A 24-year-old Pakistani identified only as Naveed B was named by German police and the interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, just hours after the deadly attack on a Christmas market on Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz, as their prime suspect. I told them I understood.”

By the time Baloch had been told he was off the hook, the police were already looking for Anis Amri, a Tunisian whose documents had been found in the footwell of the Scania truck that had ploughed into the market and who was later shot dead by police officers in Milan. Baloch was arrested on December 19 in the hours after the attack on a Christmas market in the heart of Berlin in which 12 people were killed. "I knew it was a matter of time before they came for me," he added, "That’s the reason I came to Germany.”

Following the Berlin massacre he also worries about the safety of his family, who live in the village of Mand in the Mekran region of Balochistan. He said he is afraid his family will now be targeted because the Pakistani nationalists and religious extremists will know he has fled.
Naveed Baloch, the man from Pakistan who was wrongly arrested in the aftermath of the recent attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, gives an interview outlining the conditions in which he was held and reveals he is now in hiding amid fears for his life.