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07 September 2019A car crashes at full speed onto the sidewalk in the center of the German capital, dropping 4 passers by and Berlin is shaking again in fear of an attack. It happened last night in the very central district of Mitte: a Porsche suv invaded the pavement overwhelming many people, leaving four dead on the ground, including a baby, and three wounded. No terrorist attacks this time, apparently. The police presume at the time that this is 'only' a 'serious accident', reports the German newspaper Bild.

The driver would have lost control of the car due to the high speed and for this he would have crashed into the pavement. This is currently the most accepted hypothesis. "Let's assume a traffic accident. The driver seems to have left the road and climbed the sidewalk," a police spokesman said. "A horrible scene": this is how the police spokesman described the scene of the accident, describing the blood shed between the victims and the pieces of wrecked cars that the rescuers faced. Next to the man at the wheel, who was seriously injured in the impact, there was also a woman and a six-year-old child in the crazy car.

In the incident, a newborn who was walking with his grandmother, who was also killed, and two other people whose identity has not yet been ascertained, lost their lives. The mother of the child, the driver of the vehicle and a third person were injured.
At least 40 intervention units, including firefighters and law enforcement officers, came to the site.

The incident occurred at the corner of Invalidenstrasse and Ackerstrasse, in a central and very crowded area of ​​the city, which was immediately closed to traffic. The centrality of the place of the misfortune made one think at first of a new episode of terrorism, like the one that occurred at the Christmas market in December 2016, when the Tunisian Anis Amri deliberately directed his truck to the crowd in the square in front of the Gedaechtniskirche, in the heart of Berlin, causing 12 deaths.

Unlike the case of today's episode, for which the police exclude at the moment any hypothesis of terrorist attack.