Defiant mourners in Berlin defend multicultural city


  • World
  • Tuesday, 20 Dec 2016

Flowers and posters are placed at the scene where a truck ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in the German capital last night in Berlin, Germany, December 20, 2016 REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

BERLIN (Reuters) - Residents of Berlin warned on Tuesday against making hasty judgements about asylum-seekers after a 23-year-old Pakistani man was arrested in connection with a truck attack on a Christmas market that killed 12 people.

Oliver Horn, a German architect, put up a poster in French next to a pile of flowers near the attack site in West Berlin reading "Meme pas peur" (Not even scared!), a slogan that was used to show solidarity after the Paris attacks last year.

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