Man charged with attempted murder after car driven into crowd at carnival

The Prosecutor’s Office in Frankfurt has brought charges against a 30-year-old German man on suspicion of attempted murder (Uwe Zucchi/dpa via AP, file)

A German man has been charged with 91 counts of attempted murder for allegedly driving his car into a crowd at a carnival parade earlier this year.

The 30-year-old, whose name has not been released in line with German privacy laws, also faces 90 counts of causing bodily harm and other lesser crimes in the town of Volkmarsen in central Germany.