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Berlin jihad attacker still on loose, wrong man in custody, police sources tell German press

Dec 20, 2016 9:18 am By Robert Spencer

“The true perpetrator is still armed, at large and can cause fresh damage.”

That is doubly true since he believes that when he does damage to unbelievers, he receives blessings from Allah. “Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them and satisfy the breasts of a believing people, and remove the fury in the believers’ hearts.” (Qur’an 9:14-15)

“Berlin attacker still on loose, wrong man in custody, police sources tell German press,” Fox News, December 20, 2016:

The hunt is on for the driver who rammed into a Berlin Christmas market on Monday, killing at least 12, as authorities now believe they have the wrong person in custody, German police sources told the country’s Die Welt newspaper.

The Pakistani asylum-seeker taken into custody Monday and suspected of the attack has denied involvement, officials have said.

“We have the wrong man and therefore a new situation,” a senior police chief told Germany’s Die Welt newspaper. “The true perpetrator is still armed, at large and can cause fresh damage.”

During a press conference on Tuesday, Berlin’s police Chief Klaus Kandt said one of the victims appeared to have a gunshot wound.

Berlin police urged people to remain “particularly vigilant” and to report “suspicious movement” to a special hotline.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere — Germany’s top security official — said Tuesday that authorities have “no doubt” that the attack was intentional.

He added that a man arrested in connection with the attack was a Pakistani man who had entered Germany on Dec. 31, 2015, and arrived in Berlin in February. De Maiziere said the man had applied for asylum and denied to police that he was involved.

The man was identified only as 23-year-old Naved B. He was picked up around 1 1/2 miles away from the scene of the attack.

Der Tagesspiegel reported that the man was known to police for multiple minor offenses, but had not made the radar of anti-terror authorities. The dpa press agency reported that the suspect used multiple names, making it difficult for authorities to confirm his actual identity….

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  1. duh swami says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 9:24 am

    I hear German police are now raiding a refugee camp…

    • nicu says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 9:28 am

      No, they are worrying about the other Muslims !

      • Annemarie says

        Dec 21, 2016 at 4:26 am

        Yes,yesterday on TV France 5 in a program about the attacks, the conclusion was, that the victims were the muslims and refugees.

  2. nicu says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 9:27 am

    Videos are removed in germany – police says they should be sent to them – I can imagine why : I bet they will edit them 🙁

  3. Don Davenport says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 9:29 am

    When I visited Germany nearly 10 years ago it was noticeably infested with Muslims. It is now officially a sharia shlthole.

    • anon says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 9:38 am

      “The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France.”

      —Adolf Hitler, 2 April 1945

  4. Thelastvirgingoat says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 9:32 am

    See the Russians did it to swing elections for populist party’s

  5. duh swami says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 9:49 am

    Destroying ISIS and Al-Qaeda will not end jihad…Will not save the west tom the wrath of Allah…Only mass expulsions can do that, but PC is in the way…

    • Achmed says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 4:56 pm

      I vehemently disagree, duh swami. It is not “mass expulsions” that “can do that …”.. Rather, it is mass executions. Human beings are unsafe while a mohammedan survives.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 22, 2016 at 4:22 am

        If Muslims are not in the West, they can’t hurt anyone here.

    • Mong says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 10:10 pm

      Restricting their birth rates would also do it. Again though, the left are in the way.

      • Anne Smith says

        Dec 21, 2016 at 5:51 am

        Not much likellihood of that in UK while Muslims breed like rabbits and receive child allowances for each child, paid for by the long suffering British taxpayers.
        Very few Muslim men work, they are able to live off the allowances paid for children and benefits for their wives, (eg. one wife and 3 other “dependents”) which are extremely generous, particularly to those more accustomed to the poverty of Pakistan.

  6. Benedict says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 9:51 am

    This terror attack is yet another illustration to Mohammad and the epidemiology of evil.

