of the nation, one back to the find out about robina story in some language. reliable news for migraines. wherever they may be. this is the the news live from berlin. a man plows, a car into a crowded christmas market in germany. 2 people are confirmed dead and more than 60 others are injured, and the remnants had got a christmas market in the german city of monterey for the suspects of 15 year old. saudi doctor is in police custody. the mariana evans, dean, welcome. germany is in morning after a driver plowed his car into a busy christmas market in the city of monta berg killing at least 2 people and

injuring more than 60 others. one of the dead is a young child. authorities have arrested a suspect. he's a 50 year old doctor from saudi arabia who moves in germany in 2006. he had expressed strong anti islam views online, and also praise the far right a of the political party. the police force, the driver of a badly damaged bmw, out of his cot 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 above. the vehicle drive at least 400 mazes, according to police, killing and injuring people in its path. a young child as among the deed, more than $100.00 image and c responders rushed to the scene of honor. we were in

the church of the concepts and we sold the police lights and had the sirens. otto and of course it went on so long that you have to assume that something terrible had happened. if prospect is just to see if this gym and all stars east have identified the drive as a 50 year old doctor, he moved to germany from saudi arabia in 2006. they described him as a loan to attack it, and did not believe they were any through the threats. starz is 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 uh, all caught up 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, 1st thing can, 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 years after and his law mich extremist drive a 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 cooled off for the weekend as a safety precaution. and out of respect for the victims and multiple the w's jewels. gisler is covering the story for us and mazda burke, and i asked her about the situation there this morning. good morning, mariana. as you can see behind me, that is police still have called in all the areas 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 is 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 and marked of work last night. i know you've been speaking to many people. what have they been telling you the people here us to absolutely on the shock the, the low because i could talk to you, they actually had difficulties to find what for what has happened. and i think many people here still don't really understand what actually has happened. people have devastated the angry they assigned dave always dead as bad to me and some of the v, but also really reactive sensitive when asked about the incident,

cuz it was highlights from mexican at the moment in the local hospital near by the zip cycle up to code service in place where relatives of the victims and people are affected by it can go to to find the 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 burke market? do we know how this man was able to drive into the crowds so far? and that is the question at the moment of thirty's and police forces are trying to answer. this is why the investigation is going on at the moment. they're 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 gaps just to give you an impression to the driver, to chance to actually drive his car 400 meters into the market. so that has definitely been a got this question, needs to be answered in the following days by the organizers and the city of multiple and other and just to give you that some information about either christmas small kids in the area or close by as in highlight or light 6, 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. that angels just for our international audience. can you tell us a little bit about the city of mac,

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, all 6, any unhook with more than 240000 citizens living here it is a pretty quiet city. so it has moved 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 hits 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 shock that was dw jewels gave for reporting for us from the city of my work jewels. thank you so much. i as well for more on this developing story, i'm joined at the studio by dw security and political correspondent, 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 most. in fact, according to reports, it was an exam critic and according to the 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 us or just try and find that key question. 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. 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 them on did what the main suspect did. but also it is, i believe, are indeed looking at different possibilities. one is that i mentioned going through social media posts going through interviews that he might have given in the past. a 2nd aspect mentioned by also reports is that a thought is, looks ill, search his apartment, and not far away from my job 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 puzzle that they already mentioned. so based on the information that they had at the time, and again, this only happened last night also does believe that he was acting low and 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 no 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 x. but saying that maybe it's not, it wasn't the best decision to come to that conclusion so quick. 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 . turns those blocks that jewels 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 this call. 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 was, was, mock is, 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 early elections and basically all the different parties and non political campaign mode. so i do believe that the incident in mac, the book, and also 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 party, 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 f d. so it will be interesting to see where the f b use is this, or actually the distances itself from its because the mind was apparently a supporter of the a. if the in any case it will be part of the political debate back for sure. all right, thank you so much. that was dw security and political correspondent, thomas sparrow. thomas, always great to hear your insights. all right, let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the

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