"A car as a weapon: That brought back memories of the attack by Anis Amri on the Christmas market at Berlin's Breitscheidplatz in 2016 and a similar attack by an Islamic extremist with a truck in the southern French city of Nice. In December 2024, a man drove a rented car into a crowd at a Christmas Market in the eastern city of Magdeburg (Saxony-AnhaltSaxony-Anhalt) shortly after 7 p.m., killing a 9-year-old boy and five women aged 45 to 75."
"More than 300 people were injured, some seriously. The attack lasted one minute and four seconds, according to prosecutors. The trial of Taleb A*., a 50-year-old man from Saudi Arabia, begins Monday at the Magdeburg Regional Court. The indictment charges him with murder and 338 counts of attempted murder and of committing a "treacherous attack" for "base motives." Prosecutors said in their statement that they would seek the German legal equivalent of a first-degree murder conviction."
A rented car was driven into a crowded Magdeburg Christmas market in December 2024, killing a 9-year-old boy and five women aged 45 to 75 and injuring more than 300 people, some seriously. The attack lasted one minute and four seconds according to prosecutors. The accused, Taleb A*., a 50-year-old man from Saudi Arabia who has lived in Germany since 2006 and recently worked as a doctor in a forensic psychiatry unit in Bernburg, is charged with murder, 338 counts of attempted murder and a "treacherous attack" for "base motives." The indictment presumes he planned the crime alone over several weeks; prosecutors will seek the German equivalent of a first-degree murder conviction.
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