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The cause of the series of accidents on Tuesday on Berlin's A100 motorway was possibly an attack. The Berlin attorney general is investigating a 30-year-old man. Allegation: Attempted murder in at least three cases.
Martin Steltner, Spokesman General Public Prosecutor Berlin "Due to the overall circumstances, due to the behavior, the statements of the man, we assume a religious-Islamist background for these facts, I have to say, these acts. According to our current knowledge, the crime has all happened on the autobahn Beginning in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf area, ending in the area of the Alboinstrasse motorway exit. And there he is said to have targeted several vehicles, mainly motorcyclists, with his Opel car and injured six people, three of them seriously. One person, a motorcyclist , is seriously injured. "
The suspect is a native Iraqi who turned himself in to the police after his car came to a stop.
Martin Steltner, Spokesman General Public Prosecutor Berlin "We do not have any indications of a terrorist organization that he belongs to a terrorist organization. Of course, everything is being tapped We have no evidence of this at the moment, but of course we will be knocking off every detail and turning every stone there through the officers of the police state security and the attorney general who is conducting this investigation. "
The suspect is said to have been noticed as mentally unstable in the past.
Martin Steltner, Spokesman for the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office "This is also the basis for the question of whether he will be brought up to issue an arrest warrant today and will be placed in pre-trial detention, or whether he may be considered provisional placement due to his psychological state. A final decision has not yet been made but it will fall today later in the day.