Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Tuesday the germans not to let themselves be paralysed by fear. Photo: Maurizio Gambarini/AP
BERLIN Late on Tuesday was declared the suspected offender on the loose. According to the police investigation has not confirmed the suspicions against the 23-year-old pakistaniern.
It means that the offender is on the run, likely armed and desperate. The chief of police of Berlin, Klaus Kandt, called on the population to be vigilant.
” We are very much concerned, said at a press conference German rikskriminalpolisens manager Holger Münch and admitted that the police did not know if it was one or multiple perpetrators.
Polispådraget is solid. At the railway stations and the airports, patrolling police officers with automatic weapons and bulletproof vests. "We have mobilised all available resources", quoted police sources in the newspaper Picture. The public has betts for help, but be warned that to act on their own.
A ghostly atmosphere rested throughout the day over the site of the terror attack in the heart of west Berlin. People laid down flowers at the bombed-out memorial Church, which rises as a memento of the war and destruction.
” It feels uncomfortable to be here. But I’m not afraid, ” said Christian Rath, who works at an exchange bureau right next to the christmas market at Breitscheidplatz.
luckily, he came away from work a quarter of an hour before the disaster on Monday night. Roberto Montanari, experienced the terror attack, however, at close range.
” I heard the truck and people screaming. And so a shot as the police fired and who got the driver to stop the truck. Otherwise, had it only continued to mow down the people.
Photo: Bernd von Jutrczenka/AP
Roberto Montanari has a stall at the christmas market tells us that he saw blood and body parts on the street. A dying colleague, low wedged under the truck, without legs.
” Then called my 14-year-old daughter who followed the reporting on tv. She said: I just wanted to know that you are alive.
Large parts of the christmas market was on Tuesday not blocked but the stalls were fewer. In the distance you could see the heavy polskskyltade trucks with the crushed windscreen which has been used as a deadly weapon.
the People stood in clusters and discussed it quietly. "We’ll have to get used to the fact that this can happen anytime and anywhere. But we can’t go around and be afraid or suspicious all the time," said Natalie Alkan-Töpfer who work in the in the immediate vicinity of the site for a month.
in honor Of the victims flagged all official buildings are at half mast. In the afternoon arrived, Angela Merkel, together with Berlin’s mayor and several ministers, to the place where the 12 people killed and at least 48 people have been injured, of which 18 are reported to have life-threatening injuries.
Prior to that, she was in an emotionally charged speech to the German nation, urged the population not to allow terror to dictate their daily lives. "We do not and we will not cease to go to the christmas markets," she said. "We must not allow that we are hamstrung by the fear of evil."
Photo: Markus Schreiber/AP
Church in Berlin after a series of crimes in recent times committed by refugees or EU-migrants. The germans have reacted strongly on a case a couple of weeks ago when a Bulgarian brutally kicked a woman in a tunnelbanetrappa and then in all the ro went from there.
In another case, the minor afghan refugee suspected of rape and murder in Germany. He had already been sentenced to ten years in prison for attempted manslaughter in Greece, but released in an amnesty, and then fled to Germany.
"Germany is no longer safe", said on Tuesday Most Petry from the right-wing populist AfD, which paints the flow of refugees as a threat to the safety of the country and now hope on the tailwind of the economic liberal stance of the next autumn.
Merkel stands for "limitless freedom" which is apparently used by criminals and terrorists, she wrote on twitter under the headline "grief and anger".
central organization for muslims in Germany, ZMD, explained that it will "do everything in our power to prevent panic, hatred and conflict between ethnic groups and religions are allowed to grow".
– In this difficult time we stand firm and in solidarity in our country, ” said Aiman Azyek, the so-called recommended by the cc chairman.
Several German politicians warned on Tuesday to underestimate the danger emanating from terrorists.
– We find ourselves in a state of war, declared Klaus Bouillon, the christian democratic president of the state group of the interior ministers. Many do not want to believe it, ” he said. But it is useless to turn a blind eye to the facts.
He warned of new terrorist attacks and explained that the ministers of the interior taken several decisions for enhancing the security of the country. Among other things, all polispatruller be equipped with automatic rifles and wear bullet-proof vests.
Before new year’s eve is reinforced säkerhetspådraget in the whole country. Municipalities and the provinces invited to examine if it is possible to put up speed humps on streets that lead to the big events. However, according to the organizers no plans to stop the big nyårsfesten at the Brandenburg Gate with thousands of participants.
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