The corresponding statement is published on the department’s page on Twitter.
“Now our colleagues are involved in the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz and are conducting an evacuation to check the data on a possible suspicious item,” the Berlin police said.
In addition, it was decided to stop the event at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Gedechtniskirche).
Earlier in German Blankenburg, about a hundred children were evacuated from a kindergarten located next to the apartment building in which the explosion occurred.