Police later released a video of the suspect being questioned about the crash. "I wanted to brake, I wanted to let someone through," he says, visibly upset. "I switched off for a second and hit the accelerator.... then I saw the people." He says he fled because he thought the crowd of people "were going to kill" him. "There were so many of them," he adds. He says he had about two hours of sleep before driving for 20 hours. The suspect, who says he is a teetotaller, says the crash was accidental.
'Deliberate' crash But one witness, who was across the road at the time of the crash, questioned this. "I have the feeling that he did it deliberately because he was in the traffic jam with the cars going really slowly," said Viktoria Geranovich. "How could he lose control of the wheel, push the gas and drive into the crowds?" She said "mostly girls" were knocked down, but people rushed to help and the ambulance arrived quickly. "Thank god everything went well. It's scary that this happened in the very centre."
From the BBC News site.Police later released a video of the suspect being questioned about the crash. "I wanted to brake, I wanted to let someone through," he says, visibly upset. "I switched off for a second and hit the accelerator.... then I saw th