According to Die Velt, the driver is a Pakistani refugee: Navid B., 23 years old.
Posted on 12/19/2016 11:34:06 AM PST by UKrepublican
A truck has ploughed into a Christmas market in western Berlin injuring several people, local media reported, citing police.
“Police confirm that a truck ploughed into a Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin-Charlottenburg,” local newspaper Berlin Zeitung stated.
(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...
Three state elections in the spring...AfD stands to win more than 15-percent in NRW...other two elections maybe 10-percent.
Too many influences existing to predict outcome in Sep national election. Turks might let the gate down and 500,000 refugees make way to Greece and onto Germany. German commission on NSA problems ordered to receive Snowden (he will actually come to Germany) and I doubt that Berlin will react to US extradition papers. More terror acts likely to occur.
Just to vote AfD...doesn’t mean anything gets fixed. Court system can derail any attempt to remove immigrants from Germany. Competency of AfD is always a question mark with it’s new and sometimes lacking members. And you have to remember....AfD is mostly a one-trick pony...beyond that one central theme, they don’t really have a wide array of platforms.
One might note a page 5 story and didn’t get noticed much. About a week ago at Frankfurt, some big-wig of the Taliban from Afghanistan flew in with a fake passport and got stopped. He flipped around and then asked for asylum. Germans have to accept paperwork, and currently it takes four to nine months.
The thing is...this is a guy who came to Norway and stayed around there for a dozen years, before being accused of radicalizing young Muslims there and forced to leave in 2014 (back to Afghanistan).
You would think that the Germans would just open up the Norway folder, do a one-hour review, and put the guy on a plane back to Afghanistan...but no, they haven’t done that.
Nothing much said about this episode except by print-media.
According to Die Velt, the driver is a Pakistani refugee: Navid B., 23 years old.
"The Berlin special mission commandos stormed a hangar at Tempelhof Airport, where an asylum shelter is located...Four young men were questioned at the police station in the refugee camp on the grounds of the former Tempelhof Airport, but there were no arrests.""The suspect was known under the names David and Navid B., born on January 1, 1993 in Turbat, Pakistan. He was admitted to Germany in February 2016, and granted a residence permit June 2016."
"According to the Brandenburg Ministry of the Interior, the Polish passenger of the alleged assassin was probably shot."
"The AfD chairwoman, Frauke Petry, indirectly gave the federal government joint responsibility for the alleged attack. "The milieu in which such acts can flourish has been negligently and systematically imported over the last one and a half years." Petry added: "Germany is no longer safe."
"Klaus Bouillon (CDU), Chairman of the Interior Ministerial Conference, speaks of a "war state". He told Saarland radio: "We are in a state of war, although some people who want to see only the good, cannot see"."
More of this is coming here.
Police detained the wrong man. Attacker still at large http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/20/german-police-call-christmas-market-crash-intentional-suspected-terror-attack.html
When it bust loose, it's going to be ugly.
I’m watching Fox News this morning, and it’s like I’m in a time warp.
They have the story about the Berlin bombing.
Followed by a story about the Berlin bombing.
Followed by the same story about the Berlin bombing.
Then some talking head talking about the Berlin bombing.
Then an update on the Berlin bombing.
Then the whole thing over again, for those who might have missed it the first 10 times around.
Okay... terrible thing... but is there ANY other news on the planet, fellas?
Re your comment,we were watching Fox and I just finished saying this to Mrs. exit82, and then read your post.
I even said out loud “Is there nothing else going on in the world?”
There was a bombing as well?
True story... I just popped Fox News back on:
“We’ll be right back with Kellyanne Conway, and we’ll ask her about the Berlin bombing!”
Click.
ANOTHER one?
“Ploughs?” I know a plow is USA and plough is European, but shouldn’t be “plowed?” Any English majors out there?
Source RT is Russia Today, English language version, so “ploughs”, the British spelling is correct both as noun and verb.
Color/colour, honor/honour... same sort of thing.
;>)
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