    No other religion has as Islam the potential to turn its adherents into raging madmen. Poisoned by the dogmas of Allah and his messenger the twisted face of the devil shows up behind a steering wheel yet again, and everybody understands that that won’t be the end of it.

    Castrated by leftists, progressives and feminists the German people – and indeed all Europeans – are helpless while this corporation imports thousands of Muslims, indoctrinated with savagery, in their imperial ambitions to domesticate the whole world with leftist, multicultural nonsense.

    The hope that it is not too late to remedy the infection fades slowly away while the terrorist is on the run

    • Mong says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 10:17 pm

      Eloquently put. The left are our near enemy and we have to get very tough with them – totally invalidate them in fact – in order to deal with this. We owe it to future generations.

  7. Angemon says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 9:53 am

    The Pakistani asylum-seeker taken into custody Monday and suspected of the attack has denied involvement, officials have said.

    “We have the wrong man and therefore a new situation,” a senior police chief told Germany’s Die Welt newspaper. “The true perpetrator is still armed, at large and can cause fresh damage.”

    Tell me they’re not taking his word for it…

    • Ginger says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 10:19 am

      Oh, yes they are. He’s a ‘refugee’ and mad Mutti would be terribly upset a the suggestion it was one of her babies..

    • DFD says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 11:42 am

      Angemon says : “….Tell me they’re not taking his word for it…”

      Hi Angemon,

      No, but they are taking Merkel’s and her fellow regime member’s words for it! Reaction in the German alternative media? Along these lines: “If the perpetrator were blond and blue eyed, they’d (the police) have him within hours.”

      Differently phrased, but accuratly transliterated.

      • Achmed says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 4:58 pm

        Merkel and her Stasi … released the guilty party. They NEED a right wing European to frame. I am giving odds that they will get the job done.

      • Anne Smith says

        Dec 21, 2016 at 5:55 am

        According to the British media they could find no evidence that the Pakistani/Afghan had been in the truck, no DNA, no fingerprints,no contamination from the shooting.

        One’s heart goes out to the poor wretched Polish driver who was shot when the truck was hi-jacked, apparently he had been anxious to get home by Thursday to buy his wife’s Christmas present. So very sad and such a despicable crime.

    • Mong says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 10:22 pm

      What the hell is a Pakistani doing there in the first place? Why no deportation simply for entering the country illegally? This whole thing is really sinister.

      It’s too soon to have ruled out his involvement forensically, so yeah, they’ll be taking his word for it; the word of a man with a criminal history. Unbelievable.

  8. gretel says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 9:59 am

    Look for someone called mahomad.

    • Mong says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 10:26 pm

      Most of the country then.

  9. Ginger says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 10:15 am

    Presumably intelligence sources other than German ones will be the ones to come up with the likely perpetrators. I use the plural because there is no way this was accomplished by a lone killer. There had to be a planner for the target and how to reach it and in the dark, a spotter for a vulnerable truck, a competent long-distance driver (possibly under duress) until just before the target was reached. There will have been co-ordinated back-up, as in the Nice atrocity.

  10. Don McKellar says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 10:16 am

    How is this even possible?

    I am starting to think that Merkel’s regime is putting pressure on the police to try and blur this crime so they can spin it as not a refugee jihad. Elections aren’t very far away and Merkel’s regime is trying to crack down on Facebook and social media free speech with all kinds of threats of massive fines for “hate speech” under German law. This would be too much of a disaster if she doesn’t somehow try and throw a smoke bomb at it.

    • DFD says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 11:30 am

      Hi Don,

      you got it. The entire alternative german media suspects precisely that. And the mainstream media is already ‘opinionating’ and manipulating in that direction.

      Merkel already stated this “should not blind us to the fate of the many refugees who require ‘our’ protection…” I kid you not. Get’s better, she wants to lead a prayer for…. I save it, you can guess. She wants to lead, together with DeMaizaire a prayer !!!! Wonder if the church wont collaps.

      • RichardL says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 1:20 pm

        I am glad somebody shares my suspicions. I expect the guy to just disappear.

