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[Germany] Vehicle Ploughs Into Crowd.
#1
Off we go again...?



Quote:Berlin: At least one dead and around 30 injured after car drives into crowd

A man believed to be the driver of the vehicle has been detained, Berlin police said.

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'At least one person has died and around 30 others injured after a car drove into a crowd in western Berlin before smashing through a shop window,
emergency services say. A man believed to be the driver of the vehicle has been detained, police said.

It is unclear whether the incident was an accident or the driver had intentionally driven into the crowd, Berlin police spokesman Martin Dams added, in a
district of the German capital popular with tourists and shoppers. The man had been driving a small Renault car, Germany's Bild newspaper reported.

According to witnesses, he initially ran away and was stopped and handed over to police, it added. Footage of the scene showed the silver car had crashed
into the window display of a department store. The fire service said around 30 people were injured in the incident - five with life-threatening injures.


Blankets covered what appeared to be a body in a cordoned-off area guarded by police. Reporting from the scene, Sky's Europe correspondent Siobhan
Robbins said the car went down the street and then hit a group of people, went back on to the road, mounted the kerb again before crashing into a shop.
It took place on Rankestrasse, near the main shopping district's Breitscheidplatz, the scene of the 2016 Christmas market attack in which 11 people were
killed.

Actor John Barrowman, who was at the scene with his husband Scott Gill, told Sky News he saw "a dead person in the middle of the road, covered up".
"The person came on the pavement by the Levi store and the bank, then drove onto the street, hit the person and killed them in the street, then came
back onto the kerb, went down the kerb, through the cafe area and then into the storefront," he said.

"How horrible that this morning these people got up to just go through a regular day, they were going through their daily business. I mean we were
shopping, but if you think if we'd have come out of that store one minute earlier..."He said: "We are no experts but this looks intentional - by the way
the car went on the pavement." "There were chairs and tables smashed on the pavement - just a trail of destruction," said Mr Gill, a British architect.
"You could see the car had zig-zagged on and off the pavement on the way down."

"For the first 10-20 minutes it was just sheer chaos," he added. "We walked right through it without really realising what was happening."
"We are quite shocked," added Barrowman, fighting back tears. "To see people hurt, people who were just innocent and the senseless destruction by
whoever has caused this. "Whoever has done this is a horrible, horrible person... it is just a vicious thing to do."

"We think we have witnessed a terrorist attack here in Berlin," he tweeted earlier.
"We've seen a car that came down the road and ended up in a storefront covering three city blocks. It's pretty horrific."
"There are police behind us, there are other police cars coming. There's helicopters coming in. This is bad. This is serious," he continued in video
messages posted on social media. "There are hundreds of emergency services that are in the area, blocking city block after city block, off.
The cordon keeps expanding."...'
Sky News:


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#2
Let me guess the driver was Sunni or Shia...my bet is Sunni
#3
(06-08-2022, 12:28 PM)BIAD Wrote: Off we go again...?



Quote:Berlin: At least one dead and around 30 injured after car drives into crowd

A man believed to be the driver of the vehicle has been detained, Berlin police said.

[Image: attachment.php?aid=11510]

'At least one person has died and around 30 others injured after a car drove into a crowd in western Berlin before smashing through a shop window,
emergency services say. ...

...The man had been driving a small Renault car

Sky News:

Were the people wearing their masks?

I suppose it is a good thing the driver didn't have an SUV.


"Good judgment comes from experience...
Experience...? Well, that comes from poor judgment."
~ Dean Martin ~




#4
I do hope this was just an accident, but something tells me that it probably isn't. 

They take away assault rifles or others guns, and I have a feeling that we will be seeing more of these instead of mass shootings. People will find a way to kill one another.
#5
We were taught in Offensive Driving School that an automobile in the right hands is far more dangerous than a machine gun.

When mass murder of this nature becomes the primary means of crazy Stateside I can hear the mantra already: It takes a good guy with a car to stop a bad guy with a car.

Why the media is allowed to promote these tragedies eludes me.  I'm sure they can see it promotes mass murder ... instills it in the mind of the next perp who hates his life and society.

A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. -Michael Meade
#6
(06-08-2022, 01:27 PM)Snarl Wrote: A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. -Michael Meade

I wonder she if lived in the same village and was a friend of billary.
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#7
Aw c'mon now. Why all the hate?

Obviously it was the car at fault. Like the one here in the states last Christmas. 

Poor dude inside was there through no fault of his own. He woke up and his car was running down old ladies and children autonomously. He just happened to be in the driver seat.
#8
Do you get the feeling all this carnage is highly coordinated? I do.
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#9
(06-09-2022, 12:06 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Do you get the feeling all this carnage is highly coordinated? I do.

