Amok alert near Düsseldorf!
In the city of Meerbusch, a driver triggered a large-scale operation by police and rescue services because he allegedly caused several accidents on the motorway and in the city area.
First, the young man allegedly tried to cause accidents on the motorway. Then he drove off the motorway A57 to Meerbusch and crashed into at least four cars in a residential area in a distance of only 300 metres. Because his vehicle was so badly damaged, he hijacked the cars he had crashed, threatening the drivers with knives and forcing them out of their cars.
A young geriatric nurse was also attacked, reports in shock that a black compact car crashed into her car, a man jumped out – holding a long knife.
The man had smashed a window of her car and tried to drive away with it. The woman was able to flee. However, because of the damage to her car, the man apparently only got a few metres away.
Afterwards, the man stole a bicycle from a nearby old people’s home and fled with it across a cemetery. He then threw the bicycle into a bush next to the graves, climbed over a fence and then hijacked another car. Shortly afterwards, however, he was stopped and overpowered by the police in this Audi car.
The Düsseldorf police took over the operation and, as a precaution, triggered an amok alert. The motives of the rampage driver are still completely unclear, but the police do not currently assume that the attack had a political background.