UPDATE.....12 killed...49 injured with a large number seriously...truck was carrying a massive steel shipment from Italy heading to Poland....Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
NEW jihadi attack TTP...they physically truck jacked the truck killing the driver ...his shipping company had lost contact to the driver at 1600 German time and his wife had also repeatedly attempted to reach him. Police are using the trucks GPS system to retrace the route taken from 1600...all EU long haul trucks are required to carry a GPS recording system when the engine is engaged....
One passerby on his bicycle noticed the driver running away from the scene which at that time first looked like a traffic accident as the jihadi did not drive at an angle into the market but along the edge and solid decorative steel pole barriers kept the truck along the sidewalk and it ended up at an angle but not going deeper into the market area.
The bicyclist started chasing the fleeing driver all the while talking with the Berlin SWAT (SEK) on his blue tooth in his ear....SEK then surrounded and arrested him roughly five miles from the scene near the Victory Column for those that know Berlin....
At the moment of impact there is a solid rumor still not confirmed by the Berlin Police that a group of men (number not identified) started shouting "God is Great".....market goers immediately notified the on site police team (20 of them that were providing market security)...and there were arrests...number not confirmed nor is the arrest confirmed.....
At 0400 this morning the Berlin SEK raided into a refugee center at the old Templehof airport...reason for the raid and that the raid even took place although people observed the raid is not being confirmed as well.....
While some might call this a lone wolf attack...the use of a pistol in a highly weapons controlled country indicates a logistic supply element as does the group of arrested men shouting "Good is Great"...coupled with the actual hijacking of the truck and then killing the driver.
Truck driver was known to the police as a small time criminal after a number of arrests....they cannot/will not confirm if he is Pakistani and or from AFG....he arrived in Berlin in FEB 2016 via the Balkan smuggle route and has used various different names when arrested in the past 10 months....
Case has been turned over to the German Federal Prosecutors Office and the arrested individual flown to a Federal Prison location not named yet for further questioning....
Berlin was lucky as the truck was travelling a heavily congested road in the evening and the speed limit there is 30mph/50kms and the truck was heavily loaded so the speed of the truck was limited...and it came to rest faster than an unloaded semi trailer...otherwise he would have landed deeper into the crowded marketplace ...most of the killed were rolled over and under the truck due to the heavy load....
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