Man who drove into pedestrians in Berlin convicted of murder
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FILE - A covered body, foreground, lies on the street after a car crashed into a crowd of people in central Berlin, Germany, on June 8, 2022. A German court has convicted a 30-year-old man who drove into groups of pedestrians in Berlin last year of one count of murder and 16 counts of attempted murder, ordering him to be permanently held in a psychiatric hospital. The Berlin regional court concluded that the driver, a German citizen born in Armenia, was in a psychotic state when he drove onto the sidewalk in a popular shopping district in the west of the capital in June last year, killing a teacher and injuring eleven students on a school trip. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) (Michael Sohn, Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
BERLIN – A German court on Friday convicted a 30-year-old man who drove into groups of pedestrians in Berlin last year of one count of murder and 16 counts of attempted murder, ordering him to be permanently held in a psychiatric hospital.
The Berlin regional court concluded that the driver, a German citizen born in Armenia, was in a psychotic state when he drove onto the sidewalk in a popular shopping district in the west of the capital in June, killing a teacher and injuring eleven students on a school trip. A pregnant woman, a teenage girl and two men were also injured.
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The driver was detained by passers-by before being arrested by police.
The court also banned the man from driving for life.
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