Who is Naved B? Who was driving the Berlin Christmas market attack lorry and why was Breitscheidplatz targeted?
A STOLEN lorry has ploughed into a busy Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 and injuring dozens more.
Police detained a man they suspected of deliberately crashing the truck – but German media has reported cops arrested the WRONG man.
Who was driving the Berlin Christmas market attack lorry?
The lorry – which was was loaded with 25 tons of steel – had been driven by a Polish man.
Ariel Zurawski, owner of the haulage company to which the truck belonged said his cousin had been driving the truck for 15 years.
It is understood he was murdered by a Jihadist and his body discovered on the passenger seat.
Police said he had not steered the vehicle.
Zurawski said his cousin had parked up the lorry on Monday near to the gates of the company where it was to be offloaded on Tuesday morning.
The last time he spoke with him he told him he was going to get a kebab to eat.
He believes he was kidnapped and murdered shortly afterwards.
Police detained a man they suspected on having deliberately caused the deadly crash, named locally as Naved B.
German magazine Focus said that police special forces were storming a hangar at Berlin's defunct Tempelhof airport, which now houses a refugee accommodation centre.
The source said: "The real culprit is still armed at large and can cause new damage."
Who is Naved B?
The man named as Naved B by local media was reportedly born on January 1 1993 in Tubat, Pakistan and registered with authorities in Berlin in February.
It is believed he was using several similar aliases after arriving in the country though Passau, a city in south-east Germany which lies on the Austrian border.
Naved B was known to police, but for minor crimes – with no suggested links to terrorism.
The suspected attacker travelled through the Balkans with thousands of other refugees and was staying in Germany's largest refugee camp, the former Tempelhof airport.
He was arrested after the attack and taken overnight to Karlsruhe, the home of Germany's top federal prosecutor who has taken over the investigation.
According to Germany's interior minister, he is being interrogated but denies involvement in the attack.
Why was Breitscheidplatz targeted?
The lorry was ploughed into a packed Berlin Christmas market.
The festive market is in an area popular with tourists, near the capital's iconic Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.
Traditional Christmas markets are popular in cities and towns throughout Germany and have frequently been mentioned by security services as potentially vulnerable to attacks.
The crash happened at a square at the end of the Kurfuerstendamm Boulevard in the shadow of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.
The damage to the church in a World War Two bombing raid has been preserved as a reminder of the horrors of war for future generations.
Europe has been on high alert for most of 2016, with terror attacks striking Paris and Brussels, while Germany has been hit by several assaults claimed by the Islamic State group and carried out by asylum-seekers.
The attack in Berlin comes five months after Tunisian extremist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel ploughed a truck into a crowd on the Nice seafront, killing 86 people.
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