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Merkel: ‘We Must Assume’ Attack on Berlin Christmas Market Was Terrorism
Police said the deceased truck driver was a Polish citizen and was not controlling the vehicle when it drove into the market.
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The Israeli consul general is on her way to the hospital to see him, the ministry reported.
Twelve people were killed and 48 were injured after a truck plowed into a crowd in the German capital on Monday.
Police now say that after finding “immigration documents” in the vehicle that was used in the attack, they now have a new suspect, who they’re identified as Anis Amri, though they note he has used aliases in the past.
Among the dead was a passenger in the truck, who succumbed as paramedics treated him, Berlin police spokesman Winfried Wenzel said.
Germany’s chief federal prosecutor told lawmakers “this Tunisian is a solid lead, his wallet was found in the cab of the truck, but that it’s not clear that he was also the perpetrator”, said Burkhard Lischka of the Social Democrats, the junior governing party.
German president Joachim Gauck, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, and French president Francois Hollande were among those who also voiced condolences to families of the victims.
Trump said in a statement that the Islamic State group “and other Islamist terrorists continually slaughter Christians in their communities and places of worship as part of their global jihad”.
The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs urged Americans in Berlin to inform their families of their safety and to stay away from the site of the attack.
“The executor of the operation in Berlin is a soldier of the Islamic State and he executed the operation in response to calls to target nationals of the coalition countries”, The IS Amaq news agency announced.
“This is a suspect, not necessarily the perpetrator”, Thomas de Maiziere told reporters Wednesday.
Chancellor Merkel said she was “shocked and very saddened” by the attack but added “we don’t want to live with fear of evil”.
The federal public prosecutor’s office, which is leading the terror investigation, could not immediately be reached for comment.
Already, right-wing opponents of Merkel’s goodwill toward refugees fleeing the Middle East have pounced on the German chancellor’s open-door policy.
Die Welt’s Washington correspondent wrote on Twitter that according to his colleagues, Berlin authorities had in recent days received information about possible attack against Christmas markets.
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Those attacks, and two others unrelated to Islamic extremism in the same weeklong period, helped stoke tensions in Germany over the arrival a year ago of 890,000 migrants. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack, the worst in Germany since the end of the leftist Red Army Faction wave of terror that ended in the early 1990s.