Germany Mourns As Details Emerge About Victims Of Christmas Market Attack | EUROtoday

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — More particulars emerged Sunday about these killed when a person drove a automotive at pace by way of a Christmas market in Germany, whereas mourners continued to position flowers and different tributes on the web site of the assault.

Police in Magdeburg, the central metropolis the place the assault passed off on Friday night, mentioned that the victims had been 4 ladies ranging in age from 45 to 75, in addition to a 9-year-old boy they’d spoken of a day earlier.

Authorities mentioned 200 folks had been injured, together with 41 in critical situation. They had been being handled in a number of hospitals in Magdeburg, which is about 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of Berlin, and past.

Authorities have recognized the suspect within the Magdeburg assault as a Saudi physician who arrived in Germany in 2006 and had acquired everlasting residency.

The suspect was on Saturday night introduced earlier than a choose, who behind closed doorways ordered that he be stored in custody pending a potential indictment.

Police haven’t publicly named the suspect, however a number of German information retailers recognized him as Taleb A., withholding his final identify consistent with privateness legal guidelines, and reported that he was a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy.

Describing himself as a former Muslim, the suspect seems to have been an energetic consumer of the social media platform X, sharing dozens of tweets and retweets each day specializing in anti-Islam themes, criticizing the faith and congratulating Muslims who had left the religion.

He additionally accused German authorities of failing to do sufficient to fight what he known as the “Islamification of Europe.”

The horror triggered by one more act of mass violence in Germany make it probably that migration will stay a key situation as German heads towards an early election on Feb. 23.

The far-right Alternative for Germany occasion had already been polling strongly amid a societal backlash towards the big numbers of refugees and migrants who’ve arrived in Germany over the previous decade.

Right-wing figures from throughout Europe have criticized German authorities for having allowed excessive ranges of migration previously and for what they see as safety failures now.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is thought for a robust anti-migration place going again years, used the assault in Germany to lash out on the European Union’s migration insurance policies.

At an annual press convention in Budapest on Saturday, Orban insisted that “there is no doubt that there is a link between the changed world in Western Europe, the migration that flows there, especially illegal migration and terrorist acts.”

Orban vowed to “fight back” towards the EU migration insurance policies “because Brussels wants Magdeburg to happen to Hungary, too.”

Gera reported from Warsaw, Poland. Bálint Dömötör contributed from Budapest.