Attack on Christmas market
The public prosecutor commissions an expert report on the perpetrator
The authorities are investigating the death journey from Magdeburg. Now further details are becoming known.
After the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market, the question of the perpetrator’s guilt became the focus of the investigation. “We will commission a report on whether and how he is mentally ill,” a spokesman for the Naumburg Public Prosecutor’s Office told the German Press Agency.
The 50-year-old man drove a car through the Magdeburg Christmas market shortly before Christmas. Five people were killed and more than 230 injured. Taleb A., who came from Saudi Arabia, was already in the sights of security authorities before his death drive. He is in custody. The doctor’s apartment and workplace in Bernburg were searched after the crime.
The investigation is expected to take weeks. The focus of the review is, among other things, the police operational concept and the security concept of the Christmas market. This involves, for example, the question of gaps in concrete block barriers, the lack of securing escape routes with steel chains and the location of a police vehicle.
Will found in car
Upon request, the Attorney General’s Office confirmed that a will was found in the perpetrator’s car. This was dated to the day of the crime, said the spokesman. Whether the man wrote the will himself is the subject of the investigation.
After the crime, a rapid drug test and subsequently a blood test were carried out. However, the public prosecutor’s office did not want to comment on the individual results of the investigation.
The Federal Victims Commissioner assumes that at least 531 people were affected after the attack. Those affected are people who lost relatives as a result of the crime, were injured or were within the perpetrator’s area of influence, as the Federal Ministry of Justice announced upon request.
The victims’ representative’s staff has so far written to 372 of those affected. “In particular, all survivors known to state authorities who have lost a family member as a result of the attack have already received an offer of state support,” said the Federal Ministry of Justice, where the office of the Federal Victims Commissioner is located. This includes, among other things, an offer of psychosocial advice as well as information about other offers of help.
dpa
Source: Stern
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