Incident in Berlin city centre

This evening nine people have lost their lives and over 50 injured in an incident at a Christmas market at Breitscheid Platz in the heart of west Berlin. The irony of it so close to the Gedächtnis. Kirche.

The truck that drove on the pedestrian zone is said to have a Polish number plate and at 21.30 German time the police have announced that a suspect has been arrested. The passenger in the truck is dead.

Earlier today the ambassador of the Russian Federation to Turkey was murdered at a art exhibition in Ankara

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And then there are Trump, Wilders, Le Pen, AfD. Worrying times