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2016-12-19 Europe
Breaking: Terror attack on Berlin Christmas market
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Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 15:16|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 German media report that the truck had Polish number plates (that doesn't mean the driver is Polish). The driver fled. A person has been apprehended but it's not yet known whether he is the driver.

Up to now at least 9 people dead, more than 50 people wounded.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 15:41||   2016-12-19 15:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank you, European Conservative.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-12-19 15:43||   2016-12-19 15:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like they got the driver. Co driver dead.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 15:51||   2016-12-19 15:51|| Front Page Top

#4 said the truck was hired from Poland.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-12-19 15:53||   2016-12-19 15:53|| Front Page Top

#5 @EC What's the mood in Germany?

Why isn't Merkel toast already?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-12-19 15:54||   2016-12-19 15:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Good. Now to identify him, and whether it was an accident or intentional. If he is a jihadi, I hope the police and politicians will not be so stupid as to try to hide the truth.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-12-19 15:55||   2016-12-19 15:55|| Front Page Top

#7 An accident is possible but somehow I don't believe it. We'll see.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 15:59||   2016-12-19 15:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Bright Pebbles

Merkel isn't toast because nobody in the CDU has the balls to step up
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 16:02||   2016-12-19 16:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Polish TV reports that the Polish owner has reported that his truck was stolen.

Also the Generalbundesanwalt has taken over the case. This points to a terror attack.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 16:15||   2016-12-19 16:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Obama takes time out from golfing today to free 231 federal convicts. Some very sad irony here.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-19 16:23||   2016-12-19 16:23|| Front Page Top

#11 #BREAKING: Raids in #Schaerbeek #Belgium are taking place after reports of a 'Serious threat'
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-12-19 16:24||   2016-12-19 16:24|| Front Page Top

#12 European Conservative. Recent reports indicated that people who criticised Merkel on social media were being investigated by the state. Is that true? Is that why people are afraid to step up?
Posted by Nero White 3083 2016-12-19 16:35||   2016-12-19 16:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Busy day for the Amish people
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 16:35||   2016-12-19 16:35|| Front Page Top

#14 I had to look up Generalbundesanwalt.
For anyone else who doesn't know, I got this:

"The Federal Prosecutor of the Federal Supreme Court is the supreme law enforcement agency of the Federal Republic of Germany in the field of state protection. It shall exercise the office of the public prosecutor in all serious state protection matters which are particularly sensitive to internal or external security.

Domestic security is affected by politically motivated crimes, especially terrorist acts of violence, external security through treason and espionage. The Federal Prosecutor's Office at the Federal Court of Justice is also responsible for the prosecution of offenses under the Criminal Code."

Correcting my ignorance one day at a time.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-12-19 16:37||   2016-12-19 16:37|| Front Page Top

#15 They'd be very busy if they investigated everyone who criticizes Merkel.

But I do notice that authorities are stepping up their more or less unveiled threats against Facebook and Twitter.

The former German president of the EU parliament (who wants to become chancellor) has called for making presumed "fake news" illegal (whatever this means).

Not encouraging.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 16:40||   2016-12-19 16:40|| Front Page Top

#16 Btw I have heard many many words in the last hours.
Guess which word is missing?
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 17:20||   2016-12-19 17:20|| Front Page Top

#17 Surprise us
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-19 17:21||   2016-12-19 17:21|| Front Page Top

#18 Hint: First letter is an I
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 17:22||   2016-12-19 17:22|| Front Page Top

#19 One "m"?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-19 17:23||   2016-12-19 17:23|| Front Page Top

#20 You're up to something.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 17:27||   2016-12-19 17:27|| Front Page Top

#21 It looks like the truck was on its way from Italy to Poland and was hijacked.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 17:35||   2016-12-19 17:35|| Front Page Top

#22 So the dead 'co-driver' was the real driver who got hijacked and murdered?
Posted by jpal 2016-12-19 17:42||   2016-12-19 17:42|| Front Page Top

#23 Leftist MSM here is called it a truck accident at the moment until they can figure out how to protect the letter "I" first.
Posted by Woozle Glinenter1578 2016-12-19 17:44||   2016-12-19 17:44|| Front Page Top

#24 jpal, could be but not confirmed.
We can definitely rule out an accident.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 18:21||   2016-12-19 18:21|| Front Page Top

#25 aftermath
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-12-19 18:31||   2016-12-19 18:31|| Front Page Top

#26 The German daily Welt reports that the driver is a "refugee" from Pakistan although this has not been confirmed.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 19:09||   2016-12-19 19:09|| Front Page Top

#27 the rumour is the original driver was Polish, and the pakistani terrorist hijacked the van and killed him.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-12-19 19:11||   2016-12-19 19:11|| Front Page Top

#28 The arrogance of German television is quite amazing. A moderator told his audience that it's midnight now and there won't be any more news about the attack until tomorrow morning.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 19:16||   2016-12-19 19:16|| Front Page Top

#29 German authorities began early Tuesday to sketch a politically explosive portrait of the man arrested in the Berlin Christmas-market attack.

According to a report in the German newspaper Die Welt, translated with computer assistance by the Washington Times, the suspect is a newly-arrived Pakistani refugee.

Der Tagesspiegel, a rival Berlin daily paper, had a similar account, reporting that the man was either Pakistani or Afghan.

In an indication that authorities know a great deal about the man, Die Welt specified the date on which the man arrived in Germany — Feb. 16 this year.

At that time, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was defending her government’s open-door policy to refugees from the Muslim world in the face of an increasing backlash from German voters.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-12-19 19:50||   2016-12-19 19:50|| Front Page Top

#30 Ariel Zurawski is the boss of the Polish company whose driver was murdered. He gave interview not reported by U.K. Media
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-12-19 19:53||   2016-12-19 19:53|| Front Page Top

#31 Danke, Merkel!!
Posted by charger 2016-12-19 20:00||   2016-12-19 20:00|| Front Page Top

#32 12 dead now
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 20:33||   2016-12-19 20:33|| Front Page Top

#33 CNN reports that a "truck" killed 12.
Posted by Clomogum Lumplump7756 2016-12-19 20:37||   2016-12-19 20:37|| Front Page Top

#34 We have reactions and condolences from many international leaders.

Guess who hasn't said anything yet?
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 20:42||   2016-12-19 20:42|| Front Page Top

#35 They usually wait for 24 to 48 hours to announce responsibility.
Posted by newc 2016-12-19 21:11||   2016-12-19 21:11|| Front Page Top

#36 #35, Busy Presidentin' (Golfing and freeing prisoners)
Posted by Frank G 2016-12-19 21:12||   2016-12-19 21:12|| Front Page Top

#37 Guess who hasn't said anything yet?

Still in a sand trap would be my guess.
Posted by Raj 2016-12-19 22:23||   2016-12-19 22:23|| Front Page Top

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