Nine months after a fatal rampage in Mannheim, a 40-year-old German man from Ludwigshafen has been convicted of murder and attempted murder. The Mannheim Regional Court sentenced him to life imprisonment and ordered his indefinite placement in a psychiatric hospital. The incident occurred on Rosenmontag in early March, when the accused intentionally drove his car into pedestrians in Mannheim’s city center. An 83-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man died, and several others sustained injuries, some severe. The chief public prosecutor emphasized that the driver exploited the ‘surprise element’ during the act. The defense argued that the accused was in a ‘spiritual crisis’ and had initially planned the attack in Offenbach, only spontaneously relocating it to Mannheim. A taxi driver eventually brought the rampage to a halt.

Source: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/mannheimer-amokfahrer-soll-lebenslang-in-psychiatrie-100.html