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crowds at a christmas market in the city of mac, the book, a taut of cheese, have arrested the suspect of drywall, a saudi doctor with permanent durham and residency. the last friday before christmas and mocked the book. the sight of holiday festivities becomes a crime scene secured by authorities after the car funds to crowds in one of the cities traditional christmas markets, a deadly incident spread sphere across the city. sierra who might have been in the vehicle, spots isn't. i'm sit on, we're shaking with full of sympathy for the relatives. and also we hope that nothing has happened to our relatives, friends and acquaintances. we spoke to my other owner. we were in the church for the concepts and we sold the police lights and had the sirens on. and of course it went on so long that you have to assume that something terrible had happened. it

suspect there's just to see if this rescuers race to the scene, taking dozens of people to hospital, some of them with critical injuries. 4 digits emerick showing what appears to be police, detaining a man. a tara, these said the driver was arrested. they said, the suspect is a doctor from saudi arabia who has been living in germany since 2000. and 6 officials were dismayed by the incident which resembled the 2016 attack in which a truck around the christmas market in berlin. dawes is on the football. it is a terrible tragedy videos. it is a catastrophe for the city of mazda board, and for germany, in general, for the fun is this all caught it in the context of what a christmas market is supposed to bring. it really is one of the worst things i can imagine was you know, forced air and con, we have caught the perpetrator us using we are currently in the process of

collecting all further data. and also carrying out the interrogation. tardies are continuing their investigation and have not yet determined the suspects motive. d, w, as your excuse, low was at the scene in mock to bug. i asked her about what she saw, the and so when i arrived here they, i've seen that they quoted off the whole city center. so there were 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 still some police officers behind me securing the scene. why investigations ongoing. it seems

a product if evacuated the area as well. why did they do that? the date quoted or 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. 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 that has the no link so far to any extra mis networks. or any is the miss background. so the motives still stays on clear and they will start 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 hint. now 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 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 located there, but they were not as stable as they so what day would be um and as i think this is

one thing to authorities also have to investigate that and line to um, to see if they do have c, b fox death security measures around christmas markets so far, i guess. so being the base of other christmas markets closing over the 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 exactly, and we had days away from christmas at the time when these markets, when so many people are flocking to these markets, how well people have bad reacting people out the site and you can clearly see and hear this in the street, i talked to some local, it's here and a con really cross what actually happened. and they never thought that something like that would happen in a small town like much to book. and here you can see there are less people. the industry potentials are kind of high deeper. do we also move sensitive to questions?

you can definitely see this. i talked to some people and they were quite angry. they were also 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 support. they need right now to w, as he was case let in montebello. thank you so much for your reporting and the earlier i austin, as an expert contact option, the what he makes off the profile of the attacker. i mean, 7 aspects of these attack are very unusual. so 1st of all, the fact that it is possible to drive with a 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 invested. 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 is pretty much your and i think the announcement is maybe giving the wrong impression. obviously at that time in the car there was only this one's

individual and this was really important to highlight that there is not a kind of after the attack that they may be of that perpetrators in the town. what they are doing right now. and the searches in the hometown of the perpetrators they told them to witnesses. they don't come to people who know him at the moment. is there a wide, a support network? yes or no. obviously everything is possible to do it by a, by yourself. you can rent a car by yourself, you can buy gas can as this by yourself. you can build an 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 mock to work when the car was plowing through the christmas market. but help demand to prepare. and that's really important to determine, right? right. and when you mentioned support networks, we have already established that this prospect 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, of a similar profile. is it only stands out as far as the agents concern. in fact, 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 travelled to syria to join ice. and so it's obviously possible to be for people to radicalize. we've 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 terran 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 line with the tax in europe. and we see the attacks in most galleries seeing the attacks in mind. i'm installing and i've seen other attacks in other european country. so we have a sustain it, but you know of these groups to encourage individuals to conduct a tax to help as in the case with a group of use that planned to form the tennessee concept in getting out to help them online. but also to, to simply inspire individuals to do a tax like we've seen in sony. right. but it does seem that the radical i 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 authorities in german talk about an unlock. an honest lock is not a,

let's say, a guy, a crazy guy driving a call. that's not an honest lot. um, so i would say at least as far as the formulations of 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 medication these days a at least hints to what's tears. i do want to circle back to what you mentioned about the attack here in berlin that a christmas market. this 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 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 past 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? um, was there a 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 mc state this. yeah. that christmas markets, or any other large gatherings or targets for to so they are usually quite well protected in germany. that's makes 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 and then nice down people. that's really tough to me. right. but this the car on the christmas market extra simply not happening. terrorism expert, hun cushion lo, thank you so much for walking us to that. thank you. or before we go, here's a quick recap of this developing story we are following for you. 2 people have been queued and schools in jo adopted a car, plowed into a crowd of christmas markets in eastern germany, a tardies treating it as an attack and have a rest at the drive of the say, he's

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