Breaking News Today: Five people, among them a child, were killed and more than 200 others were injured in the wake of a car rampage at a Christmas market in Germany City eastern city of Magdeburg, authorities report.
Criticities, many people were injured, said Reiner Haseloff, the premier of Saxony-Anhalt state during an interview with reporters on Saturday. German media said thirty-one people were severely injured.
Haseloff said this while briefing the Nation’s press on Friday and was able to reveal some details about the suspect, who was arrested, is a 50 year old Saudi citizen who has been living in Germany City since 2006 working as a doctor.
Child among 5 dead, over 200 injured after car attack in Germany
He stated that during a preliminary assessment it appears the alleged attacker was a lone wolf. He could not discount more deaths because of the many people who were reported injured.
It has not been identified whether the shooter had a political agenda – while he does not have connections with Islamist extremism – facebook and other posts on the Internet indicate the man hated Muslims.
There are countless pictures and videos capturing several vehicles belonging to the emergency services municipalities while people are seen lying on the ground at the scene.
There was then additional video of armed police approach and apprehending a man, walking some of the footage showing him lying on the ground next to a stopped car.
New York Post Fake news in social media producing unverified videos of a caring a market place, the incident has created caused a scene.
According to city authorities, about 100 policemen, doctors and fellows, and fifty persons from the rescue service arrived at the spot.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said: I stand with the victims and their families.” We are with them and with all Magdeburg inhabitants.) My thanks to all the emergency services at this time.”
The city was visited by Scholz on Saturday. A memorial service for the victims will be held in Magdeburg Cathedral.
During an interview with German paper Bild, Nadine said she was at a Christmas market with her boyfriend, Marco, when she saw the carcoming at her.
‘He was hit and pulled away from my side,’ the 32-year-old man said to the paper. “It was terrible.”
Lars Frohmüller, a reporter for German public broadcaster MDR, said to BBC Radio 4’s World Tonight: “I saw blood on the floor and many doctors doing everything to warm up the people and treat the wounds.”
German media named the suspect as 39-year-old psychiatry specialist, Taleb A, who resides in Bernburg, which is 40 Km from Magdeburg.
He was born in Saudi Arabia but came to Germany in 2006 and in 2016, he was accepted as a refugee.
He operated an Internet site to support others who had left Islam escape from oppression in their gulf States of origin.
It is proved by posts that he made on social networks, showed that the suspect has hatred towards Islam and supported various conspiracy theories concerning the plan to create an Islamic state in Europe.
At the time when the incident happened the Magdeburg’s football team was participating in the match against the Fortuna Dusseldorf team.
The winners of the game join hands in a line form in front of the crowd of people supporting the team. In a statement, the club said it was ‘saddened by the tragic events and the Magdeburg Christmas market’.
At the same time, a one-minute silence was observed after the match between Bayern and RB Leipzig in Munich.
Friday’s case raises the concern on growing cases of people being attacked at Christmas markets in Germany.
In the same year by December 19, Anis Amri, a man originally from Tunisia, who had had his application for asylum refused, and who had contacts with the IS, used a truck to kill 12 people and to injure 49 others when running them over in a Christmas market near to a church.
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