It certainly seems like it, even if one accepts the narrative that those who commit these acts are just randomly choosing
their victims. It seems 'mental health' is now a major contributor and not a certain type of ideology.
tinysure


Quote:Germany: Car drives into crowd in Berlin, 1 dead

Police have detained a 29-year-old after he allegedly drove a car into a group of pedestrians in western Berlin.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz described the incident as a "cruel rampage."...


And as @"Abnarty" suggested...



Quote:'... A vehicle struck a crowd of people in a popular shopping area in Berlin's Charlottenburg neighborhood on Wednesday.
Authorities said one person died, 14 others were injured — several of them critically. The suspected driver is now in police custody.
The state interior minister said in a statement shared on Twitter that the suspect had psychological problems...'
tinywondering




Quote:'...Earlier, German news agency DPA and the Bild mass-circulation daily reported that police had found a "confession letter" in the
suspect's car. However, a police spokesman contacted by DW said they had no knowledge of such a letter.
He also said that most of the people injured were students visiting from the central German state of Hesse.

"This is the group he drove into," the officer said.
When asked about a possible motive, police said that the investigation was "still open and there are no conclusive results yet."
Separately, the interior minister for the city-state of Berlin said that "placards" and "writing" were said to have been found inside the car.

What happened during the crash?
The incident happened around 10:30 a.m. local time (0830 UTC) on the street of Tauentzienstrasse near the popular Kurfürstendamm shopping
boulevard in western Berlin. According to witnesses, the man drove his sister's Renault vehicle onto the sidewalk, then back on the road, until finally
crashing into a shop window some 200 meters (110 yards) down the street.

DW reporter Joel Dullroy, who was on the scene, said those who were injured appeared to be "young people." Dozens of emergency personnel
responded to the incident and were investigating the site. "This is a very busy shopping area, it's a very busy time in Berlin with lots of tourists here,"
Dullroy said. "It's actually very lucky that there weren't more people injured given the number of people who were out and about shopping here."

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz shared his sympathies after the incident.
"The cruel rampage on Tauentzienstrasse leaves me deeply saddened," he wrote on Twitter.
"The trip of a Hesse school class to Berlin has ended in a nightmare. Our thoughts are with the relatives of the dead and the injured, including many
children. I wish them all a speedy recovery."

What do eyewitnesses say?
A local restaurant owner told the Berliner Zeitung daily that he heard a crash and then saw the car speeding towards him.
He said that the Renault had "two people lying on the hood, and (the driver) just kept driving." The witness managed to jump out of the way and into
one of the stores on the street. "If I hadn't done it, I would not be standing here right now," he told the paper.

Another witness, who identified himself as Ferhad, described how passers-by managed to prevent the driver from escaping after he crashed the car.
"He got out right away and tried to escape," he told the Berliner Zeitung, adding that one onlooker managed to trip the assailant.
"He was completely out of it," according to the eyewitness. "He kept trying to get up and keep running." The man managed to break free and move a
short distance before being captured once again, with passers-by holding him up against a wall until the police arrived.

Who was injured?
On Wednesday evening, officials released further information about those who were struck by the car.
The person who lost her life at the scene has been identified as a schoolteacher from Hesse, said Berlin Interior Minister Iris Spranger.
A total of 14 school students sustained injuries, authorities said "Their relatives have been informed and are being cared for," police said in a tweet.
Police had declined to release information about those who were injured for several hours, saying the victims' families needed to be reached first.

What do we know about the driver?
Authorities said the suspected driver was detained by passers-by before officers arrived on the scene. Police said the suspected driver was a 29-year-old
German-Armenian living in Berlin. Berlin police spokesman Martin Dams said it was unclear whether the incident was the result of an accident or whether
the driver had intentionally driven into the crowd.

"They are very keen to stress that they are unclear on the potential motive or the cause. They did point out there have been accidents in the past year here
in Berlin involving people having medical emergencies and running cars onto pavements," DW's Joel Dullroy reported.

Officials 'deeply affected' by news of crash
Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said she was "deeply affected by the incident" and was closely watching developments.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said that the body's "thoughts are with the loved ones of the person killed and with all the survivors."

The incident took place close to the scene of a fatal attack on December 19, 2016, when Islamist extremist Anis Amri hijacked a truck, killed the driver
and then plowed it into a crowded Christmas market in Breitscheidplatz. The attack killed 11 people and injured dozens of others...'

DW.com


Why stick that bit on the end...? Is it relevant?
minusculethinking
Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe. 
#10
(06-09-2022, 10:07 AM)BIAD Wrote: ...
Quote:'...Earlier, German news agency DPA and the Bild mass-circulation daily reported that police had found a "confession letter" in the
suspect's car. However, a police spokesman contacted by DW said they had no knowledge of such a letter.
He also said that most of the people injured were students visiting from the central German state of Hesse.

