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It’s the most recent sautomobiley selfie of a suspected terrorist posing in front of a car that was used in the Berlin highway rampage last night.
Six other people were seriously injured, three of them when Sarmad A allegedly rammed with his Opel Astra against several cars along a stretch of the German capital’s motorway.
About 3 hours earlier, suspect Sarmad A, 30, had posted on Facebook a symbol of himself posing next to a black Opel Astra.
He also wrote a brief legend next to the symbol praising God.
The riot saw two motorcyclists beaten around 6:35 p. m. local time before the attacker stopped his car, they were handed over and shouted “Allahu akbar”, according to the German newspaper Bild.
Sarmad A allegedly also placed a steel box on the roof of his and shouted “No one is coming or everyone will die. “
Berlin’s internal senator, Andreas Geisel, said investigators “assume this is an Islamist-motivated attack. “
Martin Steltner, a spokesman for the D. A. ‘s office, said, “The guy’s suspected of intentional motorcycles. “
Photos from the scene show the crashed car on the road with investigators searching the scene for clues.
The attacker is believed to be of Iraqi descent and is being investigated for 3 cases of attempted murder, authorities said.
A motorcyclist is believed to be in a life-threatening condition and three occupants of the car in which the motorcycle collided were also injured.
Investigators cited imaginable “religious” reasons for the incident, according to Bild, and a local prosecutor’s workplace official told the AFP that “Islamism” was an alleged motive.
“According to existing knowledge, this is an Islamist-motivated attack,” said a spokesman for German prosecutors.
He added that there were indications that the suspect of 30 years of Iraqi nationality had mental health problems.
A guy at the site of the wounds subdued and stopped.
The road closed when the box was inspected on the roof of his car, but only equipment was discovered in the box.
Some three hundred other people were stranded on the highway for hours and were receiving from the German Red Cross, Berlin firefighters tweeted Tuesday night.