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On 19 December 2016, a truck was driven into a Christmas market beside Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin. The terrorist attack left 12 people dead. The perpetrator was Anus Amri, a [[Tunisia]]n [[fugitive]] and [[illegal immigrant]].
On 19 December 2016, a truck was driven into a Christmas market beside Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin. The terrorist attack left 12 people dead. The perpetrator was Anus Amri, a [[Tunisia]]n [[fugitive]] and [[illegal immigrant]].
== Government ==
Since German reunification, Berlin has been one of three cities (the others are [[Hamburg]] and [[Bremen]]) that constitute separate states within the Federal Republic. The Governing Mayor (''Regierender Bürgermeister'') is simultaneously Minister President of the Federal State of Berlin (''Ministerpräsident des Bundeslandes''), and other leading city officials hold the title of State Ministers.
The city-state government operates as a parliamentary system. It has a bicameral legislature, consisting of a House of Representatives, which is composed of elected deputies and holds most lawmaking power, and a Senate, which consists of the Governing Mayor and up to eight senators appointed by the mayor; it acts as Berlin's executive authority. The main government building is the Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall), located in central Berlin near the original medieval district.
The city is subdivided into 12 boroughs or districts (''Bezirke''), which are further unofficially divided into smaller local neighborhoods. Each borough has its own government, with a mayor, council, and assembly, but is subordinate to the overall city government. These boroughs are as follows:
* Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
* Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
* Lichtenberg
* Marzahn-Hellersdorf
* Mitte
* Neukölln
* Pankow
* Reinickendorf
* Spandau
* Steglitz-Zehlendorf
* Tempelhof-Schöneberg
* Treptow-Köpenick
Berlin has an extremely [[leftist]] political culture. Since the most recent state election in 2016, it has been governed by a coalition including the [[Social Democratic Party]], the German Green Party, and The Left (Die Linke)--the latter being a successor to the East German Communist Party. The current mayor is Social Democrat Michael Müller, in office since 2014.
== Culture ==
== Culture ==