HOTEL SOMALIA ATTACKED BY CAR BOMB, GUNMEN; AT LEAST five DEAD IN THE CHAOS
“According to the current state of our investigation, this is an Attack of Islamist motivation,” the prosecutor’s workplace told the German news firm dpa.
Investigators said there were indications that the guy was suffering from mental health problems, according to Reuters. He seemed to have acted alone.
Witnesses said the guy stopped his car, a black Opel Astra, after the third turn of fate and pulled out a box that he said contained explosives, local media reported. He reportedly shouted “Allahu akbar” or “God is great” when he was taken out of his car. The Bild newspaper wrote that he also shouted, “No one is approaching, otherwise they will all die.”
Police arrested the suspect and found that the box contained only tools.
Prosecutors have revealed the man’s identity, as is customary in Germany, but local media have known the suspect as Samrad A. He’s under investigation for three cases of attempted murder.
The guy is known to the Berlin police, the Daily Tagesspiegel reported. He was born in Baghdad in 1990 and lived in a refugee home in Berlin. In 2018, he was arrested for injuring others and taken to an intellectual conditioning center for a short time, according to the newspaper.
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The incident caused long traffic jams on Tuesday night. Some three hundred other people were stranded on the highway for hours and were receiving from the German Red Cross, Berlin firefighters tweeted on Tuesday night.
The Associated Press contributed to the report.