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Trier (dpa) - The rampage in Trier has changed the city, according to Mayor Wolfram Leibe (SPD).
"The sympathy is immense," said Leibe the German press agency a week after the fact.
Many citizens feel that they too could have been victims.
"That welds you together," said Leibe.
So far, there have been thousands of expressions of condolences on social media and 330 letters from around the world.
On December 1, a 51-year-old gunman raced through the pedestrian zone in his sports vehicle, killing five people and injuring at least 24 other people, six of them seriously.
Some are still fighting for their lives, said Leibe.
The willingness to help is great in the “small city” of Trier.
More than 420,000 euros have already been received on a donation account for victims and relatives.
"I am speechless about the great sympathy," said Leibe.
A larger memorial service is still planned.
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The mourning in Trier is still omnipresent.
Candles and lights burned for the victims at many memorial sites.
"The rampage happened in the heart of our city and directly or indirectly hit almost every citizen of this city," said the Trier bishop Stephan Ackermann.
"Such an act is burned into the collective memory of a city."
The grief and processing of this event “will accompany us for a long time - even if not as publicly visible as it is at the moment”.
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