now we had to sign, it was incredibly low. this is riding you with free information. these are made for mine. the this is the w news live from berlin, a man plows, a car into a crowded christmas markets in germany. 2 people are confirmed dead and more than 60 others are injured in the running attack in the german city of monte board. the suspect of 50 year old saudi doctor is in police custody. the a marietta evans team, welcome germany is in shock. after

a driver plowed his car into a busy christmas market in the city of mazda board, killing at least 2 people, and injuring more than 60 others. one of the dad is a young child. authorities have a rest of the saucepan cheese a 50 year old doctor from saudi arabia who moved in germany in 2006. he had apparently a expressed a strong anti islam views online, and also appraised the far right a f. d political party. and police both the driver of a badly damaged bmw ounce of his kind and onto the ground. before officers rushed to detain him. the race came moments of to the cost smashed through a crowd of people at a busy christmas market in the east gym and city of mount the book of the vehicle drive at least $400.00 mazes according to police, killing and injuring people in its path. a young child is among the deed more than

$100.00 image and see responded, rushed to the scene of honor. we were in the church for the concert and we sold the police lights and had the sirens. otto and of course, went on so long that you have to assume that something terrible had happened. it prospect is just because here this jim and all the doors he's have identified the drive as a 50 year old doctor. he moved to germany from saudi arabia in 2006. they described him as a lone attack it and did not believe there was any fear. the threats. dollars is on the football. it is a terrible tragedy videos. it is a catastrophe for the city of mazda board and for germany, and generally for the fun. is this a off, claudia, 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. friday's attack time, 8 he is after and his law mich extremist drive the truck into a bill in christmas market, killing 13 people. christmas markets are a huge part of german culture. but several events have now being quoted on the weekend as a safety precaution and out of respect for the victims and multiple we can now speak to the w's jewels case there who's been covering the story for us and mocked of work. good to see you. jewels, so it's morning now in the city of mock to work. what is the situation there right now? a good morning, mariana. as you can see behind me, that is police do have quoting all the area around the christmas markets, but they still have a police presence on the streets, but you can get closer to them. ok, no, but there's still a criminal investigation going on. slowly. the city is waking up,

you do see more people in the streets and more and more people. so coming to the city center and apart from that, public transport is slowly starting to run again, all the in the city center where we are right now. there's still no stops as you can see, the trim lines behind me, they still know a parade thing here. and also slowly, the traffic is starting again around the area, but the city center in itself is still pretty quiet. and jewels i know that you arrived in mazda bork last night. i know you've been speaking to many people. what have they been telling you people here. i stood absolutely on the shock and the low because i could talk to you. they actually had difficulties to find what's for what has happened. and i think many people here still don't really understand what actually has happened. people have to have

a site to that angry they assigned they voice the dispatch to me. and some of the people also have really reactive sensitive when ask about the incident, cuz it was highlight traumatic. and at the moment, in the local hospital, near by the isp, psychological service in place where relatives of the victims and people are affected by it can go to, to find, to help and support needed. i imagine people are especially shocked because christmas markets are a place that generally do have quite a bit of security. what was the security situation like at the mazda book markets? do we know how this man was able to drive into the crowds so far? and that is the question at the moment. authorities and police forces are trying to answer this is why the investigation is going on at the moment. they are looking for witnesses to reconstruct what actually has happened. there were

security measures in place, and usually you do have a concrete blocks, quite heavy, concrete blocks blocking the entrance to the roads and then from the roads to the market, they were in place, but security exports has been signed. there must have been a gap somewhere security gap because if there would have not been a gap just to give you an impression to drive a to chance to actually drive has cost 400 meters into the market. so that has definitely been a got this question, needs to be answered in the following days, but it organizers and to city of multiple and other and just to give you that some information about either christmas small kids in of the area or close by as an holler or leipzig, so the old being pacing up, notice security measures about this incident. there will be more police force on the streets patrolling christmas markets and also been announced that they would have more police force to secure the christmas markets then. and jewels just for

our international audience. can you tell us a little bit about the city of mock the borg? what? what is it like to say multiple to give you an impression is well, 1st of all, the state because the state capital of 6 any on hub with more than 240000 citizens living here, it is a pretty quiet city. so it has moved to the feeling of a town, a big town, to be honest. and most public life happens here in the city center. so when people meet for dinner, they meet the friends that go shopping. everything is based around this city center where the attack happens in the old town. so this has been quite a traumatic experience. it really hit the heart of the city. and also, i mean, it was the friday before christmas. so we need to bet. and like many people had

