A driver drove into a crowd in the German city of Leipzig on Monday. At least two people were killed and more than twenty others were injured. This is what the mayor of Leipzig, Burkhard Jung, said to the local newspaper, among others Leipziger Volkszeitung.
The car drove through a pedestrian area on Grimmaische Straße, in the city center. It is still unclear whether this was intentional or an accident. The police of Saxony, the state in eastern Germany that includes Leipzig, reports on social media that the car continued driving after the incident. The driver has now been arrested.
This means that “immediate danger” for the residents of Leipzig has passed, says Mayor Jung. “We are deeply saddened,” he says. “All I can do now is express my condolences to the families of the victims.” In his Germany, motorists have more often driven into large groups of people in recent years. This happened in 2025 at a demonstration in Munich, in 2024 and 2016 at Christmas markets in Magdeburg and Berlin respectively.
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