Il sindaco incontra il tassista che ha contribuito a fermare l’attacco di Mannheim (traduzione nei commenti)

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Translation:

It is a shy smile. The taxi driver is clearly uncomfortable with so much attention. He does not want to be the center of attention. But that is exactly what he is doing on this Wednesday afternoon and has been doing all along.

A. Muhammad, who does not want his full name published for security reasons, is sitting at a very long table in the Mannheim town hall. In front of him are several microphones and even more journalists. He wants to thank “Mr. Muhammad” from the bottom of his heart, says Christian Specht, CDU mayor of Mannheim, and leans very close to his guest, almost as if he wants to protect him. He may have saved lives with his presence of mind and courage.

A. Muhammad is a “hero,” say passers-by outside in the pedestrian zone. He is “a doer by nature,” say his taxi colleagues. “Someone who is there when you need him.”

A. Muhammad, 48 years old, born in Pakistan, long since a German, stopped the suspected rampage driver in Mannheim on Shrove Monday. And that’s how he described it at the press conference on Wednesday.

“Go, go,” he shouted at the passers-by

On Monday afternoon, he was waiting for customers at the taxi stand when he saw a Ford with a dented front racing down the pedestrian zone. He got into his car, stepped on the gas and gave chase. “I honked the whole time, with the window down,” says Muhammad. “Go, go,” he shouted at the passers-by and called the police on the hands-free system in the taxi. Images of other terrible rampages flashed through his mind, Magdeburg, Munich, all the victims.

He didn’t want to let the man get away, says Muhammad in a quiet voice, serious in tone. He is talking more to himself than to the journalists. His back is bent, he finds it difficult to tell what he experienced. Only afterwards did he understand how close it was, what could have happened in those minutes of the chase.

Being from Pakistan it makes me happy we have sent our good bunch to Germany, hoping the Germans appreciate it 🙂