        Merkel has made a deal with the devil: Chancellorship for her soul and many Germans killed.

        • DFD says

          Dec 21, 2016 at 12:59 pm

          Richard, you may find this interesting, if not accept my apology for pointing you at something of no interest.

          You seem to be well versed with German matters, and I am writing about the upcoming civil wars in Europe and the US, or call it major disturbances if you so wish. One of the sections is or will be titled ‘The Rise of The Fuhrers’. When I posted about this I had to clarify a bit further down, so you will have to scroll down a bit, if it is of interest that is. If so, let me know your views.

          The link: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/hungarys-orban-to-merkel-we-wont-pay-for-your-error/comment-page-1#comment-1575488

  11. Shmooviyet says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 11:53 am

    @RCH: What you’ve written is terrible and needs to be told; I hope you will please write here often.

  12. marina says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 12:07 pm

    RCH you have enlightened us about the plight of the Hindus during the Muslim atrocities. I think if India didn’t come under the British rule the rich Hindu culture would have been lost to these barbarians.

    • Mac-101 says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 6:57 pm

      Do you think the hard core Hindu Nationalist would reinstate Sati/Suttee if they had power? Do they hate :
      Charles James Napier?.

      “Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.[To Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati religious funeral practice of burning widows alive on her husband’s funeral pyre.]”
      ― Charles James Napier
      .
      Also are the Hindu Nationalist fighting to maintain the Caste system in India? Not trying to be provocative; It just seems they attack the Christian Missionaries and converts from the Untouchables more than they fight the Muslim threat.
      .
      I really have no real idea what is happening and would highly appreciate your opinion.
      .
      Thanks

  13. common sense says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 12:43 pm

    We hear you RCH and conservatives in Washington DC are known to read JW. Robert Spencer was at one time an advisor to the DHS and hopefully will be brought back into the fold once Obama is gone.
    India’s plight with Islam has been detailed on JW before we do understand. I feel very blessed to be an American and BTW my boss is Hindu, best guy in the world.

  14. Wojciech Nowiński says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 12:55 pm

    Small piece of information regarding atack itself. The proper driver of the truck was shot dead beforehand, he was Polish from the city 15 kilometers from were I live. It was supposed to be his last job before Christmas.

    • Ginger says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 1:32 pm

      How very sad. My condolences to his family and to the Polish people.

    • Mac-101 says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 9:08 pm

      Amassing how the traitorous media leaves this little detail out. May G-d bless his soul!

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 4:34 am

      Yes–this poor man. My thoughts are with his loved ones.

  15. davej says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    The history of Islam is a warning we ignore at our peril. What we are seeing now is just probing and preparation, I have no doubt that the Jihadists would burn down the Library of Congress and all our institutions if they had the chance.

    The core of Western civilization, our ideas about free speech and democracy – all highly un-Islamic. Once the infiltration is over 20% the gloves really come off.

  16. Crusades Were Right! says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 2:17 pm

    I hope the German police are being “sensitive” to certain groups when they call for information about this:

    “The suspect is of appearance, and is believed to be a follower of the faith. While conducting the attack he was heard to shout: ””.

    It’s so important to protect (certain) people, dontcha know.

    • Crusades Were Right! says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 2:20 pm

      Oh dear! Some of what I wrote hasn’t appeared! Let’s try again…

      “The suspect is of [BLANK] appearance, and is believed to be a follower of the [BLANK] faith. While conducting the attack he was heard to shout: [BLANK]’”

      • Crusades Were Right! says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 2:21 pm

        There we go!

  17. simpleton1 says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 2:35 pm

    Makes wonder one wonder still if any connection, as a decoy, to take the heat of the chase away, and buy time, whilst the perpetrator can escape to a pre-planned bolt hole.
    Sounds like some one knows who he is, as clothes probably have blood stains, slip into a “friendly” taxi? and then onto a “safe house”/mosque.

