and then when doing the racing questionnaires on the team to ministry is kind of fun. it feels like the you're watching the videos live from button, a gall crashes into a crowd out of christmas. lock it in germany. say to for show safe to people have been queued in the eastern city of mocked above and scored small in george a talk is a freaking it as an attack and have addressed it as aspect the massage as well. and back into the program. we begin here in germany, where 2 people have been conform dead and many of those injured off to the car plowed into

a crowded christmas market. the incident happened to the eastern city of mock, the book, and saxony on how to states the drywall off the card has been invested and is suspected of standing out in the tech. it's hard to say he's a doctor from saudi arabia who has been living in germany since 2006 at school straight across the dues. he was que slow, who's at the scene in mac to but it was have been that for some time now. what have you been seeing so far? to say when i arrived here, they are seeing that they cooled off the whole city center. so there were hundreds of police officers, fire fighters, and 1st aid was born. this applied to, to seem to secure the area and to make sure that people are also leaving the scene and that they are taking care of the injured and right now it's a bit quieter. so it's to, i am in the morning here at the moment. so there are less people on the street,

but still the area is widely pulled and off and there still some police officers behind me securing to see why investigations ongoing. it seems a part of dave evacuated the area as well. why did they do that? so they quoted off widely and we're thinking of evacuating even more people because they found a bag in the suspects car. and they wanted to make sure that there were no explosives in the car. so they checked the car and they asked people to leave and they gave the all clear now that there were no explosive signs us. and what's more, do we know about the suspect? so as he mentioned before, we know that the suspect is around 50 years of age. he's a doctor from saudi arabia. he's been living in germany since 2006, but also she's the thing. there has been no link so far to any extra mist networks

or any is the miss background. so the motives still stays on clear and stable until um, when the investigations off finish. this is why police officers are asking witnesses at the moment to call them if they do have any she know you're said been, there's been another attack on the christmas market in germany. we know that there was a similar attack in berlin and more security precautions have been put in place as a reaction. yet this attack was scattered out around you. do you see all these security measures? is there any indication why they failed so miserably? the star of the day that we don't have any indication which side of our and yes you're absolutely right. there's been a security measures in play. so when you got to the area, you could see that they were actually paid on on the street. so did that when no x

is actually possible, but as it seems they were not stable enough. so they put kind of locates there, but they were not as stable as they so what day would be. and as i think this is one thing to authorities also have to investigate further down the line to see if they do have to leave off their security measures around christmas markets so far. i guess. so being the base of other christmas markets closing over this incidence. for example, in the city of holla, this is the same state time around 70 kilometers from here. but so far they decided to keep it open. exactly, and we have days away from christmas a time when these markets, when so many people are flocking to these markets, how will people have been reacting people out the site and you can clearly see and hear this industry. i talk to some local, it's here and they con degrass what actually happened. and they never thought that

something like that would happen in a small town like mexico. and here you can see there are less people, industry potentials are kind of high deeper. do we also most sensitive to questions? you can definitely see this. i talked to some people and they were quite angry. they went well, some really sad. and at the moment the local hospital has a psychological service. they put in place for relatives to go there to get to psychological support they need right now, dw and fuels caseload in mocked above. thank you so much for your reporting. now earlier the data minister affects me on how to describe what authorities know about the suspected perpetrator. tito, from what we know now, the suspect is 50 years old and comes from saudi arabia. he initially traveled to

germany in 2006. he's on a permanent residents permit and he has a dock so from band bug, from what we know, he was acting alone. a short while ago, i all started as an export time jack option low. what he makes up the profile of the attacker. i mean 7 aspects of these attack uh, very unusual. so 1st of all, the fact that it is possible to drive with the car on to the christmas marketing jeremy needing 2024 is unusual because since december 2016 and the horrible attack on the christmas market impelling this is a very known scenario. and usually christmas markets are quite effectively cordoned or full or traffic, including personal comes the 2nd, really is the age and the nationality to a certain extent of the perpetrator. so we did see in the last 24 months that

produced actually getting younger up to 15 years old. people have been invested. and usually the last time a large number of soldiers was involved in a terrorist attack was at 911 in 2001 where a team of the perpetrators were from saudi arabia. so they are very strange aspects to this whole scenario. and it's really hard to say what precisely, what's going so far the policy is i've said they believe this what the lone wolf attack or they are not looking for any other suspects. do you think that move or that announcement just be mature? and i think the announcement is maybe giving the wrong impression, obviously at that time in the car there was only this one individual. and this was really important to highlight that there is not a honey after the attack that they may be of that perpetrators in the town. what

