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The attack on Breitscheidplatz in December 2016 was the worst Islamist attack in Germany to date
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Another person died in connection with the attack on the Berlin Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz almost five years ago.
The 49-year-old first aider died on October 5th and is now buried at his last place of residence in Troisdorf near Bonn, his husband told the German press agency on Monday evening.
The RBB had previously reported on it.
This means that 13 people died as a result of the terrorist attack.
Immediately after the attack on December 19, 2016, the man rushed to the aid of visitors to the Christmas market at the Memorial Church.
He was allegedly hit by a beam and seriously injured in the head.
Since then, he has had to be looked after around the clock.
His husband died of an infectious disease as a result of the long-term illness, said the widower.
Name should also be listed at the memorial
Astrid Passin, who speaks on behalf of many victims and their bereaved relatives, has contacted the Berlin Senate Chancellery with a letter that is available to RBB and dpa.
In it, she asks that the name of the deceased also be listed on the steps of the memorial at the Memorial Church in Berlin.
In the letter to the MPs and the Senate Chancellery, she wishes, according to the RBB, "unbureaucratic implementation by the 5th anniversary on December 19".
The attack on Breitscheidplatz in December 2016 was the worst Islamist attack in Germany to date. The assassin Anis Amri, who was later shot by the police while on the run in Italy, drove a truck to the Christmas market and killed eleven people there. He had previously shot the truck driver.
After four years of examination, the investigative committee of the Berlin House of Representatives came to the conclusion that numerous errors in various security authorities in Berlin and in the federal government made the attack possible.
The main decisive factor was the misjudgment of the rejected asylum seeker Amri in the summer of 2016.
An investigative committee of the Bundestag had, among other things, analyzed the role of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and also found striking misjudgments of the assassin there.
ngo / dpa / AFP