{"id":3942,"date":"2026-05-04T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:13:00","slug":"tragedy-in-leipzig-car-carries-off-a-crowd-dead-and-injured-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3942","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy in Leipzig: car carries off a crowd &#8211; Dead and injured (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">A tragic civilian hit-and-run incident in <b>Leipzig<\/b> has put <b>German authorities<\/b> on alert as they investigate the cause of the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\"><b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Scenes of horror<\/b> unfolded Monday afternoon in central <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"67\">Leipzig<\/b> when a <b>vehicle<\/b> crashed into pedestrians, leaving behind <b>two dead<\/b> and at least <b>two seriously injured<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">According to broadcaster <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"226\">MDR<\/b>, police confirmed the incident in eastern <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"280\">Germany<\/b>, but did not provide further details about the driver&#8217;s motives.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: Injuries reported after a car rammed into pedestrians in the city center of Leipzig, Germany. pic.twitter.com\/8R9xu0o9hh<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; PM Breaking News (@PMBreakingNews) May 4, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The <b>testimonies<\/b> from the scene of the <b>attack<\/b>, broadcast by <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"65\">Radio Leipzig<\/b>, describe a shocking picture: A <b data-path-to-node=\"4,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"4\">Volkswagen brand SUV<\/b> was driving at breakneck speed on Grimmaische Stra\u00dfe. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a person on the <b data-path-to-node=\"4,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"60\">roof of the vehicle<\/b>. There are unconfirmed reports of a parallel <b data-path-to-node=\"4,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"50\">stabbing<\/b> incident.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">The newspaper <b data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"12\">BILD<\/b> confirms the high speed of the attacker, while authorities have cordoned off the area, where bodies covered in sheets can be seen. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea ALERTE INFO | Une voiture a fonc\u00e9 dans la foule \u00e0 Leipzig. Il y aurait de nombreuses bless\u00e9s et deux morts, selon la presse locale. (BILD) pic.twitter.com\/I7M4AOhDE1<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Cerfia (@CerfiaFR) May 4, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">This incident adds to a string of similar <b data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"216\">car attacks<\/b> that have rocked Germany in recent years, including:<\/p>\n<ol data-path-to-node=\"6\">\n<li>The bloody attack at the <b data-path-to-node=\"6,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"51\">Berlin Christmas market<\/b> in <b>2016<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>The corresponding strike in <b data-path-to-node=\"6,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"26\">Magdeburg<\/b> in <b>2024<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>The dragging of <b data-path-to-node=\"6,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"38\">ver.di<\/b> in <b>Monacho<\/b> in early <b>2025<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">Leipzig police continue their <b>investigations<\/b> to determine whether this is a <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"82\">terrorist act<\/b>, a criminal act or an accident, while the local community remains frozen in the face of this new wave of violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tragic civilian hit-and-run incident in Leipzig has put German authorities on alert as they investigate the cause of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}