Forensic information released by German police point to Polish truck driver Lukasz Urban as the hero of the Berlin Christmas market massacre, a man who died fighting and may have saved countless lives.
Urban was the rightful driver of the truck hijacked for the massacre. According to the UK Daily Mail, he was on his way back to his wife Zuzanna and their 17-year-old son in the Polish border town of Roznowo, and hoped to be home by Thursday to prepare for Christmas.
The owner of the trucking firm for which he worked, Ariel Zurawski, who is also Urban’s cousin, said the driver was last heard from after parking at a depot in Friedrich-Krause-Ufer for a meal. The last known photograph of him was taken about 2:00 p.m. at a kebab shop.
Urban was in the process of delivering steel to a branch of the Thyssenkrupp Company in Berlin, according to the Associated Press. He was running a day ahead of schedule, so the company turned him away on Monday and told him to return on Tuesday to unload his cargo.
“When I spoke to him he was saying it was a strange area of Berlin because it was full of Muslims. The only Germans he came into contact with were those at the depot,” said Zurawski, who suggested these comments were meant humorously.
Tragically, the Associated Press reported that Urban tried to call his wife around 3:00 p.m., but she was busy. No one answered the phone when she tried to call him back an hour later.
The company has said GPS data from the truck shows it…