BERLIN — The day after a truck plowed into a shopper-filled Christmas market, killing a dozen people and wounding dozens more, Germany continued to grapple with the aftermath: the shock of the attack, identifying the victims, tracking suspected links to Islamic terrorist groups, and debating whether the open-door asylum policy of Chancellor Angela Merkel shares some of the blame.
With investigators’ release Tuesday of the prime initial suspect in the rampage, a young Pakistani asylum-seeking refugee who arrived in the country barely a year earlier, Berliners were living with the terrifying fear that the killer or killers were still at large, armed and capable of striking again.
With investigators’ release Tuesday of the prime initial suspect in the rampage, a young Pakistani asylum-seeking refugee who arrived in the country barely a year earlier, Berliners were living with the terrifying fear that the killer or killers were still at large, armed and capable of striking again.