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The truck drove according to bystanders for the memorial church in Charlottenburg, close to the Kurfürstendam, at high speed through the christmas market. They are talking of speeds around 65 miles per hour, while there is no road in the vicinity.
The driver could, zig-zagging on the market reed. May be, he wanted as many victims.
The nationality of the arrested suspect is not yet known, let the police know.
‘Horrible’
“A hideous attack takes us out of the christmas spirit”, so responded on behalf of the German government minister Schmidt (Agriculture). “Our feelings and thoughts are with the victims. Among the dead, their families and the wounded. God has no fear, but power, love and a sound mind."
The truck with which the attack is committed, has a Polish license plate. The director could some time later be observed. The co-driver is on-the-spot death, let the police know. He has the Polish identity. How he came to an end, is unclear. From about 16.00 hours, there would be no more contact with him have been possible, reported the Berliner Zeitung. The media speculated that the man may have been raided.
Un camion vient de foncer dans un marché de Noël à #Berlin. Plusieurs blessés au sol…. Situation en cours… pic.twitter.com/ANNQphezCq— LEDOUAISIEN (@LEDOUAISIEN) December 19, 2016
‘It was dark’
A British eyewitness tells Sky News that she is on vacation in Berlin and just a glass of wine drank at a stall, when she got a hard slap was heard. She saw all the christmas lights come down and then drove the truck through the stalls. “It was completely dark.”
The tourist tells them that they lot of luck. "We had to sit down, because I have bad knees. We were sitting happened to be on a ladder away, but we saw that the place where we wine had taken has been completely destroyed."
Dutch
There are no indications that Dutch people among the victims. Various travel agencies to approach customers who are in Berlin with the question of whether they are in safety. They offer people who for the next few days a trip to the city have booked, to book or to cancel.
The threat level in the Netherlands does not change after the alleged attack. The National Coordinator Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) follows the developments closely. The attack in Berlin fits in the current threat, and had a spokesman Monday night.
We have previously municipalities already asked for attention for christmas markets and possible measures to be taken. When large events are necessary inrijbeperkende measures taken. The attack in Berlin fits in the current threat; the threat level will not go up.”
The threat level in the Netherlands is ‘substantial’. That means that the real chance is that an attack in the Netherlands takes place, but that there is no concrete evidence.
Nice
The attack is reminiscent of that in Nice last July.
There fell 86 dead when a truck rammed in public on the busy boulevard of the coastal town.
#BREAKING: Pictures from the scene after truck plows into crowded Berlin Christmas market pic.twitter.com/soJU9DpMX0— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) December 19, 2016
Germany sharp
The police in Germany recently announced additional measures around the christmas markets because of the continuing threat.
This month, two teens were fifteen and seventeen years old were arrested that an attack would have to want to commit. Also has a “religiously radicalised” a boy of twelve tried an attack with a bomb to commit at the christmas market in the German city of Ludwigshafen.
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