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full screen Residents of Trier lit candles on the pedestrian street where the madness took place. The picture is from December 3, 2020. Photo: Harald Tittel/AP/TT
The 52-year-old man who killed five people and seriously injured 18 when he drove his SUV into a pedestrian street in Trier, Germany in December 2020 has been sentenced to life in prison, AP reports with reference to the German news agency DPA.
The court finds the man guilty of murder and attempted murder and orders that he be locked up in a forensic psychiatric ward.
The convicted man refused to answer the court’s questions during the trial. Experts testified that the man suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and delusions, including that he is the subject of a government conspiracy.
Among those killed was a nine-month-old infant.