Monday evening in a suspected terror attack, a truck sped through a pedestrian street between wooden Christmas stalls for more than 150 feet, crushing people beneath its wheels. At least 12 people were dead and more than 50 are injured in this brutal act.
The suspected driver of a truck that ploughed into the Berlin Christmas market and that killed 12 people was a 23-year old migrant Muslim from Pakistan, a German security source said.
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“There is much to suggest [a terror attack],” Germany’s federal minister of the interior, Thomas de Maziere said.
Police have confirmed that there were two men in the truck’s cab, the one in the passenger seat, seemed to be a Polish national, was found dead, while the driver fled the scene. A man was later arrested less than a mile from the scene, around the Siegessäule, or Victory Column. “We are currently checking whether this is the driver,” police said.
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“Some of the victims are fairground people that we’ve known for years. The Memorial Church is a place of commemoration and peace,” the shocked minister said.
“I feel a real sadness,” he said. “I think logically it must be a terror attack, but I don’t understand why. Germany is the one country that is always welcoming, that opens its borders to people and gives them flats and jobs,” one man, named Feras said.
Now he’s worried “many things will change,” he said, adding calmly, “I hope it’s not a Arab who did this, and that I’ll have to hide then.”
By Premji
