Moment German-Armenian man, 29, is arrested by police after repeatedly mounting pavement and ploughing his car into shoppers in Berlin
This is the moment Berlin police arrested a 29-year-old German-Armenian man after he ploughed his car into crowds of shoppers early today, leaving at least one dead and 30 injured.
Footage shows police leading the handcuffed man – dressed in a yellow hoodie, dark tracksuit trousers and red trainers – to a black BMW and shutting him inside. Just a short distance away, the man’s own car sits buried in the front window of a perfume shop, as badly wounded people he just ran over lie on the pavement.
The suspect, who lives in Berlin, is known to police for ‘property crime’, Bild reported.
Fire service spokesperson says about 30 people have been injured in incident near scene of 2016 Muslim terror attack
A car has been driven into a crowd of people in western Berlin, killing one person, the newspaper Das Bild has reported.
A spokesperson for the German capital’s fire service told Reuters about 30 people had been injured.
Germany: Car drives into crowd in Berlin, 1 dead
He said the suspected driver of the vehicle was detained. It was unclear whether the incident was the result of an accident or whether the driver had intentionally driven into the crowd, Dams said.
The incident took place close to the scene of a fatal attack on December 19, 2016, when Islamist extremist Anis Amri, hijacked a truck, killed the driver and then plowed it into a crowded Christmas market in Breitscheidplatz. The attack killed 11 other people and injured dozens of others.
