Germans Call for End of Merkel: Former Head of Federal Police calling for Trump to send US Army back to Germany

Right now TV reporting Germans calling for the end of Merkel.

Retired Head of Federal Police calling for Trump to send US army back to Germany.

Just watching German TV. Showing dead and injured. Dead bodies. Just horrible. 12 dead 48 very badly injured. Death toll could rise.

Die Welt reporting: Tragedy in Berlin: witnesses shocked

After a terrorist attack on Monday, Berliners are under shock. Many people were hit when a truck plowed into the crowd. The Christmas market is close to the popular shopping street, Kurfürstendamm.

Berlin on high alert as Christmas market attacker may still be at large

ByBy Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner, Washington Post, December 20, 2016

 BERLIN — The German capital was on high alert Tuesday as authorities feared one or more suspects may still be at large in the deadly truck assault on a Christmas market, an act Chancellor Angela Merkel decried as a presumed “terror attack.”

The only suspect in custody, a Pakistani asylum-seeker, denied involvement in Monday night’s assault that left 12 dead and 52 injured after a truck carrying a payload of steel careened into festive stalls and fairgoers in Berlin.Even as German police raised doubts on whether they had the right person, they accelerated efforts to study forensic evidence. It included analysis of blood stains within the cabin of the truck — turned into a weapon in a tactic used just five months earlier in a similar holiday rampage on the French coast.

In Germany and across Europe, revulsion and angst over the strike at a joyous symbol of the region’s Christmas traditions sparked governments to act. The holiday spirit was being replaced by muscle.

Italy said it would ramp up security for Christmas events including Pope Francis’ appearance at St. Peter’s Square. The Czechs pledged “massive” security at public events on Christmas and as the country rings in the new year. French officials said security at Christmas markets were immediately reinforced even as its lawmakers observed a minute of silence for the all-too-familiar tragedy in Germany.