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A lorry has ploughed into a busy Christmas market in the heart of Berlin, killing nine people and injuring many more, police say. Police say they suspect it was a deliberate attack. Video shows stalls knocked over and people lying injured. A suspicious person has been arrested nearby, while a passenger was found dead, police say. The market is at Breitscheidplatz, close to the Kurfuerstendamm, the main shopping street in the city's west. Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, tweeted to say: "We are in mourning for the dead and hope that the many injured can get help."
There are now reports from local police that 12 people have been confirmed killed in the attack.
https://twitter.com/polizeiberlin/status/810940347006197760
A man stormed into a Zurich mosque on Monday evening and opened fire on people praying, injuring three, Swiss police said.
They said they had collected evidence inside the building and would make more details available on Tuesday. They declined to comment on the potential motive.
Two of the three men -- aged 30, 35 and 56 -- were seriously injured in the attack shortly after 5:30 p.m. local time (1630 GMT) near the main train station in Switzerland's financial capital, Zurich police said.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @08:29AM
Then in present times, hearing and reading about towns where they wouldn't have Christmas trees, just so that they don't hurt feelings of non-ChristiansThen in present times, hearing and reading about towns where they wouldn't have Christmas trees, just so that they don't hurt feelings of non-Christians
That doesn't even make sense, the "Christmas" tree is not related to Christianity, but stolen from older winter solstice traditions. If it had anything to do with Christ, it would have been a palm tree.
Up here we celebrate Yule (Danish: Jul), and our Yule-tree looks just about the same as your Christmas tree, though we have birds (glass or plastic, not living birds) among the things decorating the tree. Both the birds and the tree represent the celebration of the calendar starting to go towards longer days and spring. Oh, and guess why Yule falls just a few days after the shortest day of the year...
The Christmas tree has as much to do with Christmas as Santa Claus, representing consumerism dressed in the corporate colors of the Coca Cola Company.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Saturday December 24 2016, @04:09AM
To be fair, there's probably not much about Christianity that isn't stolen; floods, prophets, magicians, saints. Import the best traditions from all the other guys and Make Religion Great Again. It's gonna be yuuule!