The prosecutor stated that the driver who ran into a crowd of people in Mannheim had a criminal record.

The man who was driving the car that drove into a crowd of people had a previous criminal record and also regularly committed minor offenses. This was reported on March 3 by the DPA agency.

"The culprit of the fatal accident in Mannheim was well known to the police. According to Mannheim prosecutor Romeo Schussler, there are several previous convictions that were handed down long ago. We are talking about an attack for which he served a short prison sentence more than ten years ago, as well as drunk driving," the news portal notes href="https://www.ka-news.de/nachrichten/baden-wuerttemberg/taeter-von-mannheim-hatte-vorstrafenregister-art-3293190">ka-news.de.

The most recent recorded offense committed by a driver is hate speech, committed in 2018. He posted a comment on Facebook (owned by Meta Corporation, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation), for which he was sentenced to a fine.

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There are dead and wounded

February 3 as a result hitting people with a car in the center of Mannheim, Germany дваTwo people were killed and several were seriously injured. On the same day, the Russian Consulate General in Germany announced that уточняет the presence of Russians among the victims.