A 53 -year -old man was arrested on Monday after a car will run over the crowd during the parade for victory in the Premier League of Liverpool FC And leave several injured, police said.
An AFP journalist saw at least four people being evacuated in stretchers in this city in northern England.
Police was contacted shortly after 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m.) “after reports of a collision between a car and several pedestrians“In the city center. A man was arrested, according to the police.
He Liverpool FC He had organized a parade in which hundreds of people participated to celebrate his victory in the Premier League, after the dispute on Sunday of the 38th and last day of the championship.
The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, expressed his dismay after the outrage.
“Liverpool scenes are frightening – My thoughts are with the injured or affected, “he wrote in X, thanking emergency services for their rapid response.
A witness cited by the British agency Pa said to have “seen people lying on the ground, unconscious people.”
“It was horrible,” said this witness, Harry Rashid, 48, who attended the parade with his two daughters and his wife.
Rashid saw how the car, which was “extremely fast,” ran over the crowd.
Photos taken after the accident show police cords along the road, with numerous ambulances and a fire truck also present in the place.
– “In shock state” –
Another witness affirmed to the Sky News chain, in statements collected by the PA agency, which “was very noisy, people were desperate.”
“People started running after the driver and tried to break the car. The police did everything possible to block them and remove people,” he added.
Rinaldi explained that “people stopped the car, were hitting the window and trying to talk to the driver.”
“People were very angry and in a state of shock, and then the police intervened,” he added.
The police called for calm and said that the arrested man was “a 53 -year -old British white man of the Liverpool area.”
“Broad investigations are being carried out to establish the circumstances that led to the outrage,” added a police spokesman.
A spokesman for the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) ambulance service pointed out that his unit was “evaluating the situation and working with other members of emergency services“
“Our priority is to ensure that people receive medical attention they need as quickly as possible,” he added.
The Egyptian Mohamed Salah and the Dutch Virgil Van Dijk headed the celebrations with the rest of the players of the Liverpool squad in a parade on the discovered bus, which passed just before the outrage occurred.
Red smoke clouds of flares accompanied the festive route of the players, which took four hours to travel the 16 kilometers of journey.
Liverpool got its twentieth English League title almost a month ago, when there were four days to dispute.
However, the trophy was delivered to them on Sunday after the last day he tied (1-1) at his Anfield stadium against Crystal Palace.
The history of football in Liverpool has been marked by tragedy.
In 1985, 39 fans, mostly Italians, died when a wall collapsed in the midst of disturbances between Liverpool and Juventus followers at the Heys Stadium, in Brussels.
In 1989, 97 Liverpool fans died crushed in a stadium during a match in Sheffield.