Man who drove into German carnival parade wasn't drunk - prosecutors

People react at the scene after a car ploughed into a carnival parade injuring several people in Volkmarsen, Germany, on February 24 2020.
People react at the scene after a car ploughed into a carnival parade injuring several people in Volkmarsen, Germany, on February 24 2020.
Image: Elmar Schulten/Waldeckische Landeszeitung via REUTERS

The driver of a car that ploughed into a carnival parade in the German town of Volkmarsen on Monday was not drunk but it is not yet clear whether he took drugs, German prosecutors said.

Focus magazine had first reported a spokesman for state prosecutors as saying that.

Several German media outlets, including public broadcaster ZDF, reported that the man was believed to have been under the influence of alcohol or possibly drugs but investigators have so far declined to confirm this. (Reporting by Hans Seidenstuecker Writing by Michelle Martin Editing by Scot W. Stevenson)


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