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[mnz]

9 dead and many hurt according to police

https://twitter.com/polizeiberlin/status/810940347006197760

For fucks sake...

 

[Beefy]

RIP to the poor victims and hope the injured survive.

 

[DoubleYou]

If the driver is on the run how do they know he's polish?

 

[Betty]

@polizeiberlin:
Wir können 9 Tote & viele Verletzte bestätigen. Viele Kolleg. sind am #Breitscheidplatz im Einsatz um die Hintergründe zu ermitteln.

9 killed.

Well damn, made so much worse being so close to x-mas.

 

[themagicalkitsune]

Oh jeez this is Nice all over again.

 

[Audioboxer]

A Polish attacker? These early reports are shameful.

Welcome to Twitter and the Internet in 2016. So much misinformation and terrible "journalism".

 

[Dynedom]

Driver on the run either because he was an attacker or knows he fucked up big. Not quite sure of the latter holds water.

RIP to those who lost their lives.

 

[Diprosalic]

If the driver is on the run how do they know he's polish?

only one source saying it's a polish driver, i think they are assuming since the truck was polish.

 

[Tagyhag]

Ugh, hope it doesn't keep getting worse. RIP to all the lost.

 

[wesleyshark]

If the driver is on the run how do they know he's polish?

Polish truck, was the correction. The driver hasn't been identified

 

[KonradLaw]

what ?

Terrorists aren't rational. It's not like any victim of terrorist acts actually deserve to die. Only fools think that "if only that country would do this thing then it wouldn't get any terrorism". This way of thought is just victim blaming.
Edit: I meant terrorists, not all muslims, sorry if that wasn't clear in first post.

 

[Jenov]

2016, pls stop now

RIP.

 

[kmfdmpig]

what ?

The poster is using "these people" to refer to those who would drive a truck into random people, not to Muslims, although the wording is not as clear as it could be.

 

[Jezbollah]

only one source saying it's a polish driver, i think they are assuming since the truck was polish.

The truck belonged to a polish hauling company according reports.

 

[Kenzodielocke]

Man, rest in piece and I really hope this was an accident

 

[shira]

RIP

 

[Tugatrix]

I'll just gonna wait for a police official to came in front of a camera and clarify all this, until then no use calling it an attack or an accident

 

[mnz]

only one source saying it's a polish driver, i think they are assuming since the truck was polish.

They corrected themselves: https://twitter.com/ZDFheute/status/810939130435739648
Only a Polish truck, driver unknown.

 

[Calamari41]

Terrorists aren't rational. It's not like any victim of terrorist acts actually deserve to die. Only fools think that "if only that country would do this thing then it wouldn't get any terrorism". This way of thought is just victim blaming

The guy is just trying to get you in trouble, everyone knew what you meant.

 

[Boem]

Terrorists aren't rational. It's not like any victim of terrorist acts actually deserve to die. Only fools think that "if only that country would do this thing then it wouldn't get any terrorism". This way of thought is just victim blaming

He responded to you because the way you wrote that post made it sound like you said muslims aren't rational people. Which would be a fucked up thing to say, but it's obviously not what you meant. It was easy to misread that sentence though.

 

[GasProblem]

Oh jeez this is Nice all over again.

I hope the casualties are wayyyyy lower then in Nice

 

[tci]

9 dead and many hurt according to police

https://twitter.com/polizeiberlin/status/810940347006197760

I just saw it on my local news. Only 1 confirmed at that time. This is so sad, especially since it is less than a week to Christmas. Plus it happened in a safe place with no warning.

 

[thenight11]

Cnn just reported 9 dead

 

[Reckheim]

Regardless whether it was intentional or not, the attacker ran away from the accident.

Hopefully they catch the piece of shit.

 

[norinrad]

Hearing on the news 9 people have just been confirmed dead.

 

[MUnited83]

How would that make them a target? Especially since many refugees are actually sunni?

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Because they want to make Germany more hostile to refugees, which then leads to easier radicalization and anti-west propaganda.

 

[tci]

I'll just gonna wait for a police official to came in front of a camera and clarify all this, until then no use calling it an attack or an accident

Smart. We should never speculate with no facts.

