2:50 p.m .: After the fatal incident with a driver in Berlin, the fire department is now talking about six people with life-threatening injuries. In addition, there were three seriously injured and several slightly injured, said a fire department spokesman on site. He did not give a total number. Five people were said to be in mortal danger. A woman died.
2.40 p.m .: The federal government expressed its sympathy after the fatal incident involving a driver in Berlin. The government was “very affected and shaken,” said deputy government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann on Wednesday. Thoughts and sympathy are with the injured and their families.
A spokesman for Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) also expressed sympathy for those affected. “Above all, we hope that the seriously injured and injured will recover,” he said. Investigations and clarification were under high pressure, but it was too early to talk about the background.
2:07 p.m .: EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola was concerned about the fatal incident by a driver in Berlin. On behalf of the European Parliament, she wanted to say “that our thoughts are with the relatives of the dead person and the survivors,” said Metsola on Wednesday in the Strasbourg European Parliament.
A car drove into a group of people on Wednesday on the popular shopping mile near the Berlin Memorial Church. One person died and five others suffered life-threatening injuries. The driver was temporarily arrested.
1:51 p.m .: The Berlin police have set up a personal information center. She can be reached at 030 – 84854460. Relatives can call this number to obtain information about the whereabouts of relatives and acquaintances who may have been injured in the accident.
1:35 p.m .: Other sources also say that a school class was part of the crowd into which a car crashed on Wednesday morning. The journalist Antje Hildebrandt wrote on Twitter that two teachers from Hesse were among the victims. In her post you can read: “This was reported to us by an eyewitness who took care of the shocked young people. “
And the German Press Agency is now reporting on a group of students who were affected by the fatal car incident in Berlin.
1:20 p.m .: A few hours after the fatal incident by a driver in Berlin, the exact process becomes clearer. According to the police, the man drove his small Renault car at around 10:26 a.m. on the corner of Ku’damm and Rankestrasse onto the sidewalk of Ku’damm and into a group of people.
Then, according to the information, he drove back to the intersection and almost 200 meters further east on Tauentzienstrasse. Shortly before the corner of Marburger Strasse, he steered the car off the road onto the sidewalk again, touched another car, crossed Marburger Strasse and ended up in the window of a perfumery shop at Tauentzienstrasse 16.
The driver is said to be a 29-year-old German-Armenian living in Berlin, the police said on Twitter. Passers-by held him and handed him over to the emergency services.
1:11 p.m .: As a police spokesman explained to “Bild live”, the fatality is said to be a teacher who was traveling with a group of students. He also said a 16-year-old girl was among the injured.
1:02 p.m .: According to the fire department, five people were critically injured in the incident with a small car that ran onto a sidewalk in Berlin. There are a total of eight seriously injured, said a spokesman on Wednesday at the scene at the beginning of Kurfürstendamm in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Five of them were in mortal danger. According to the police and fire brigade, one person was also killed in the incident.
12.45 p.m .: According to the fire department, the driver of the car is also slightly injured. “He also needs help from us,” said a spokesman for the “Berliner Morgenpost”. In the meantime, the police have taken the suspect away from the scene of the accident with a prisoner van.
12.40 p.m .: In the fatal incident in Berlin, the driver drove almost 200 meters further after the first collision with people. This stretch is between the corner of Kurfürstendamm, Rankestrasse and Tauentzienstrasse, where the car drove into a group of people and then came to a stop in the window of a branch of the Douglas perfumery chain.
It was initially unclear whether the driver covered this distance on the sidewalk or on the street. The police asks everyone who has photos or video material to upload it to their information portal.
12:36 p.m .: An employee of a shop at the Kurfürstendamm underground station, near the scene of the accident, reports to FOCUS Online of screaming people on the sidewalk. He didn’t see what was happening, but he knew from the background noise that it must be bad.
12:20 p.m .: There is a snack bar right next to the scene of the accident. Its owner said to FOCUS Online: “I was in the store, didn’t see anything, just suddenly heard a loud bang. Then I saw a car hit the Douglas store. Apparently he drove across the square and took a few flower pots with him. And he had previously hit people on Rankestrasse. I caught a glimpse of the driver, a short, stout, bald man. They arrested him. I saw several injured people on the ground. One man was unconscious, he was taken away by helicopter, and then others followed.”
12.10 p.m .: Berlin’s Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD) was shocked. “I’m in the situation center and keep myself informed. My thoughts and deepest sympathy are with all those affected!” Spranger tweeted on Wednesday. “I am shocked by the incident in Charlottenburg.”
12:00 p.m .: A car drove into a crowd in Berlin, according to the fire department, one person died and several were injured. The police spoke of more than a dozen injuries, the fire department of initially eight confirmed injured people. According to the police, the accident happened around 10:30 a.m. on Tauentzienstraße (near house number 13) near the Memorial Church and the Ku’damm.
Apparently, the driver had veered off the road with his car or deliberately left it, then crashed into a crowd on the sidewalk, then drove on and finally rushed into a Douglas branch.
The Renault Clio stopped there, people in the branch were not injured.
The police spokesman, Thilo Cablitz, said: “We do not know at this point in time whether it was an intentional act or a traffic accident.” The alleged driver of the vehicle was arrested by the police on site. He had previously tried to run away, but passers-by held him.
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