The vehicle hit people in Tiergarten Park, a wooded stretch near where the march usually wraps up,before crashing straight into a tree. Police spokesperson Florian Nath said officers are now hunting for a suspect they've already identified,someone described as known to police and tied to Islamic circles in Berlin, though he hasn't been arrested yet.Nath admitted investigators still don't know the motive, don't know the full sequence of what happened, and don't know exactly what role this man played.That's a lot of not knowing for a case already labeled an attack. Organizers pulled the plug on a live concert near Brandenburg Gate around 10:15 pm and told the crowd to leave immediately,steering people away from the park entirely.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz came out Sunday with a promise to chase down whoever did this and see them punished. Berlin's mayor,Kai Wegner, didn't hold back either, calling it a brutal attack on a rally meant to celebrate a tolerant, peaceful city,and saying it struck at the heart of an open society.
Emergency crews wrapped survivors in silver blankets as they held each other near the scene, and officers lit up the area between Potsdamer Platz and the southern Tiergarten tunnel deep into the night,combing for evidence. Berlin has seen this kind of horror before, not far from here, back in 2016,when a truck plowed through a Christmas market and killed twelve people.The search for the driver behind Saturday's attack is still moving, police say, at full speed.
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