Berlin christmas market attack: Pakistani suspect is not assumed to be the author of the crime . "We have caught the wrong man".
The Berlin police is not assuming any more that the refugee from Pakistan that is being held as a suspect in the attack with a lorry on the christmas market in the centre of Berlin is the author of the crime that has so far killed 12 people, the German paper "Die Welt" has been told by senior security officials.
According to these sources, the statements the suspect has made have been checked and been found correct. "We caught the wrong man", a senior police official said. "The offender is armed and at large, and could cause damage." The metropolitan police and special foreces have been informed.
No traces of blood of the shot lorry driver have been found on the clothes the detained Pakistani refugee was wearing. This would have been a logical consequence if he had shot the Polish driver, an investigator told "Die Welt".
Germany‘s Federal Prosecutor General Peter Frank confirms doubts that the Pakistani is responsible for the attack. Investigators have to „deal with the idea that the detained might not be the offender or part of the responsible group“, he told in Berlin. It is even unclear if there are more than a single offender.
