Attack victims remembered

HUNDREDS of people took part in a ceremony to commemorate the victims of a car-ramming attack in the German city of Trier yesterday.

Mourners lit candles and laid flowers at the Porta Nigra, a Roman-era gate to the south-western city not far from where a driver hit several people in a pedestrianised zone on Tuesday.

Five people were killed, including a 9-week-old baby, and 14 were injured.

“Trier is mourning, Trier is hurting, but Trier is not giving up,” mayor Wolfram Leibe said.

He laid a wreath at the city landmark with Malu Dreyer, premier of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. “They will have to carry the consequences of those four deadly minutes with them for a whole lifetime,” he added.

The suspect is a 51-year-old German man.

Judicial authorities still have to decide whether to remand him in custody or place him in a closed psychiatric institution.

PEOPLE attend a ceremony for the victims of a fatal car incident at Porta Nigra in Trier, Germany. According to reports, five people died, including a 9-week-old baby, and at least 15 were injured after a car ploughed into pedestrians on Tuesday. Police arrested the driver, a 51-year-old local man, who was found to have drunk a significant amount of alcohol.