German police say the driver who rammed his truck into a crowded Berlin
Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring another nearly 50 on Monday, did so intentionally. Early Tuesday,
Germany’s top security official indicated the suspect was from Pakistan
and had applied for asylum, entering the country this year—but
Berlin’s police chief later said it was unclear if they had the right
man in custody. He denied any involvement and reportedly had no blood on
his clothes. Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was “shocked, shaken,
and deeply saddened” by the news of the incident. The attacker
reportedly sped the 18-wheeler through the wooden Christmas stalls for
about 150 feet, crushing shoppers in his wake. “There is still a lot
that we don’t know about this act with sufficient certainty,” Merkel
told reporters. “But we must, as things stand, assume it was a terrorist
attack.” Berlin police wrote on Twitter on Tuesday
that investigators were “working on the assumption that the truck was
intentionally driven into the crowd at the Christmas market on
Breitscheidplatz.”
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