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Berlin: amok driver apparently expresses himself confused

2022-06-09T06:53:23.602Z


According to Mayor Giffey, the death drive from Berlin was an "amoktat by a severely mentally impaired person". An interpreter should help during the interrogation.


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Car in front of the destroyed shop window: several injured

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According to the Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD), the alleged amok driver from Berlin expressed his confusion about what happened on Wednesday.

With the help of an interpreter, attempts are being made to "find out more from the sometimes confused statements he makes," Giffey said in the morning on RBB Inforadio.

The deadly incident involving a car on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm is classified by politicians as a rampage.

Giffey said the police investigation had made it clear "that it was the killing spree of a severely mentally impaired person."

That "compacted" on Wednesday evening.

Giffey spoke of a "dark day in the history of Berlin".

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Berlin's Interior Senator Iris Spranger had previously described the death drive as an "amoktat".

In the incident on Wednesday morning, a woman was killed and several people were injured, some of them critically.

Scholz had tweeted on Wednesday evening: "The cruel amok attack on Tauentzienstrasse affects me deeply." It also said: "The trip of a Hessian school class to Berlin ends in a nightmare.

We think of the families of the dead and the injured, including many children.

I wish you all a speedy recovery.«

In his act, the driver killed a teacher from Hesse on Wednesday morning and injured 14 people, mainly from the associated group of students.

Several youths were critically injured.

Poster found in car

According to SPIEGEL information, the man's name is Gor H., he is 29 years old and has a German and an Armenian passport.

He is said to have been registered in Berlin for more than ten years, most recently on the third floor of a residential building in the North Charlottenburg district.

He was questioned by the police and taken to a hospital.

A poster was found in the car directed against Turkey, which committed genocide against the Armenians in World War I.

It is unclear whether it belongs to Gor H. or his sister, who owns the car.

The police investigations are conducted by a homicide commission, not by state security, which would be responsible for a politically motivated crime.

On Wednesday, among other things, the driver's apartment in Charlottenburg was searched.

The man is said to have been known to the police for several crimes, but not in connection with extremism.

ptz/dpa

Source: spiegel

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