False Alarm at the Breitscheidplatz Christmas Market

Almost exactly three years ago, an Islamic terrorist drove a truck into the crowd at the Breitscheidplatz Christmas market in Berlin, killing twelve people and wounding dozens more.

Earlier this evening a false alarm caused the evacuation of hundreds of people from the same Christmas market. Many thanks to MissPiggy for translating this report, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

The accompanying article from Bild, also translated by MissPiggy:

Three Years After the Terrorist Attack in Berlin:

Police evacuate Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz

  • Two men arrested
  • Concert in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche stopped
  • Regional train traffic stopped at nearby Zoologischer Garten

by Peter Rossberg

Fears of new terror in Berlin! Berlin police evacuated the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz on Saturday evening — apparently because of the strong suspicion of a new terrorist attack.

According to information in the newspaper BILD, two Islamist perpetrators were arrested. One of the two persons is said to come from North Rhine-Westphalia. The second suspect is to be sought in the USA with warrant for his arrest for offences with explosives. Both are apparently being listed as potential attackers (note: explosives). The arrested persons are said to be Syrians.

After the Christmas market was cleared, an event in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church was also brought to an end. Here the Bach Choir had just performed the traditional Christmas Oratorio. The police reported that all visitors had left the Christmas market “calmly and sensibly”. The area is currently being searched.

A concert visitor told BILD: “Some of them were just putting on their coats. We just drank a mulled wine and stood on Tauentzienstraße, where they started to clear the area and were directing people towards Hardenbergstraße.”

As part of the police investigation, train traffic at the nearby Zoologischer Garten station was also suspended. The stop at this station will be cancelled until further notice — this applies to the S-Bahn lines S3, S5 and S7.

On December 19, 2016, the Islamist assassin Anis Amri committed an attack on this very Christmas market, and crashed into the visitors to the market with a hijacked truck. Twelve people died in the attack.

Video transcript:

00:06   False Alarm at Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz Christmas Market
00:10   Saturday evening the Christmas market and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church were evacuated.
00:18   According to information received by The BILD, there have been two arrests.
00:22   Initially there were references to a suspicious object,
00:26   but later in the evening the police gave the all-clear.
00:31   There had been a error in the name-matching of one of the men.
00:37   The suspicion that one of the men had an open arrest warrant was not confirmed.
 

6 thoughts on “False Alarm at the Breitscheidplatz Christmas Market

  1. Well, they should pat themselves on the back for being so culturally enriched. And continue to vote for any party except the one that will do anything about it.

  2. They did This awfull mess to themself voting for Merkel over and over again, now they are paying the price big time , I always tough Germans are smart , intelligent people, to protect the beauty of thier country, unfortunately they allow to this disaster to happened ..,

      • Enough for this disaster, it’s absolutely catastrophic what she did Her last term, she should be removed from the office immediately, but that was the plan unfortunately..

  3. Not to forget the bearded sixteen year old Muslim illegals who look more like they are forty six and yet take these chicks and younger to bed on an as needed basis. Ordered by the stateless. Doesn’t leave much to the imagination now about their relationships with the Nazis. To-day is a Swedish war vehicle manned by first or second rate first or second generation jehadi Swedish citizens – going to run straight into a packed kufar vessel on the high seas. Or the North Sea. Or anywhere. The fact that it could even be a question is a total mind-duck. No wait. The US and UK are still open to white refugees and reality is growing fast too.

    • We don’t need any refugees from Sweden; after all, look what they did with Minnesota.

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