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In Berlin, a driver collided with a door at the entrance to the Chancellery. He damaged at least two metal door struts with the front of the car, as reported by a dpa photographer Wednesday morning. The photos show how a truck is standing on the iron bars in front of the entrance. On the driver’s side of the apparently intact car, there is an insult written in white letters: “Damn children and old men-murderers.” On the passenger side it says “Stop globalization policy.”
The 54-year-old driver headed for the door shortly after 10 o’clock on Wednesday, “said Berlin police spokesman Thilo Cablitz. Without special permission, access to this area of the Federal Chancellery is only allowed to cyclists. This is indicated by a sign. However, it is a public street area. The entrance to the Chancellery is blocked by a door that can be sunk into the ground.
Officials of the Federal Police, responsible for the security of the Chancellery, detained the driver. The police know him and he is considered mentally ill. Your car is registered in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia. A wheelchair was also found in the trunk of his car.
Similar incident in 2014
According to information from police circles, it is the same man who drove to the Chancellery at a walking pace in 2014 and then stopped there. As in the current incident, a VW Golf IV Variant was the vehicle of the crime. The car was also handwritten with slogans: “End climate change that kills humans,” it said on the passenger side, “Nicole, I love you” on the driver’s side.
The motive of the perpetrator is unclear. Police did not initially assume an attack with an extremist background. “We are not currently working on this assumption,” said a police spokeswoman. However, it will be verified whether there is a connection with associations such as “lateral thinking”, which for weeks have been protesting, sometimes violently, against government measures to combat the corona pandemic. Some of these associations had called protests Wednesday morning on social media in front of the Chancellery and the Bundestag, including the conspiratorial vegan chef Attila Hildmann.
The incident occurred during the current session of the federal cabinet. It usually meets on Wednesday mornings at the Chancellery. In the afternoon, Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed further crown restrictions with the heads of government of the federal states. The German Bundestag, which is located near the Chancellery, also met from noon.
According to information from Daily mirror there was an excerpt copied from the magazine on the passenger seat of the vehicle Weekly look from Austria. The magazine is campaigning against the crown’s restrictions. The phrase is believed to be an article that linked the sudden death of a 13-year-old schoolgirl to the use of mouth and nose protection. Some prominent opponents of Corona claim that children die from wearing masks. There is no proof of this.
Merkel is not at risk
A government spokesman said: “At no time was there any danger to the Chancellor, the other members of the Federal Government or the people employed in the Federal Chancellery.” There was little property damage in the incident. The State Security of the State Criminal Police Office in Berlin took over the subsequent investigations.
