Death ride
The suspected perpetrator used an escape route to the Christmas market
A car races through a crowd in Magdeburg – in the middle of the Christmas market, shortly before Christmas Eve. The entire death drive until the suspect’s arrest lasted only a few minutes.
In the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, which left five dead and 200 injured, the suspected perpetrator is said to have reached the central square via the escape and rescue route. The journey took around three minutes until the arrest, said Tom-Oliver Langhans, director of the Magdeburg police station, in Magdeburg. According to authorities, four adults and a nine-year-old child were killed. There are a total of 205 victims, including 5 dead. According to the current status of the investigation, a second perpetrator can be ruled out, said a police spokesman.
In Magdeburg, a car drove into the crowd at a Christmas market on Friday evening. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) spoke on site of a “terrible, insane act”. The suspect arrested that evening was Taleb A., a doctor from Bernburg who comes from Saudi Arabia.
According to information from the German Press Agency, the 50-year-old, who has lived in Germany since 2006, describes himself as an ex-Muslim. According to dpa information, A. applied for asylum in February 2016, which was decided on in July of the same year. At that time, the Saudi citizen received asylum as a politically persecuted person.
Taleb A. was caught at the scene by emergency services and arrested.
dpa
Source: Stern
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