Intense Search For The Perpetrator Of The Attack In Berlin

Video: Intense Search For The Perpetrator Of The Attack In Berlin

Video: Germany Mourns Victims, Searches for Perpetrator of Berlin Attack 2024, April

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

German authorities are searching the country for the person responsible for the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, which the Islamic group ISIS has been responsible for on Tuesday.

"The true perpetrator is armed, at liberty and may cause harm again," a police source told the German newspaper Die Welt.

The Pakistani immigrant who was originally arrested as the alleged perpetrator of the massacre in which 12 people died and 48 others were wounded was released after the police acknowledged that he had no evidence linking him to what happened.

The arrest occurred 2 kilometers from the scene of the attack committed with a large tonnage truck, which rammed the crowded Christmas market located in a well-known point in the German capital.

"Possibly we need to assume that we have not arrested the right person," prosecutor Peter Frank said in a meeting with the press, according to CNN.

While many loose ends remain at this preliminary stage of the investigation, it appears that authorities believe the attack was perpetrated by more than one person.

The truck with which the attack was carried out belongs to a Polish transport company and inside it was found the body of what appears to be its driver, of Polish origin, who was allegedly killed with a firearm.

Ariel Zurawski, owner of the company to which the vehicle belongs, assured a CNN affiliate that the driver was his cousin, who was on a route between Italy and Berlin with the truck in question.

Although it has not been confirmed whether the identity of the dead man corresponds to that of Zurawski's cousin, the businessman claimed that the truck may have been hijacked.

"He wanted to go home Thursday night because he needed to buy Christmas gifts for his wife," said Zurawski.

As the German police intensify the search for the person or persons responsible, a news agency linked to Isis attributed the attack to the actions of one of its "soldiers".