they are doing right now, and searches in the hometown of the perpetrator. and they told him the witnesses, they told him to people who know him at the moment. is there a wider support network? yes or no. obviously, everything is possible to do it by a, by yourself. so you can rent a car by yourself. you can buy gas can as this by yourself. you can build a explosive device by yourself. but all these things in combination, at least keep the possibility that they may be a support network wasn't a marked work man. the car was plowing through the christmas market, but help the man to prepare and that's really important to determine, right? right. and when you mentioned support networks, we have all of these stablish that this fos spect has been in germany for almost 20 years. is there any indication of what that might have them and similar cases like this i've, you've mentioned that the kind of stands out amongst the profile of recent attackers we have seen or have there been other instances of people of over some of

the profile the only stands out as far as the age is concerned. fact people radicalized even after being in germany for a long time or being german. these seem very consistently also, since 2014 were driving, born and raised in germany, have travelers to syria to join ice in. so it's obviously possible to be for people to radicalize who have lived in germany for a very long time and then are ready to attack. we see since october 2023, but also as part of a vida indication of these terror networks, no longer being really under sustained military pressure and neither enough contest on northern africa, nor really in the middle east. indeed, a much more broader operational capability off international power networks to actually again conduct the tax in lot of the tax in europe. we've seen the attacks in most kyle receive the attacks in mind. i'm installing and i've seen other

attacks in other european country. so we have to sustain it, but you know, all of these groups to encourage individuals to conduct attacks, to help hasn't the case with a group of use that planned to bomb the, to the concert in getting out to help them online. but also to, to simply inspire individuals to do attacks like you've seen in sony. right. but it does seem that the radically vision aspect has not been confirmed. the policies have not used the woods, tentative attacks yet all the other possible motivations that you've seen in attacks like this that may not be a terrorist attack. well, i mean the thirty's in june talk about an unlock, an honest lock is not a, let's say, a guy, a crazy guy driving a clock that's not an honest lot. um, so i would say at least as far as the formulations off the terminal parties is

concerned, they are actually looking into a tires and scenario here. now, the indication is that the federal prosecute of germany asked announced by the minister president of sex on sex, and that is taking up the investigations and the federal to prosecute. not only in these cases takes up investigation these days a at least hints towards the terrace. i do want to circle back to what you mentioned about the attack here in berlin that a christmas market. this must we existing security measures to prevent such attacks, right? what kind of measures are there that was implemented off to that attack? and why do think they failed? the locals is uh yes, they are. and, and really good that if i tried lots attacked on the christmas marketing putting on the price i plots, which is gonna be busy road in bowling, was conducted by a truck blowing a truck attack in friends in nice at the bus the day in july 14th of july of

2016 really changed things. so there were physical barriers around the christmas market, impactable, but there must have been a gap that allowed that top to get through other roads, even seen by journalist on the scene tonight, other roads to the christmas box were blocked off. but that must have been a gap. the question is, why was there a gap? um, what's the reason for it was this something that no one had seen? but also of course, you have much higher presence of police, both in uniform and in civilian clothes. at christmas markets you have cameras installed. so there is a much higher level of security because it was known for many years already. and the, at the new cause for attacks and christmas markets, both biased. i'll try it out as well as the slide mac state. these yeah. that christmas markets or any other large gatherings or targets for to. so they,

i usually quite well protected in germany that's makes this scenario. so we, it's, if this is a, you know, it's really hard to prevent something like sorting, where a guy simply buys a nice in a supermarket and then nice down people. that's the task for me, right. but this the car on the christmas market. petra, simply not happening. terrorism expert. hon. yeah. cushion law. thank you so much walking us to that. thank you. and german john. slower laughed charles has made his 1st public to marks on the events. in my book, he wrote on x, the reports from month to book grieves the worst feel. it's my parts over the victims and their families. this actually on how samuel's says he, he expects show us to visit the city on saturday. now is just 2 months before elections here in germany. oh, you are the w correspondence. i'm and young told me what this could mean for germany's government and put you on special what clearly they so risk of taxis,

a blow if it is an attack and it looks at least plausible. it looked very likely that this was a deliberate incident. and so he blog for the jim and state for the whole country. politicians have been coming out to saying that as much this evening in various different ways. and i think clearly off to the shock of settled, the government will need to sort of come up with a, a meaningful response in the coming days. and i think the questions you've already been talking about will play a key role there in the security aspect. how could this have happened off to the previous attacks, particularly the 2016 at berlin attack or the christmas market, but all the incidents as well. we know these kinds of events was seen as targets at security, had been in hans. why didn't it work? and then if this turns out to be an islamist attack, that will, of course, a fuel the debate that's already going on about how to count of that product.

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