Captured Berlin suspect is a Pakistani REFUGEE, but police UNSURE he’s the attacker…

Police detained a refugee from Pakistan as a suspect in the attack in Berlin, but they’re unsure that he is actually the attacker.

Fox News ran with the story without any mention of the uncertainty from police:

More from the Telegraph:

German police have said they may have arrested the wrong man over the Berlin terror attack, and the real culprit could still be at large and armed and dangerous.

“We must get used to the idea that he was possibly not the perpetrator or that he didn’t belong to the group of perpetrators,” Germany’s chief prosecutor Peter Frank told a press conference.

Police urged people to remain “particularly vigilant” and to report “suspicious movement” to a special hotline.

“We have the wrong man,” an unnamed police source told Welt newspaper. “This means the situation is different. The real culprit is still armed and can commit further atrocities.”

The man arrested on Monday night under suspicion of ploughing a 7-tonne truck through a Christmas market in the heart of Berlin, killing 12, was named in German media reports as Naved Baluch, a 23-year-old asylum seeker of Pakistani origin.

Baluch has denied involvement in the attack, according to police.

He was picked up about 2 kilometres (1½ miles) away from the scene of the attack, near the Victory Column monument.

CNN was a little more cautious, but still had the information at the end of this video:

Given the few details we have, there’s little doubt it was a terror attack, but we cannot assume the attacker was a refugee. Some of the other horrible terror attacks in Europe have been home-grown, from people born and raised in Europe, but radicalized online.


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