A car plowed into a crowded street market in the center of an eastern German city. They suspect it was an attack. The police are looking for explosives.
A car ran over this friday to dozens of people at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg. German media speak of a balance of at least 2 dead and more than 60 injured, 15 seriously. The driver is detained.
Everything happened quickly, unexpectedly. A black BMW car rammed at full speed against barriers surrounding the Magdeburg street market. In his wake he ran over dozens of people. According to witnesses, he was going in a zigzag pattern to run over all possible victims. It would have traveled 400 meters.
A spokesman for the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Mathias Schüppesuggested that the fact “It is surely an attack.” Quickly, ambulances, medical personnel and police officers arrived and set up tents in the area to care for the victims. The driver was arrested shortly after.
He driver has 50 years old and is originally from Saudi Arabia, reported the Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer. According to German media, he is a doctor and arrived in the country in 2006.
Magdeburg police closed and cordoned off the Christmas market in the center of this eastern German city. According to the German media Bild, Local police are searching the cordoned off area of the Christmas market in search of explosives. The motives for the attack are still unknown.
The word of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
The chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz who could visit the site of the attack, anticipated a prognostic email for the victims of the attack. In his X account (exTwitter) he stated that “reports from Magdeburg suggest that something terrible is coming.”
He then sent a message to those who were hit by the black car. “My thoughts are with the victims and their families. We are at your side and at the side of the people of Magdeburg. My thanks to the selfless first responders in these distressing hours,” he wrote.
Source: Ambito
