Suspect in German Christmas market attack remanded
A guy has been placed under remand in custody. After he is suspected of killing four people and a nine-year-old boy at a Christmase. Market in Magdeburg, Germany, by colliding his automobile with them.
After a black BMW automobile crashed through the crowded. Suspect in German Christmas on Friday. Injuring over 200 people, the 50-year-old was taken to Magdeburg district court on Saturday night.
Investigations are ongoing, according to Magdeburg Police, and detectives are requesting that witnesses provide images or videos of the incident.
According to the local media, the suspect is 50-year-old Taleb al-Abdulmohsen. A Saudi national who came to Germany in 2006 and was a doctor.
Four women, ages 45, 52, 67, and 75, were also confirmed dead in the incident by. Magdeburg police on Sunday morning.
“For five counts of murder. Multiple attempted murders, and multiple counts of dangerous bodily injury, the judge ordered pre-trial custody,” the statement read.
According to city officials, just after 19:00 local time (18:00 GMT) on Friday. About 50 rescue service members, 100 police, firefighters, and medics arrived on the scene.
During the attack, witnesses recounted having to leap out of the car’s path.
One woman named Nadine told the German newspaper. Bild that she and her boyfriend Marco were enjoying the Christmas market when the automobile sped toward them.
The 32-year-old told the newspaper, “He was hit and pushed away from my side.” “It was awful.”
According to Lars Frohmüller, a correspondent for the German public broadcaster MDR. He witnessed “blood on the floor” and “several doctors trying to keep them. Warm and treat them with their injuries” on BBC Radio 4’s World Tonight program.
On Saturday night, Magdeburg Cathedral hosted a memorial ceremony for the assault victims.
Families of the victims, emergency personnel, and federal government representatives, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, attended the service.
Scholz called the attack a “dreadful catastrophe” during a visit to the market earlier on Saturday. Saying that “so many people were injured and killed with such cruelty” in a “joyful” area.
He assured reporters that “all resources” would be used to look into the attacker and that there were severe worries for the people who had suffered critical injuries.
The premier of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, previously stated that an initial investigation indicated the accused attacker was operating alone.
The inquiry is still underway, according to prosecutor Horst Walter Nopens, who also hinted that one possible reason for the attack “may have been disgruntlement with the way Saudi Arabian refugees are treated in Germany” on Saturday.
