{"id":286567,"date":"2016-12-21T08:32:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T07:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/berlin-truck-attacker-may-still-be-at-large-after-police-release-suspect\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T08:32:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T07:32:58","slug":"berlin-truck-attacker-may-still-be-at-large-after-police-release-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/berlin-truck-attacker-may-still-be-at-large-after-police-release-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Truck Attacker May Still be at Large After Police Release Suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Pakistani man who was arrested after the Berlin truck attack, was released as a result of insufficient evidence, according to the prosecution. The attacker could be still at large, police said earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The German Federal Prosecutor&#8217;s Office has given a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.generalbundesanwalt.de\/de\/showpress.php?themenid=18&amp;newsid=652\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>\u00a0about the release of the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Holger M\u00fcnch, the head of the federal criminal police office, said at a press conference on Tuesday that \u201c<em>we need to work on the assumption that an armed perpetrator is still at large. As a result of this we are on high alert.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During a press conference on Tuesday, German Prosecutor General Peter Frank also expressed doubts as to whether the detained Pakistani was the perpetrator, urging investigators to begin their probe under the <em>\u201cassumption that the detained man was not the actual perpetrator and did not belong to the criminal group\u201d<\/em> that carried out the Berlin market attack.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Die Welt newspaper cited a high-ranking security source as saying that the Pakistani refugee was not involved in the attack.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We have the wrong man,<\/em>&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/politik\/deutschland\/article160462226\/Berliner-Polizei-Wir-haben-den-falschen-Mann.html?wtrid=socialmedia.socialflow....socialflow_twitter\">Die Welt<\/a>\u00a0cited a Berlin police official as saying. &#8220;<em>And thus a new situation. The actual perpetrator is still at large and armed, and can inflict more damage.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier\u00a0Berlin police chief Klaus Kandt also said investigators are unsure if the Pakistani man arrested shortly after the truck attack was actually the driver who rammed the vehicle into a crowd at the Christmas market.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;As far as I know it is in fact uncertain whether that&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/berlin-truck-attacker-may-still-be-at-large-after-police-release-suspect\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistani man who was arrested after the Berlin truck attack, was released as a result of insufficient evidence, according to the prosecution. The attacker could be still at large, police said earlier. The German Federal Prosecutor&#8217;s Office has given a statement\u00a0about the release of the suspect. Holger M\u00fcnch, the head of the federal criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-286567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}