In Magdeburg, at the Christmas market, a car drives quickly between the stalls, bypassing barriers, vomiting people. The driver was immediately arrested.
The car that crashed into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on the night of December 20 was driven by a 49-year-old man from Saudi Arabia. As Welt wrote, citing security sources, the incident was tentatively classified as an “attack.”
The suspect was arrested and is now in jail.
The attacker is known to have rented a car before driving it into the crowd at the fair. Officers also found luggage in the passenger seat of the vehicle. It is being tested for explosives. It is also known whether the detainee acted independently.
“The car drove about 400 meters through the fairgrounds before crashing into people. A vehicle, likely a BMW, is still at the scene,” Welt writes.
As a result of the incident, according to the latest data, between 60 and 80 people were injured. Magdeburg police confirmed the information about the two deaths.
According to Bild, the suspect arrested in Magdeburg was not known to German authorities as an Islamist. According to the publication, the man was born in 1974 and is from Saudi Arabia. In Germany, a man worked as a doctor in a local clinic. He is a psychiatrist. Lived in Germany since 2006. In July 2016 he was recognized as a refugee.
Magdeburg, located west of Berlin, is the capital of Saxony-Anhalt and has approximately 240,000 inhabitants.
Earlier it was reported that at a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg, located in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, a man drove a car into a crowd of people.
We remind you that in Szczecin, Poland, a car driver at a pedestrian crossing hit dozens of people and fled the scene, causing an accident with four other cars.
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