Kildare woman living in Berlin says terrorist attack won't force her to leave

A Maynooth native living in Berlin said a terrorist attack won't force her to leave Germany.

Trinity College graduate Alicia Geoghegan revealed she first found out about the December 19 atrocity from her dad who contacted her from back home in Co Kildare.

She said: "I received the news from my dad back home checking how I was."

A truck was deliberately driven into the Christmas market beside Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, killing 12 people and injuring 56 others.

The perpetrator was Anis Amri, a Tunisian failed asylum seeker who was killed four days later in a shootout with police near Milan in Italy.

Speaking about the attack, Alicia told an RTE Radio One programme about ex-pats living abroad: "It was quite scary. You just text all your friends and colleagues to see if they are OK."

Alicia said the incident won't force her to leave Berlin because that is exactly what terrorists are trying to achieve.

However