 

[faer0n]

the 9 dead is from the official berlin police twitter acc

 

[Enosh]

Given that the Berlin fire brigade has claimed that "the driver is on the run" I'm inclined to agree with you.

https://twitter.com/ZDFheute/status/810939130435739648

"correction, truck of polish origin, drivers origins unknown"

edit: yeah i was late the correction was already posted above me, see it now

 

[Boem]

Apparently an old college buddy posted something on facebook yesterday about going there today. No word yet but could be nothing.

 

[MikeHattsu]

so he U turned the truck and ended on that position, odd

Ah, dang. Didn't see the picture in the OP. Looks like he did come the other way then :\

 

[slider]

Fucking terrible. RIP/speedy recoveries to all the victims and thoughts with their loved ones.

 

[dc89]

Several people have died and many more have been injured as a lorry ploughed into a Christmas market in central Berlin, German media report.
Police now say they suspect it was a deliberate attack. Video footage from the scene shows stalls knocked over and people lying injured on the ground.
The market is at Breitscheidplatz close to the Kurfuerstendamm, the main shopping street in the city's west.
A reporter for the Berliner Morgenpost described a "gruesome scene".


https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/810941206876291072

 

[Brakke]

https://media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2013/Sep/20/OTM_Consumer_Handbook.pdf

Yeah put me on ignore or something

Done.

 

[Patrick S.]

There are Polish trucks at every highway rest area in Germany, someone could easily steal one

I'm crying

I'm shaking

My wife is at a christams market right now

I want to call her and pick her up and her phone is off. She's not in Berlin but I'm freaking out

But gaf tells me to chill the fuck out, well sorry but I can't

 

[AnotherDayAnotherDollar]

I shit you not when I say it's hard to feel safe when you are out in a big crowd.

 

[Tugatrix]

Ah, dang. Didn't see the picture in the OP. Looks like he did come the other way then :\

ok so back to that turn just before the place where the truck ended

 

[Patrick S.]

https://media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2013/Sep/20/OTM_Consumer_Handbook.pdf



Done.

Cool.

 

[Always-honest]

Goddamn..... not this horror again.
Be safe Germans. Rip to the victims who died and may all wounded recover swiftly.

 

[Sölf]

Yeah, fuck you to 2016. End soon please.

 

[nampad]

Just yesterday I told my gf not to worry so much after she told me she won't go on christmas markets or football games when she moves here because she is afraid of terrorists...

 

[Reckheim]

Yeah, fuck you to 2016. End soon please.

Yeh, can't see this happening in 2017 ...

 

[Sliver]

Yeah, fuck you to 2016. End soon please.

Dumb sentiment, totally useless line of thinking. RIP to the victims.

 

[gofreak]

Jesus. RIP.

Why would Germany even be targeted ? What's the beef between fundamentalist Islam (if that is what it is) and Germany ?

There are elections in Germany next year, right? Merkel's welcoming of refugees is bad PR for ISIS. They'd love an anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim candidate to win. Conventional wisdom would say that attacks will help that to happen.

 

[MikeHattsu]

ok so back to that turn just before the place where the truck ended

Yeah. Sorry.

 

[Kurtofan]

Yeah, fuck you to 2016. End soon please.

Things aren't going to magically improve when the calendar says "2017".

 

[wesleyshark]

Yeah, fuck you to 2016. End soon please.

This kind of shit isn't going to stop in 2017.

 

[Kathian]

I think it's quite easy for the Police to know if it was deliberate or accidental. In an accident you'd either expect an attempt to prevent or stop what is happening - and in an attack they'd continue until something forces a stop.

Only two things might make it an accident - the driver losing consiousness or the vehicle having major malfunctions. Neither of which give reason for he driver to run and in fact would likely make them one of the injured.

If the Police already believe it was deliberate then Id believe them.

 

[vsMIC]

if it is an attack, that's it then for Merkel's re-election next year ...

 

[Tugatrix]

Yeah. Sorry.

No problem man, this misinterpretations happen all the time with everyone