as a living see to your it's of trees. jenny reset on the w the this is you got the news, fly from button, a call crashes into a crowd at a christmas market in germany. state officials say to people who have been queued in the eastern city of mocked above and scores more enjoyed. a thought of these are treating it as an attack and have arrested a suspect. the numbers that the swans welcome to the program. at least 2 people have been confirmed it and 60 are those injured off to cops out into a crowd of christmas market in germany. the incident happened in the eastern city

of mazda book and talked to me on how to state the drive off the car has been arrested, and is suspected of getting out and attack atara. as you see, he's a doctor from saudi arabia who has been living in germany since 2006 dw fuel excuse low, was at the scene. in macbook, i off turn about what she saw. and so when i arrived here, they, i've seen that they called knows the whole city senses that are with hundreds of police officers, fire fighters and 1st aid was born. this applied to the scene 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's to some police officers behind me securing to see why investigations ongoing. it seems. authorities

evacuated the area as well. why did they do that? to say they quoted us 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 explosives funds. and what 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 age limit background. so the motive still stays on clear and stable

until when the investigations off finish. this is why police also are asking witnesses at the moment to call them if they do have any she know you've said been, there's been another attack on a 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 um the security measures? is there any indication why they failed so miserably? the star we do, but 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 they, 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 um, to see if they do have see these off stairs secuity measure around christmas markets so far. i guess. so be in 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 had days away from christmas at diamond these markets, when so many people are flocking to these markets, how people have bad reacting people out the site and you can clearly see and hear this in the street. i talked to some locusts here and they con, really growth. 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 x also most sensitive to questions? you can definitely see this. i talked to some people and they were quite angry. they went with some really sad and at the moment the local hospital has a psychological service. they put in place full relatives to go there to get to psychological supports they need, right now, dw and fuels caseload in locked above. thank you so much for your reporting. now the interior minister for sectioning on how described what authorities know about the suspected by patricia 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 is a doctor from band bug. from what we know, he was acting alone. oh no, i all started as an expert hans yak option. know what he makes off 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 germany in 2024 is unusual because since december 2016 and the horrible attack on the christmas market and putting 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 interested.

and usually the last time, a larger 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 panic after these 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. they told them to witnesses. they don't think the people who know him at the moment. is there

a wider support network? yes or no. obviously, everything is possible to to buy it 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 there may be a support network wasn't a mark to work when 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 already established that this, fos spect has been in germany for almost 20 years. is there any indication of what that might have them in similar cases like this? i've, you've mentioned that this 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, that people radicalized even after being in germany for a long time or being german,

the scene 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. neither enough to understand 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 well planned attacks in europe and we see the attacks in most kyle res, seem the attacks in mind. i'm installing and i've seen that tax in other european country. so we have a 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 terrorist 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, that was already in german. talk about an unlock, an honest lock is not a, let's say, a guy 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 terrorism 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 prosecutor. only in these cases takes up the investigation. these days a, at least hints towards tears. i don't want a sofa back to what you mentioned about the attack here in berlin that a christmas market that must be 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 most is uh you say are and, and really good that if i tried, blocks the tax 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 front in nice at the bus, the day in july, 14th of july of 2016 really change states. so there were physical barriers around

the christmas market, impactable. but there must have been a gap that allowed that tall 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? 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 yet 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 okay. so they, i usually quite well protected in germany. that's mixed this scenario. so we, it's, this is a, you know, it's really hard to prevent something like sorting, where

a guy simply buys a nice in a supermarket in a nice down people. that's the task for me, right. but this, the car on the christmas market better simply not happen. any terrorism expert, hon. yeah, cushion low. thank you so much walking us to that. thank you. and germans on slow life shows has reacted to the events in marked above the writing on x. the reports from month to book greece, the worst fios my thoughts over the victims and their families. the saxony on his family, ah, says he expects chose to visit the city on saturday. now it's just 2 months before elections here in germany. oh, earlier dw correspondence, simon young told me what this could mean for germany's government and put you on special what clearly they so risk attack, he's a blow if it is an attack, and it looks at least plausible. it looks 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 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 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 counter that product. that's right. in particular, to dw correspondence,

simon young fair. you really continue bringing you updates about this developing story in the coming i was and you can find more information on our website at dw dodge. com as well as on social media i'll handle. this is actually the news items such as well. thank you for watching the, the untold story for details. it just going to be funded here repos every weekend on d. w. conflict crises around every single connection mapped out.