Germany’s Merkel Says Full Force of Law to Bear in Berlin Attacks
- Germans in mourning after ‘horrific and unimaginable’ attack
- Anti-immigration AfD party lays blame at Merkel’s door
Merkel: We Have to Assume This Was a Terror Attack
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Chancellor Angela Merkel said that German authorities were working on the assumption that the deaths of 12 people after a truck plowed into a Christmas market were a terrorist attack, and pledged to use the full force of German law to bring the perpetrators to justice.
In a nationally televised statement in Berlin, Merkel said that people across Germany were mourning after the “horrific and unimaginable” deaths and injuries sustained in the capital on Monday evening. She said she planned to tour the scene of the attack later on Tuesday.