Overview
- Staff and a security employee stopped the suspect at a parking site on Lehrter Straße in Moabit and used extinguishers to put out the fire.
- The damaged bus is now unroadworthy, according to the Berliner Stadtmission, which reported the incident on New Year’s Day.
- Police say a breath-alcohol test showed about 1.6‰; the 43-year-old was taken to the LKA brand unit and is to be presented to a magistrate today.
- Investigators are probing whether he is connected to the late-December arsons that left one Kältebus destroyed and another heavily damaged.
- Services continue through community support, including a €70,000 donation from the Deutsche Bahn Stiftung and loaned vehicles such as a bus from Gebewo, with additional replacements provided to keep three buses on the road.