“The latest evidence suggests that this is a case of a mentally ill person seized by amok.” This is what the Minister of the Interior of Berlin, Iris Spranger, said about the 29-year-old who threw his car yesterday (8/6) in a crowd on a shopping street in Berlin, killing a teacher and injuring 14 pedestrians.
German police have identified the perpetrator as a German of Armenian descent. The vehicle, after climbing the sidewalk twice, ended up in the window of a store and the driver was caught by passers-by and handed over to the authorities. Among the injured are small children, school students.
The fire department initially announced that 12 people were injured, six of them seriously. Then the police spoke of 14 students among the injured. The teacher who was killed was accompanying the students of a high school class, between 16 and 17 years old, to a school in the small town of Bad Arolsen in the state of Hesse in central Germany, as broadcast by the public television network of Hesse.
Last night two candles were lit at the entrance of the Kaulbach school in the city.
Posters with Turkey in the perpetrator’s car
Officials denied reports in the Bild newspaper that the driver had left a note saying what he would do inside the vehicle. According to police, posters were found relating to Turkey, which has troubled relations with Armenia.
The Bild newspaper published a photo of the driver of the vehicle at the time of his arrest. He was wearing a yellow sweater, tracksuits and red sneakers.
More than 100 men from the emergency services rushed to the scene.
Reuters photos show the small silver car Renault brand in a store whose window is broken. The scene, located on a shopping street near a McDonald’s restaurant, was cordoned off by police and a helicopter was flown over.
According to the police, shortly after the incident, the neighboring building complex Europa Center was evacuated, where a shopping center is located, in case the vehicle contained explosives.
“The federal government has certainly been informed of this horrific incident in Berlin today, it is deeply saddened and concerned. “Our thoughts are with the injured and their relatives,” said a government spokesman.
The incident evoked memories of the attack launched in 2016 by a man in the same area of Berlin, when he killed the driver of a truck and drove the heavy vehicle to a crowded Christmas market, killing 11 other people there.
Anis Amri, a Tunisian who had not been granted political asylum and had links to Islamist circles, escaped after the attack in Italy, where he was later shot dead by Italian police.
Source: News Beast
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