Terror attack in christmas market in Berlin

[mudas777]

Killing of any one never mind the innocents one makes it even more hurtful. Lets wait and see if he is indeed a Pakistan national and lets not jump the gun. But if he is indeed from our home land then Germany must deport this individual back and let army to execute him since Germany can't. Old lady of Germany have put her own job on line for these refugees and how much stick she is getting for it. Who ever does this sort of acts, must be taught a lesson with the same coin and let be known that its not acceptable and its a criminal to do that. Germans have opened their doors for these refugees well being they deserve better then this.

 

[Russell]

|Official Twitter feed of Berlin Police

https://twitter.com/x/status/811186629595594752

They're particularly alert - so umm that's their roundabout way of saying - yeah...we're on the lookout for the actual terrorist? Yikes

 

[Well.wisher]

De Maizière also confirms that the man who has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out the attack has denied the charges.
He speaks balochi and there's a problem understanding him .
The arrested man is from Pakistan, and arrived in Germany on 31 December 2015. He arrived in Berlin in February. The suspect spoke a dialect for which no translator could be found, the minister said.

De Maizière says he is not giving much attention to the Isis message claiming responsibility for the attack.

He confirms he will attend the vigil for the victims at 6pm in the memorial church on the square where the attack took place.

De Maizière said police will not rest until they have completed their investigation into the attack.

He urged once again for Christmas markets to remain open, but warned people to remain vigilant. He said it would be “a lovely idea to go to a Christmas market and buy a crib”.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

He was arrested but denied any involvement.
In Germany,you are innocent until proven guilty.
Why would he deny the act if he did it?
Couldnt it be that he is actually innocent?
Wait for more info before making such a statement.

Mate, I said it before. It is possible there might be no Pakistani involved. It is too early to be 100% certain and as you said innocent until proven guilty. However the fact is Pakistan has a problem with Islamist radicals. This is fact. In fact the biggest problem that is in the way of Pakistan becoming a first world country within a generation is bloody Islamist radicalizm. Just last week a mob of 1,000 charged and attacked a Ahmadi place of worship inside Pakistan and the army had to be called out to secure the situation. People get killed in Pakistan for not being Muslim, for not being the right kind of sect, not being good Muslim, not living up to what is expected of a Muslim, for two Muslims not agreeing what a Muslim is, for endangering Muslims. It's insanity.

So maybe this incident is nothing to do with Pakistan and I hope so, I really do but all that does not change the fact that Pakistan has a big problem that needs acknowledging and sorting out.

 

[Max]

Pakistani embassy should cooperate and provide legal aid if the arrested guy is Pakistani and he is denying charges,

let them first investigate, till now some are saying it was terrorist attack, some are saying its accident, some are saying Afghan, Polish, Pakistani..

 

[Well.wisher]

It's a heinous crime at best of times even more brutal at this time of year.
What's more disturbing and mind boggling is the fact that within a year of him arriving in Germany and getting refuge what made him turn into a mass murderer.
Although he is just a suspect at the moment and there's no excuse for such menace but there are a many Afghans running around with Pakistani passports....,.,

German minister says he has no record of terrorism.

 

[T-72]

would it help if they changed the title to:

German Christmas market suspect is not the 23-year-old from Pakistan: Report

lel

 

[Selim I]

Oh, if they figured that he was Pakistani, they don't have to label him as a terrorist. They don't need to investigate if he suffers from mental illness or has psychological issues.

He is a terrorist.

 

[Signalian]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...tack-suspect-named-23-year-old-asylum-seeker/

German police believe they arrested the wrong man over the Berlin terror attack and the real culprit could still be at large, a German newspaper has claimed, adding the real perpetrator could be armed and dangerous.

"We have the wrong man," an unnamed police source told Welt newspaper. "This means the situation is different. The real culprit is still armed and can commit further atrocities."

A man arrested on Monday night under suspicion of ploughing a 7-tonne truck through a Christmas market in the heart of Berlin, killing 12, was named in German media reports as Naved Baluch, a 23-year-old asylum seeker of Pakistani origin.

German media reported first that Baluch was denying responsibility for the attack and later - citing senior police sources - that he was the wrong man. This has not been officially confirmed.

Baluch was picked up about 2 kilometres (1½ miles) away from the scene of the attack in which 12 were, near the Victory Column monument.

 

[Devil Soul]

BREAKING: German Police Say, They Have the Wrong Man

 

[Devil Soul]

WELT ‏@welt 18m18 minutes ago

BREAKING: Berlin Police after #Berlinattacks: "We have the wrong man" http://to.welt.de/d9fKXpl

 

[Devil Soul]

German police believe they wrongly arrested Pakistani refugee over Berlin attack
By Reuters
Published: December 20, 2016
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German police think that the man from Pakistan who was arrested as a suspect in the attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people on Monday was not the actual perpetrator, Die Welt newspaper reported, citing senior security sources.

