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German police said they detained a 54-year-old man who collided with a car at the door of the German chancellery in central Berlin in what appeared to be a protest.
“The car is at the gate. We are seeing if he knowingly drove it there,” a police spokeswoman said, adding that it was unclear if there had been any damage.
On the side of the dark green Volkswagen was painted “Stop Globalization Policy,” while on the driver’s side was scrawled “Damn murderers of children and the elderly.”
The vehicle, which did not appear damaged, knocked on doors where concrete slates were erected as an additional security measure to prevent vehicles from forcibly entering the site of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office.
German media reported that the same vehicle had attempted to enter the security perimeter in 2014, in what appeared to be a protest against global warming.
The car carried the slogan “stop climate change that is killing people.”
A 48-year-old man was arrested for that incident.
A spokesman for the Berlin police said the incident at the chancellery is not considered an attack.
Europe is on high alert after suspected Islamist militants killed eight people in Paris, Nice and Vienna in recent weeks.
Yesterday, the Swiss police identified a Swiss woman, who stabbed a person in the neck and grabbed another by the throat in a department store in Lugano, as a known jihadist.
The 28-year-old was arrested after the attack.
“The perpetrator is known to @FedpolCH,” federal police said on Twitter. “It appeared in a police investigation in 2017 in relation to jihadism.”
The regional police had already mentioned a possible terrorist motive behind the attack.
The woman was dominated by customers in the store before the officers arrived.
Swiss federal police said criminal proceedings were underway.
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