leipzig · DE
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Two people were killed and six injured on 4 May 2026 when a man drove a car several hundred metres through the pedestrian zone in the centre of Leipzig, striking a number of people. A 63-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man died. The six injured were aged between 21 and 87, two of them seriously. The driver brought the car to a stop himself and allowed himself to be arrested without resistance. He was initially placed in a psychiatric hospital. On 28 August 2026, nearly four months after the attack, the public prosecutor's office charged the 33-year-old German with two counts of murder and 85 counts of attempted murder, together with 91 counts of serious dangerous interference with road traffic. The higher number of attempted-murder counts reflects everyone the car was driven at along the route, not only those it struck. The Regional Court in Leipzig has still to decide whether to admit the indictment and when any trial might begin. Because a provisional written forensic-psychiatric opinion found no indication of diminished criminal responsibility, the prosecution applied to lift the psychiatric placement and for an arrest warrant. Investigators reported that the accused had been a voluntary psychiatric inpatient until his discharge at the end of April, days before the attack, and that he was already known to police in connection with threats and offences against personal honour in his social circle. No information was given about the background or motive. Investigators had previously said there was no indication of a political or religious motive.
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- incident_date corrected from the article publication date 2026-08-28 to 2026-05-04, the date of the attack given by both sources. A victims[] list of two was added and judicial_status raised from alleged to charged. slug updated to match; filename left unchanged.