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Har det framgått var lastbilen kapades? Nära Berlin eller redan i Polen? Det är ju ett minst sagt garvat tilltag att döda lastbilschauffören, enkom för att komma över fordonet för själva terrorattentatet. Att bara övermanna och ta lastbilen skulle leda till att den rättmätige lastbilschauffören påkallar polisens intresse, alltså måste han istället tystas - mer konkret dödas. Eller hur?
Att lastbilen skulle ha stulits i Polen, var misstankar från tyska polisen som inte längre verkar aktuella.
Sammanfattning här, chaufförens sista måltid verkar ha blivit en kebab:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/world/europe/attack-sets-off-hunt-for-tunisian-who-had-slipped-germanys-grasp.html?_r=0
His wife and co-workers became concerned that something was wrong on Monday afternoon, hours before the attack.
His wife tried to call him in Berlin about 4 p.m. She could not get through. Data transmitted from the truck about 3:45 p.m. indicated that whoever tried to start it did not seem to know what to do.
Mr. Urban, 37, had been on the road for more than a week when he left Turin, Italy, on Sunday. On Monday morning, he arrived in Berlin to deliver 25 tons of steel beams to a warehouse owned by a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp.
Mr. Urban had not been scheduled to deliver the steel until Tuesday, and was told to wait.
He parked on a street that runs along a canal opposite the warehouse. About noon, he called Ariel Zurawski, a cousin and the owner of the trucking company, based in the village of Sobiemysl, near the German border.
They discussed whether Mr. Urban could come home sooner. He had been scheduled to continue on to Denmark, and hoped to be back home by Thursday so he would have time to buy a present for his wife.
Two hours later, Mr. Urban sent Mr. Zurawski a photo of himself eating at a kebab shop.
At 3 p.m., Mr. Urban’s wife, with whom he had a child, called him, but they spoke only briefly because she was at work. It was 45 minutes later that the data transmitted from the truck turned strange.
“Someone tried to ignite the engine multiple times,” said Lukasz Wasik, the trucking company’s transport manager.
“It didn’t look like someone was trying to start the truck to warm it up,” he added. “It looked rather like clumsy attempts at starting it, like someone didn’t know how to do it and had to try a couple of times to work it out.”
Shortly after 7:30 p.m., the truck began heading west toward the center of Berlin. “We could see that the truck was on the move right away,” Mr. Zurawski said.
His wife tried to call him in Berlin about 4 p.m. She could not get through. Data transmitted from the truck about 3:45 p.m. indicated that whoever tried to start it did not seem to know what to do.
Mr. Urban, 37, had been on the road for more than a week when he left Turin, Italy, on Sunday. On Monday morning, he arrived in Berlin to deliver 25 tons of steel beams to a warehouse owned by a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp.
Mr. Urban had not been scheduled to deliver the steel until Tuesday, and was told to wait.
He parked on a street that runs along a canal opposite the warehouse. About noon, he called Ariel Zurawski, a cousin and the owner of the trucking company, based in the village of Sobiemysl, near the German border.
They discussed whether Mr. Urban could come home sooner. He had been scheduled to continue on to Denmark, and hoped to be back home by Thursday so he would have time to buy a present for his wife.
Two hours later, Mr. Urban sent Mr. Zurawski a photo of himself eating at a kebab shop.
At 3 p.m., Mr. Urban’s wife, with whom he had a child, called him, but they spoke only briefly because she was at work. It was 45 minutes later that the data transmitted from the truck turned strange.
“Someone tried to ignite the engine multiple times,” said Lukasz Wasik, the trucking company’s transport manager.
“It didn’t look like someone was trying to start the truck to warm it up,” he added. “It looked rather like clumsy attempts at starting it, like someone didn’t know how to do it and had to try a couple of times to work it out.”
Shortly after 7:30 p.m., the truck began heading west toward the center of Berlin. “We could see that the truck was on the move right away,” Mr. Zurawski said.
Vad som hände mellan 15.45 fram till 19.30 då lastbilen påbörjar sin färd mot julmarknaden, verkar oklart. Satt chauffören som gisslan i hytten ? Han ska ju ha varit i liv fram till själva attentatet.
