Germany: a car hits passers-by in Berlin, one dead and 8 injured – Le Figaro

The vehicle crashed into a window in a shopping district, without the police being able to determine at this stage whether it was an intentional act or a loss of control of the vehicle. A car crashed into passers-by on the morning of Wednesday June 8 in central Berlin, killing one person and injuring eight others, firefighters told AFP. Read alsoFailed attack on gas cylinders, the trial opened on Tuesday in Paris The vehicle came to fit into a window in this shopping district located near Zoo station and its driver was arrested, said a door – word of the police, who could not specify whether it was an intentional act or a loss of control of the vehicle. According to the daily Bild, the victim is a man and a photo published by the popular newspaper showed rescuers and police busy around a stretcher. The facts took place near the Memorial Church, a landmark monument in the western part of the German capital, located on one of Berlin’s busiest commercial arteries, the Kurfürstendamm. Many police were deployed to the scene, also located just next to the square where on December 19, 2016, an Islamist ram truck attack was carried out on a Christmas market, killing 12 people. According to local newspaper BZ, the car is a silver colored Renault vehicle. A photo circulating on Twitter showed a small vehicle, passenger door open, embedded in the window of a large perfumery chain. SEE ALSO – At least three dead and several injured in the derailment of a train in Germany