A 29-year old driver ran into pedestrians in Berlin’s central artery on Wednesday, killing a teacher. The incident also injured students on a school trip to Germany. The Renault Clio metallic grey Renault Clio fitted in the window of a perfumery at 10:30 a.m. after striking a group of pedestrians. This is not far from the scene of the 2016 ram truck attack that killed a number of people.
This tourist and commercial district is located to the west of the capital, near the zoological gardens. It is a heavy toll: A teacher was killed, and emergency services surveyed “more than a dozen” injured. Six of them were still “between death and life” Wednesday evening. Three more people are also “seriously hurt”.
According to authorities of the regional state, among the victims are teens from the Land of Hesse (west), who were on a school trip in Berlin. A second teacher was also seriously hurt.
The driver was a German-Armenian man aged 29 who was arrested by police. However, they don’t know if he intended to act in this manner. At the end of the day, Berlin police chief Barbara Slowik stated that they have no evidence to support a political act.
Iris Spranger, a Berlin administration representative, stated on Twitter that the act appeared to have been committed by someone with mental disorders. The claims that a claim letter was found in the vehicle were denied. According to Ms Spranger, writings that contained remarks “about Turkey” were found in the vehicle. According to a spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior, “The investigation continues and it is too soon to speculate on the motives of the act.”
Police said that the driver crashed into pedestrians before continuing his run for approximately 150-200 yards, ending in the window.
I witnessed a person fly through air.
Witness Frank Vittchen said that he saw a person fly through the air after hearing a loud sound near the fountain. . He did not stop, but he left the sidewalk at a high speed. He then got on the road again and ran,” he said.
Numerous firefighters and police were also deployed at the scene. They are also located near the spot where 12 people were killed in an Islamist ram-truck attack on a Christmas marketplace on December 19, 2016.
In Germany, there have been several car-ramming incidents in recent years that were committed by people with psychological disorders.
In April 2018, Munster was the scene of one of the worst crimes. A man drove his mini-van into a group of people in front of a restaurant and killed five. He then shot himself to death.
A 51-year old drunken and psychotic driver drove into pedestrian areas in Trier, just before Christmas, killing five people and seriously injuring 14 others.
A 30-year-old German man ran into the crowd at a carnival parade in Volksmarsen (west), and injured 100 people.
