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An eyewitness to the deadly car crash in Berlin which left one person dead and 14 injured said on Thursday the driver apologized immediately after the attack, telling police “I did not want that.”

“Quite a lot points to a paranoid schizophrenia,” senior public prosecutor Sebastian Buechner told reporters, indicating medication and statements from doctors were discovered as part of the investigation. Berlin public prosecutors meanwhile said the assault by a 29-year-old German man of Armenian descent most likely did not have a “terrorist background.”

German tourist Markus Leppmeier assisted a lone policeman who showed up at the site moments later and helped the officer make the arrest and direct traffic as chaos ensued on the busy shopping street. “He was confused,” said Leppmeier of the attacker, adding “in my eyes he was not an assailant, he was a confused person. The policeman then handcuffed him.”

The incident took place in a busy shopping district near the site of a fatal attack in 2016, when a truck rammed into a crowded Christmas market.

Germany's Bild newspaper said the man had lived with his mother and a sister, who described her brother as having "serious problems.”

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