    Even if not organised there seems enough of other religious sorts to opportunistically to freely assist.the killer, like throw a burka/ over him?

  18. JawsV says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    Anyone just not automatically believe the German police? I wouldn’t be surprised if Merkel had a (bloody) hand in releasing the Pakistani.

  19. Achmed says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 5:18 pm

    These atrocities must not be forgotten. For centuries, human beings have cried for India. Moreover, the bravery of the Indian people shall never be forgotten. They fought, in many areas, at great loss of life and treasure … the vile subhuman mohammedans. The pain and glory of India shall never be forgotten.

  20. Mirren10 says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 7:04 pm

    ”The Pakistani asylum-seeker taken into custody Monday and suspected of the attack has denied involvement, officials have said.

    “We have the wrong man and therefore a new situation,”

    So, they’re just going to take his word for it ? Dear God, no wonder we’re in the mess we’re in.

  21. Mac-101 says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 9:18 pm

    Thank you for the two outstanding posts. Please write more from your Indian/Hindu perspective. I served with a very intelligent Indian in the US Army and he stated theTaj Mahal was really a Hindu Temple converted over to a mosque with the Minuets added. He said the bottom floor/foundation/basement, can’t remember, was sealed and the proof of it was there. You ever heard that one?

    • Anne Smith says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 5:58 am

      Isn’t that what they tried to do at Ground Zero in New York?

      That they couldn’t succeed was entirely due to the courage and determination of Pamela Geller and her associates.

    • Mac-101 says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 6:27 pm

      Ya, who builds a palace with 44 bedrooms for a mausoleum? Thanks for the reply.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 4:28 am

      Yes, I’ve heard that there are Hindu inscriptions in the lower level of the Taj Mahal–certainly, the design is pure Hindu. This would not surprise me–Muslims have used Infidel Churches, Synagogues, and Temples as Mosques and Islamic structures many times before.

  22. Dov Berrol says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    Now you know why Israeli security forces shoot at terrorists’ legs when they start running away. Maybe the security guard at Ohio State University can teach the Berlin police force a lesson or two. Good luck in finding the jihadi that committed this crime – he’s probably comfortably being protected in some Muslim no-go zone somewhere in Europe…

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 2:41 am

      “Comfortably being protected in some Muslim no-go zone..”.

      Here’s the way I see it: if they weren’t blinded by PC then this would offer the *perfect* cast-iron excuse to surprise-raid-and-search **every damn mosque in Germany** … and indeed, every damn mosque in **Europe**.

      Plus ALL associated premises.. imam’s houses, bookshops, Islamic ‘schools’, Islamic ‘community centres’, businesses owned by head honchoes of mosques, etc etc etc.

      Swoop on the LOT of them and go through them like the proverbial bucket of salts. With sniffer dogs. I wonder what *else* they’d find, even if they didn’t find our runaway jihadi mass murderer (but they might; mosques are ‘safe houses’, always have been)? They might find *all sorts* of , er, *interesting* things, things that would lead to arrests, and prosecutions, and shutting down of mosques and deportations.

      In fact, I would hope that a *dog* – a really good one, army-trained – was given a good, long sniff of the driver’s seat and steering wheel of that *truck* before anyone else went near it. That would be the way to go. Dog first; then the forensics people to sweep for DNA samples – hair, skin flakes, whatever.. Saliva on a water-bottle. There has to *something*. We all ‘shed’ all the time. We leave DNA all over the place. How long was this bloke in the truck?

  23. JDow says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 4:19 am

    The police taking him at his word that he is innocent are utter damn fools or are tied by laws that are asinine.

    However, if they “believe” him or he is not the attacker then the police get to investigate lots of other potential attackers and perhaps accidentally forestall another attack. This fellow apparently is definitely a danger given his spew; but, maybe they can use him as a judas goat.

    {^_^}

  24. gravenimage says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 4:32 am

    Yes, Nalanda was a terrible Muslim atrocity, and should be better known in the West.

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