Christmas market attack: Charge for murder against Magdeburg perpetrator

The Attorney General Naumburg has charged charges against the death driver from the Magdeburg Christmas market. Among other things, she accuses Taleb A. six times murder and tried 338 people, as the authority in Naumburg announced. Five women aged 45 to 75 came to death and a nine -year -old boy. In addition, the Attorney General charges the man dangerous bodily harm.

On December 20 of last year, the perpetrator raced by a car over the Magdeburg Christmas market. According to the Attorney General, the attack lasted one minute and four seconds. The 50-year-old Saudi doctor used a 340 hp rental car. He was on the road with up to 48 kilometers per hour. Overall, he damaged 344 people.

When the process could begin is open. The construction of a new interim court building is expected to be completed in September. The lightweight building is being built on a state -owned property in Magdeburg.

Psychiatric report created

The man sits in custody, he had recently been laid several times. The Attorney General has commissioned a psychiatric report to clarify the question of guilt. The announcement of the indictment said that the assassin was not under the influence of alcohol while driving.

He had “apparently acted out of dissatisfaction and frustration about the course and the outcome of a civil law dispute and the unsuccessful of various criminal charges, with the aim of killing an indefinite, large number of people and groups of people who would get into the area of his vehicle”. The act was planned and prepared for several weeks, according to the results of the investigation. There were no accomplices and Mitwisser.

Political processing in the state parliament

In addition to the criminal investigation, there is also a political reappraisal in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. After the security concept for the Christmas market and the responsibility of the organizer, the city and the police went primarily, the MPs want to focus more on the perpetrator in the coming months.

Before the death trip, Taleb A. worked as a doctor in the execution in Bernburg (Salzlandkreis). His area of responsibility included the psychiatric care of criminals at three stations. At the beginning of February it became known that a colleague worried about the constitution of Taleb A. a few months before the attack and also passed this information on to superiors. Several security authorities also repeatedly dealt with the perpetrator, but he had ultimately fallen through all grids as an opponent of Islamists.