"This is the group he drove into," the officer said.
When asked about a possible motive, police said that the investigation was "still open and there are no conclusive results yet."
Separately, the interior minister for the city-state of Berlin said that "placards" and "writing" were said to have been found inside the car.

What happened during the crash?
The incident happened around 10:30 a.m. local time (0830 UTC) on the street of Tauentzienstrasse near the popular Kurfürstendamm shopping
boulevard in western Berlin. According to witnesses, the man drove his sister's Renault vehicle onto the sidewalk, then back on the road, until finally
crashing into a shop window some 200 meters (110 yards) down the street.

DW reporter Joel Dullroy, who was on the scene, said those who were injured appeared to be "young people." Dozens of emergency personnel
responded to the incident and were investigating the site. "This is a very busy shopping area, it's a very busy time in Berlin with lots of tourists here,"
Dullroy said. "It's actually very lucky that there weren't more people injured given the number of people who were out and about shopping here."

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz shared his sympathies after the incident.
"The cruel rampage on Tauentzienstrasse leaves me deeply saddened," he wrote on Twitter.
"The trip of a Hesse school class to Berlin has ended in a nightmare. Our thoughts are with the relatives of the dead and the injured, including many
children. I wish them all a speedy recovery."

What do eyewitnesses say?
A local restaurant owner told the Berliner Zeitung daily that he heard a crash and then saw the car speeding towards him.
He said that the Renault had "two people lying on the hood, and (the driver) just kept driving." The witness managed to jump out of the way and into
one of the stores on the street. "If I hadn't done it, I would not be standing here right now," he told the paper.

Another witness, who identified himself as Ferhad, described how passers-by managed to prevent the driver from escaping after he crashed the car.
"He got out right away and tried to escape," he told the Berliner Zeitung, adding that one onlooker managed to trip the assailant.
"He was completely out of it," according to the eyewitness. "He kept trying to get up and keep running." The man managed to break free and move a
short distance before being captured once again, with passers-by holding him up against a wall until the police arrived.

Who was injured?
On Wednesday evening, officials released further information about those who were struck by the car.
The person who lost her life at the scene has been identified as a schoolteacher from Hesse, said Berlin Interior Minister Iris Spranger.
A total of 14 school students sustained injuries, authorities said "Their relatives have been informed and are being cared for," police said in a tweet.
Police had declined to release information about those who were injured for several hours, saying the victims' families needed to be reached first.

What do we know about the driver?
Authorities said the suspected driver was detained by passers-by before officers arrived on the scene. Police said the suspected driver was a 29-year-old
German-Armenian living in Berlin. Berlin police spokesman Martin Dams said it was unclear whether the incident was the result of an accident or whether
the driver had intentionally driven into the crowd.

"They are very keen to stress that they are unclear on the potential motive or the cause. They did point out there have been accidents in the past year here
in Berlin involving people having medical emergencies and running cars onto pavements," DW's Joel Dullroy reported.

Officials 'deeply affected' by news of crash
Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said she was "deeply affected by the incident" and was closely watching developments.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said that the body's "thoughts are with the loved ones of the person killed and with all the survivors."

The incident took place close to the scene of a fatal attack on December 19, 2016, when Islamist extremist Anis Amri hijacked a truck, killed the driver
and then plowed it into a crowded Christmas market in Breitscheidplatz. The attack killed 11 people and injured dozens of others...'

DW.com


Why stick that bit on the end...? Is it relevant?
minusculethinking

Good question. Gotta get these Renaults and hijacked trucks off the road. Don't you love how they (Mayors, Parliaments, etc..., et al) are always 'deeply affected' or doling out 'our prayers' like lolipops... Bet you could trip them to the tune of severe injury, by asking most of them virtually anything about the incident, perpetrator/s and victims in about 3 weeks.
tinysure


"Good judgment comes from experience...
Experience...? Well, that comes from poor judgment."
~ Dean Martin ~




#11
(06-09-2022, 12:24 PM)Minstrel Wrote:
(06-09-2022, 10:07 AM)BIAD Wrote: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz shared his sympathies after the incident.

Officials 'deeply affected' by news of crash
Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said she was "deeply affected by the incident" and was closely watching developments.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said that the body's "thoughts are with the loved ones of the person killed and with all the survivors."

Bet you could trip them to the tune of severe injury, by asking most of them virtually anything about the incident, perpetrator/s and victims in about 3 weeks.

Nope.  Not betting against you on that one.  minusculeguzzlingbeer


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