Berlin Christmas market attack suspect a refugee, security sources say
Yesterday was a tough news day, especially for the holiday season, with a Russian ambassador gunned down in Turkey. And there was violence in Germany as well.
CNN reports that the man suspected of deliberately ramming a large truck into a Christmas market in Berlin yesterday is a refugee from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, according to two German intelligence officials and a police official. The sources said the suspect in Monday evening’s attack, which killed 12 people and injured dozens more, arrived in Passau, a city on Germany’s border with Austria, on December 31, 2015, after traveling through the Balkans.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a press conference on Tuesday saying it would be “especially disgusting” if the suspect turned out to have been given asylum in Germany. The incident is being investigated as a possible act of terrorism.
UPDATE Dec. 21: The asylum seeker originally a suspect in the Berlin market violence was released for lack of evidence.
KJ
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