Magdeburg Christmas market attack: authorities received warnings about suspect
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German government to investigate whether more could have been done to prevent car attack that killed five

Police in Germany have said a man suspected of killing at least five people and injuring hundreds more after a car was driven at speed through a crowded Christmas market faces charges of murder and attempted murder.

The suspect, named by German media as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia who arrived in Germany in 2006, was remanded in custody late on Saturday after the attack in the central town of Magdeburg on Friday night.

  • lurch (he/him)English
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    22 hours ago

    I’m not a lawyer, bur AFAIK there are no “terrorism” charges in Germany, just “being part of a terror organisation”, founding, financing or supporting one. Germans are very specific about this. I have never heard of someone being charged for “terrorism”. The thing that comes closest is a “severe, the state threatening, deed”. But none of this matches this case, so far.