their last working day of the year, they wanted to celebrate this. they went through the christmas market. it was crowded, and they were looking forward to christmas. and we do have sits in the spam and on the shop. that was the w jewels gave for reporting for us from the city of my work jewels. thank you so much. i as well for more in this developing story, i'm joined in the studio by and dw security and political correspondence, thomas sparrow, thomas. so, um, good to see, we don't know much yet about the suspect, but what have authorities said about the man who was arrested. the big question is what the motivations behind this incident in math to book the mind, the main suspect was indeed arrested. that is a positive development for authorities when it comes to trying to identify that motivation demand from saudi arabia was not known to authorities as being that is

the mist. in fact, according to reports, it was an exam critic and according to those same reports that went through his social media post, he was blaming officials for what he believed was a attempts to is the mise europe. now, all these pieces of information are now being put together by authorities to try and find that key question to try to answer why this actually happened. the reasons behind these and why it is so important is because once the motivation is in place, the political implications will also become clear out. so basically i thought this will know how to react once they know what the exact motivation was, it is still very early hours after that incident in my, the book to exactly know what the man did, what the main suspect did. but our thought is, i believe, are indeed looking at different possibilities. one is, as i mentioned, going through social media posts going through interviews that he might have given in the past. a 2nd aspect mentioned by us,

the report is that authorities looked ill, searched his apartment, and not far away from mazda, both to try and see if they can find any clues that. so what's happening now is all these different pieces of the puzzle, a slow leak coming to get? well, one other thing that authorities didn't mention, at least initially was that they believe he was a loan attacker. so he acted independently. thomas, how could they come to this conclusion this quickly? well, i don't think it was a specific conclusion. i think they made that announcement based on the information that they had at the time, which was not the information that had all the pieces of the positives already mentioned. so based on the information that they had at the time, and again, this only happened last night. also it is believe that he was acting along with that the suspect was acting alone. however, as the invest investigation progresses, it could become clear up whether in fact the mind was acting alone or whether there

was any kind of network support again. but again, it is still too early to determine that on a thought is mentioned that based on the information that they had, they thought he was acting alone. that has been, however, criticism already from security experts saying that maybe it's not. it wasn't the best decision to come to that conclusion so quick to well, sadly, this is not the 1st time that a christmas market was attacked in germany. we had, of course, here in berlin about 8 years ago. another attack on a christmas market with many of people killed. how did this suspect managed to bypass security? because i assume that since, especially since this major attack in berlin, that really christmas markets in the country have enormous amounts of security. they do indeed, and i visited several in the last few days in different parts of the country to try specifically and look at those security measures. you can see both sides at the end twins, those blocks that jules mentioned, you can see police presence. i saw that myself when i visited these christmas

markets. so the big question here from that perspective is how this suspect managed to drive his car. those many, many meters affect those. so many people. so this is going to be one topic that is going to be hotly debated in the next few days. i expect a lot of criticism also towards local authorities and also a debate as to whether it's security in the country, especially for public spaces like christmas markets is enough, but with a more security is needed already. there are initial steps taken by christmas markets in the region, but that's the medium impact. those are the immediate steps. the big question is whether this will have any more long term implications. when it comes to understanding how public space the drivers have to be protected. well, another hot topic, i imagine, might be the fact that this man was an immigrant to germany. we've mentioned that came from saudi arabia, though he has been in germany for nearly 20 years. thomas,

do you think this element could somehow be significant in also perhaps the elections coming up in february the elections are coming up in february. those are the elections and basically all the different parts of the non political campaign mode. so i do believe that the incident in mac, the book and also hold the whole aspect about the motivation and the suspects and so on, will become part of the debate in the next few days. and in the next few weeks, the question is, what potty will benefit most from that in the past you have seen, for example, the far right part a of the profit benefit from incidents like this where they blame immigrants for what has happened in the country. but in this particular case, it seems that the mind was actually a supporter of the a if the so it will be interesting to see where the f b use is this, or actually distances itself from it. because the mind was apparently as a butcher of the a, if the in any case it will be part of the political debate that for sure. all right,

thank you so much. that was the w security and political correspondent, thomas sparrow. thomas, always great to hear your insights let's get you a quick reminder now of the top story we're following for you. this. our or 2 people are confirmed dead and scores injured after a car ploughed into a crowded christmas market in the german city of monterey board. authorities are treating it as an attack and have a rest of the driver. they say the suspect is a doctor originally from saudi arabia who has lived in germany since 2006. and we'll be following this developing story as more information becomes available . and we will have another update for you at the top of the hour. in the meantime, you can get lots for news and information on our website. just go to www dot com.

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