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Berlin police classify car ramming by perp Gor H a “rampage’ – he was known to authorities but not for “extremism” only for being violent and mentally ill

What we know so far about the fatal car incident in Berlin

The police checked whether it was an accident, a medical emergency or an intentional act. As the “Spiegel” reports, the investigators currently consider the incident most likely to be a rampage. Berlin’s Interior Senator Iris Spranger announced that the suspect would be checked in all directions. “He knew what he was doing. He kept stepping on the gas,” an eyewitness told Der Spiegel.

According to dpa information, the perpetrator was driving a car that belonged to his older sister. He is said to have been known to the police, but not in connection with extremism. Gor H. is said to be violent and is said to have had mental problems in the past, reported the “Spiegel”. There are indications of a possible illness.

German-Armenian man, 29, who killed teacher, 51, and injured her students as he drove ‘full throttle’ into crowd of shoppers in Berlin had ‘posters expressing views about Turkey’ in his car as investigator claims: ‘This wasn’t an accident’

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Archaeology students given ‘dead bodies’ trigger warning

‘Infantilisation of universities’ continues as lecture participants notified about images of ‘human remains’ amid fears they could be upset

Archaeology students have been warned they will be exposed to images of “human remains” and funeral rituals during their lectures, amid fears it could cause them upset.

The University of York has included several “content warnings” to prepare students on courses where they will be shown the remnants of our ancient ancestors.

Those embarking on the university’s “mummification” module, for example, have been told that lectures will contain images of dead bodies and human skeletal material.

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No regrets over handling of Vladimir Putin, says Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel has said she feels no regrets for her handling of Vladimir Putin during her time in power, arguing that Russia’s president would have perceived a 2008 Nato membership plan for Ukraine that was blocked by her government as a “declaration of war”.

The former German chancellor also claimed that an oligarch-run and democratically immature Ukraine would have been less prepared for an invasion then than it is now.

“I would feel very bad if I had said: ‘There’s no point talking to that man [Putin]”, Merkel said in an onstage interview at the Berliner Ensemble theatre on Tuesday night – her first public appearance since leaving office half a year ago.

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One person reportedly killed, 30 injured as “German Armenian” drives car into crowd in Berlin … motive unknown

Moment German-Armenian man, 29, is arrested by police after repeatedly mounting pavement and ploughing his car into shoppers in Berlin

This is the moment Berlin police arrested a 29-year-old German-Armenian man after he ploughed his car into crowds of shoppers early today, leaving at least one dead and 30 injured.

Footage shows police leading the handcuffed man – dressed in a yellow hoodie, dark tracksuit trousers and red trainers – to a black BMW and shutting him inside. Just a short distance away, the man’s own car sits buried in the front window of a perfume shop, as badly wounded people he just ran over lie on the pavement.

The suspect, who lives in Berlin, is known to police for ‘property crime’, Bild reported.

Fire service spokesperson says about 30 people have been injured in incident near scene of 2016 Muslim terror attack

A car has been driven into a crowd of people in western Berlin, killing one person, the newspaper Das Bild has reported.

A spokesperson for the German capital’s fire service told Reuters about 30 people had been injured.

Germany: Car drives into crowd in Berlin, 1 dead

He said the suspected driver of the vehicle was detained. It was unclear whether the incident was the result of an accident or whether the driver had intentionally driven into the crowd, Dams said.

The incident took place close to the scene of a fatal attack on December 19, 2016, when Islamist extremist Anis Amri, hijacked a truck, killed the driver and then plowed it into a crowded Christmas market in Breitscheidplatz. The attack killed 11 other people and injured dozens of others.

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Says People Charged With Violent Crimes Are Guilty Because Prosecutors Say So

“When those charges are brought, these people are guilty,” Lightfoot said.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has repeatedly blamed bail reforms and local judges for exacerbating gun violence by releasing defendants back onto the streets, but on Monday she took her rhetoric a step further, saying that people charged with violent crime should be kept in jail because only guilty people get charged with violent crimes.

The comments, first reported by the Chicago Tribune, were part of a longer harangue against the Cook County courts and bail reform efforts.

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Sabrina Maddeaux: The indefensible Liberal plan to search your phone on a whim

 

This week, Toronto’s Pearson International Airport went viral for all the wrong reasons when former NHL player Ryan Whitney described it as “the worst place on Earth.” Many recent travellers would agree. It appears the airport is running a not-so-limited promotion where all fares include a tour through the nine circles of hell.

But if you think hours-long security and customs delays, passengers held on planes for hours without food or water, staffing shortages and cascading flight cancellations are bad now, just wait until border agents can search through your phone and laptop based on nothing more than “reasonable general concern.”

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Overturn of Roe v. Wade Will Create Surge In Witch Recruits Say Experts

How to make a thousand witches with one Supreme Court decision

… In her new book “In Defense of Witches,” French journalist Mona Chollet suggests women have come to embrace the epithet. Take, for example, a 1960s radical feminist group named W.I.T.C.H. — the Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell — to capitalize on this ideology. “The witch embodies woman free of all domination, all limitation,” Chollet writes. “She is an ideal to aim for; she shows us the way.”

It is this legacy of independence and social defiance that sits at the heart of modern witchcraft and led to its rebirth into a modern, and increasingly popular, alternative religion.

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Geoff Russ: The anti-Doug Ford left takes cues from the U.S. alt-right

In the aftermath of Ontario’s provincial election, unfounded accusations of voter fraud and other alleged plots have emerged across the internet. Within hours of the polls closing, Ontario Liberal and NDP supporters took a page from the alt-right’s playbook, and began spreading conspiracy theories to delegitimize the democratically re-elected Progressive Conservative government.

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US Catholic Churches Suffer Rash Of Thefts And Vandalism, But Cause Remains A Mystery

NEW YORK — It was on the afternoon of May 28 that Frank Tumino, a Catholic priest, walked into the sanctuary only to make a shocking discovery.

The 2-foot tabernacle at St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn was stolen in a burglary that left a trail of rubble and consecrated Communion scattered across the altar. Marble fixtures surrounding the tabernacle were destroyed and the head of an angel statue decapitated.

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