Germany, terrorist attack?

[abaris]

What I find remarkable is that this attacker is yet another small time criminal turned terrorist. All the recent attacks in Europe have been commited by small time criminals, who have been known to the authorities but not for terrorist activities. Also there seems to be more to that attack. The truck driver is rumored to have been murdered to get hold of his vehicle. Also this attacker tried to get away and obviously wasn't ready to die in the attack.

The sad thing, like with the attack in Nizza, you can't possibly prevent attacks on so called soft targets. Short of cancelling each and every outdoor celebrations, that is.