Germany: Deadly Trier ramming was intentional, driver was 'intoxicated' - prosecutor

Senior public prosecutor Peter Fritzen said that the deadly Trier car-ramming incident was intentional, during a press conference on Tuesday.

Fritzen said the investigation is ongoing and the suspect, who was 'intoxicated' during the incident, is being interrogated.

"But we have no evidence that a terrorist reason, a political reason or a religious reason could have played a role," he stated.

Although the crime's motives are still unclear, the public prosecutor said that a 'psychiatric disease pattern' is possible.

"A psychiatric expert will certainly be commissioned during the mediation process to give his opinion on questions of guilt, limitation of guilt and so on," Fritzen specified, before adding that the suspect will be brought in front of the Trier District Court on Wednesday.

At least five people were killed, and several more injured, after a car drove through a pedestrian zone in Trier on Tuesday.