A Terrorist Truck in Berlin

He stressed “this is a suspect, not necessarily the perpetrator”.

Twelve people were killed and 48 others injured when a truck plowed into a popular Berlin market Monday evening.

The United States condemned an apparent “terrorist attack”, while President-elect Donald Trump blamed “Islamist terrorists” for a “slaughter” of Christians.

A Polish man, named as Lukasz Urban, was found dead in the passenger side of the truck.

He added: ‘If my brother is behind the attack, I say to him “You dishonour us”.

German officials said the 24-year-old came to their attention in March, after a tip-off he might be planning a robbery to raise money to buy automatic weapons for a possible attack.

Horst Seehofer, leader of the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, said: “We owe it to the victims, to those affected and to the whole population to rethink our immigration and security policy and to change it”.

Police is now offering €100,000 for information leading to the capture of the man described as potentially “violent and armed”.

His request for asylum in Germany was rejected in June. Police arrested one suspect after he tried to flee on foot.

“Tunisia at first denied that this person was its citizen, and the papers weren’t issued for a long time“, Jaeger said.

But on Tuesday Berlin’s police chief said it was “uncertain” the detained man was involved, warning that the “dangerous criminal” behind the attack may still be at large.

The incident is reminiscent of the Nice attack in July, when Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel killed 86 people after driving a 19-tonne truck along the beach front during a fireworks display on Bastille day.

The mosque was searched by police on Thursday but the manhunt for prime suspect Anis Amri continues.

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Monday truck attack.

“This clearly, one hundred percent impossible”.

An Israeli national is among those wounded in the truck crash at a Berlin Christmas market, the Foreign Ministry said. “I am relatively confident that we will perhaps tomorrow or in the near future be able to present a new suspect”, Andre Schulz told a talk show on the ZDF public channel. Bild reported that the suspect was known by the police for alleged physical assault, but was never charged, because he had disappeared.

In an attack on the Chancellor’s open-door refugee policy, Klaus Bouillon of Mrs Merkel’s CDU party told Saarland radio: “We must state that we are in a state of war, although some people who want to see only the good cannot see”. “We want to raise the police presence and strengthen the protection of Christmas markets. It must be appropriate and goal-oriented”.