This is breaking on German Press online and not yet in US Press; A translation summary from my brother whose fluent.
some crazy man in a car today totally drove his car around several times and then through the security cardon that’s been set up around the Siegessäule. Once inside, he then drove around the Siegessäule, dumping red powder out of his car, before ramming the security fence around the Siegessäule itself. People on the scene, who were setting up the whole security fence, stage for the speech, etc., stopped the guy by throwing pieces of the barricades onto his car. After he was taken into custody, bomb squad personnel searched the car, but gave the all clear when they couldn’t find anything. There’s no word yet on motive, or on what the red powder was, but it’s being investigated by LKA-5 Polizeilicher Staatsschutz, the police unit in Berlin responsible for combating politically motivated criminal acts.
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