“We have the wrong man,” said a senior police chief. “And therefore a new situation. The true perpetrator is still armed, at large and can cause fresh damage,” the paper quoted the source as saying.

Earlier, the man who plowed a truck into a crowded Christmas market was identified as a Pakistani refugee.

German newspaper Bild cited security sources as saying the suspect in Berlin Christmas market incident was a 23-year-old from Pakistan named Naved B. He arrived in Germany a year ago. The suspect had a temporary residence permit since June 2016, German newspaper Die Welt cited a criminal police report as saying.

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The Pakistani refugee is said to have arrived in the country in February 2016. However, the suspect believed to be the driver denied involvement in the attack, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.

“He denies the act,” de Maiziere told journalists, adding that the suspect is Pakistani and had arrived in Germany on December 31, 2015, seeking asylum.

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Police said on Twitter that they had taken one suspect into custody and that another passenger from the truck had died as it crashed into people gathered around wooden huts serving mulled wine and sausages at the foot of the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church in the heart of former West Berlin. However, police said the nationality of the suspected driver, who fled the crash scene and was later arrested, was unclear.

Pictures from the scene showed Christmas decorations protruding from the smashed windscreen of the black truck. In the aftermath, it was resting lopsided on the pavement with a mangled Christmas tree beneath its wheels.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the circumstances of the crash were still unclear, adding, “I don’t want to use the word ‘attack’ yet although a lot points to that.”

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Berlin police assume truck was deliberately driven into Christmas market

Berlin police said on Tuesday that investigators assume the driver of a truck that ploughed into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others, did so intentionally in a suspected terrorist attack.

“Our investigators assume that the truck was deliberately steered into the crowd at the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz,” police said on Twitter. “All police measures related to the suspected terrorist attack at Breitscheidplatz are progressing at full steam and with the necessary diligence,” police said.

The incident evoked memories of an attack in Nice, France in July when a Tunisian-born man drove a 19-tonne truck along the beach front, mowing down people who had gathered to watch the fireworks on Bastille Day, killing 86 people. That attack was claimed by Islamic State.

US President-elect Donald Trump condemned what he called an attack, linking it to “Islamist terrorists” before German police officials had said who was responsible.

The White House on Monday condemned what it called “what appears to have been a terrorist attack.”

Germany has not in recent years suffered a large-scale attack from militants like those seen in neighboring Belgium and France.

But it was shaken by two smaller attacks in Bavaria over the summer, one on a train near Wuerzburg and another at a music festival in Ansbach that wounded 20 people. Both were claimed by Islamic State.

And government officials have said the country, which accepted nearly 900,000 migrants last year, many from the war-torn Middle East, lies in the “crosshairs of terrorism.”

In mid-October, police arrested a Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack on an airport in Berlin. The 22-year-old man committed suicide in prison shortly after his arrest.

A government spokesperson said Chancellor Angela Merkel was briefed on the situation by de Maiziere and the Berlin mayor. Police said there were no indications of further dangerous situations in the area and urged people to stay away from the scene.

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“I’m deeply shaken about the horrible news of what occurred at the memorial church in Berlin,” Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday condemned the suspected mass terror attack. Extending his heartfelt condolences to the government and people of Germany, PM Nawaz said, “Pakistanis share the grief of German people and stand by them in this painful time. Terrorism is our common enemy and the world needs to put up a joint fight against this menace.”
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Berlin market attack: driver still at large after "wrong man arrested"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...tack-suspect-named-23-year-old-asylum-seeker/

 

[!eon]

They are still not sure if the man they have captured is real driver.
It's also not clear whether the captured man is Pakistani or Afghani. He was probably born to Afghan refugee family in Pakistan.
Considering the present day situation, it's possible that they just captured a brown, Arab looking man as culprit and real one skipped.

 

[Areesh]

No Pakistani involved??

Bharat main sog ka saman. Har ghar sai choriyaan tootnai ki awazain.

 

[damm1t]

What are you on about. There actually is LESS terrorism in Europe now, then the was e.g. the 1970s and 1980s. "We"in Europe (you know, that EU thingy the Turkey has wanted to join for decades) actually have a fairly good understanding of what terror is from those days.

Less terrorism than back 70's or 80's doesnt mean it will not increase dramatically in 2017 or next few years, Europe has never had continiously terrorism so don't tell me bullshit. I don't talk about IRA or ETA, I mean whole continent wide terrorism. By the way that EU thingy has no support in the public, shortly Turks give no shit about EU, nothing more than a political tool.