Abdulmohsen. Police haven't cited a motive, but a minister confirmed that the suspect was “clearly Islamophobic.”
At least five people are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday.
Four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed and 200 people were injured when a car was driven into the market teeming with holiday shoppers.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said he considered the sometimes harsh criticism of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to be unjustified, news wire DPA reported.
A senior lawmaker from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats railed against Elon Musk’s interference in German politics and called for a new antitrust act to constrain his influence in the corporate world.
At least two people are dead and over 60 people have been injured, local officials said. Latest updates.
Police say the driver is under arrest after plowing into the crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least five people - including a 9-year-old - and injuring 200 others.
The suspect, identified by local media as 50-year-old Taleb A., was arrested after plowing a black BMW into a Christmas market.
Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela Merkel era.
The political fallout from the deadly car attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, where five people were killed on Friday, continued over the weekend, as the far-right party and its adversaries plan rallies on Monday.
Four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed and 200 people were injured when a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg — an attack that has left Germans mourning the victims and with a shaken sense of security.