Meanwhile, we still have NO official account of what actually happened, not even any reliable binding statement as to where exactly the truck entered the market, or at what speed. We just have the clearly-forged Bild "dashcam video", plus several alleged eyewitnesses giving accounts that are demonstrably untrue; e.g., at least two separate and unrelated English "eyewitnesses" claiming that the lights were torn down by the lorry and that the market went dark. 1) The lights were not torn down. 2) The market did not go dark. Several films and umpteen photos demonstrate this for a fact:
Of course, the claim that the market went dark served to cover for the fact that none of them could give a description more detailed or informative than "It was terrible.".
And it is very striking indeed that practically all of these alleged eyewitnesses are tourists. German TV (Deutsche Welle) had to go to Sicily to find a guy who claimed he had been hit by the lorry; he had two slight bruises on his face and was sitting happily on his sofa with a permanent weird smirk while giving his interview -- in which he and his girlfriend said that the lorry had entered through the MAIN entrance on the Kantstr. side and not through the narrow gap on the Budapester Str. side.
1 min 35 secs, Italian & German, English subtitles can be enabled:
Honestly, now: Does Guiseppe Lagrassa really look as if he had been hit by 40 tonnes of articulated lorry moving at high speed? Or does he not rather look as if he had had a drunken altercation with a cop [or a kitten]? DW posted this to YouTube three days after the attack. And there he is, strolling round his living room in sunny Palermo, fit as a fiddle and happy as Larry. He says, "I was hit by the lorry". What a story! Yet the DW hacks don`t even bother to ask this remarkable survivor how hard he was hit or on what part of his body. (In the face?) Porco dio...
Meanwhile, German eyewitnesses to the incident are remarkably thin on the ground - practically non-existent, in fact. And get this: There was apparently not one casualty among the people working in those huts. Not one.
NB: I have yet to see a single interview with anyone WORKING at the market who claims to have actually witnessed the lorry tearing through there. All of those people -- all of those prime eyewitnesses, German-speaking Berliners with a grandstand view of the lorry`s route through the market -- seem remarkably reluctant to talk. Why? Even more remarkably, the awful German mass media seem inexplicably reluctant to interview them. Instead, they send a film team and an interpreter to fucking Palermo, 1,602 kilometres away.
So, nearly a full month on, the question is entirely justified: What the actual fuck?
