SORROW AND ANGER
Surveillance video of the assault confirmed a black BMW driving at excessive pace straight by a dense crowd, operating over or scattering our bodies amid the festive stalls promoting snacks, handicrafts and conventional mulled wine.
Police mentioned the car drove “a minimum of 400m throughout the Christmas market”.
The sorrow and anger sparked by the carnage, during which a younger baby was amongst these killed, appeared set to inflame a heated debate on immigration.
The chief of the far-right Various for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel, which has centered on jihadist assaults in its marketing campaign in opposition to immigrants, wrote on X: “When will this insanity cease?”
“What occurred right now impacts lots of people. It impacts us so much,” Fael Kelion, a 27-year-old Cameroonian residing within the metropolis, advised AFP.
“I feel that since (the suspect) is a foreigner, the inhabitants might be sad, much less welcoming,” he mentioned.
Michael Raarig, 67, an engineer, expressed his sorrow on the website, telling AFP that “I’m unhappy, I’m shocked. I by no means would have believed this might occur, right here in an east German provincial city”.
He believed that the assault “will play into the palms of the AfD” which has had its strongest help within the previously communist jap Germany.