The 29-year-old driver - named locally as Gor H. due to Germany privacy laws - was arrested shortly after he ploughed his car into the crowds, killing the 51-year-old teacher, who has not yet been named, and injuring 14 of her students, who are believed to be aged 16 and 17, as his car twice veered onto a pavement in a popular shopping district, officials have said.
Footage shows police leading him to a black BMW and shutting him inside. Just a short distance away, his own car sits buried in the front window of a perfume shop as badly wounded people he just ran over lie on the pavement. As he is put into the car, the man turns to the man filming and says 'bitte hilf' - which translates as 'please help' -before the man responds ‘What help? You just killed two of us idiot.’
Witnesses say he drove 'very fast' towards the pavement on Tauentzienstrausse - a street lined with shops and cafes - around 10.30am Wednesday before smashing into crowds of shoppers without braking. He then rejoined the road and drove another 600ft - past Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church - before hitting the shop. One eyewitness said: 'He drove at full throttle. At no point did he slow down.'
The man tried to flee the scene, witnesses added, but was held by two passersby until police arrived and arrested him.
An open and shut case, you'd think?
Officers have refused to say whether they believe the crash was deliberate. Berlin police chief Barbara Slowik said the driver was in hospital and "at this time, we do not have conclusive evidence of a political act"
Iris Spranger, Berlin's interior affairs minister, said this evening: 'The latest evidence suggests this is a case of a mentally ill person running amok'..
'We haven't clarified everything yet,' Berlin's mayor Franziska Giffey told reporters at the scene, while an Interior Ministry spokesperson told a regular federal government news conference in Berlin it was 'too early to speculate' about what caused the incident.
When will those who tell us to let them handle it give some indication that they even know what 'it' is..?
So the Krauts will ban cars, eh? Just like the Septics will ban guns? Maybe, we ought to ban certain classes of people, and certain drugs that they take.
ReplyDelete"Maybe, we ought to ban certain classes of people, and certain drugs that they take."
ReplyDeleteIt would make far more sense...