Police ‘confident’ they’ll locate Berlin lorry assailant soon

“I’m flattering assured we will have a new think to benefaction tomorrow or during slightest in a nearby future,” André Schulz, conduct of a Federation of Criminal Investigators (BDK) told broadcaster ZDF on Tuesday evening.

He pronounced that he was not during autocracy to divulge serve information due to a attraction of a investigation, yet combined that there were “strong leads” and “a lot of starting points”.

Berlin military have perceived some-more than 500 leads from a open given a motorist directed a vast lorry into a swarming Christmas marketplace in Breitscheidplatz in west Berlin on Monday evening.

The lorry pile-up led to a deaths of 12 people and harmed roughly 50 more.

According to Schulz, investigators are looking into fingerprint and DNA justification as good as a justification supposing by a public.

The cabin of a lorry was lonesome in blood after a strange motorist became inextricable in a quarrel with a assailant and was eventually shot dead, several German news outlets have reported on information from investigators.

Investigators are also attempting to lane a attacker’s mobile phone regulating GPS data, according to Schulz.

“We have many ways of anticipating this person,” he said.

The conflict has been claimed by apprehension organisation Isis, yet they have constructed no justification to behind adult a claim.