Magdeburg residents lay flowers and weep for the victims of Christmas market attack

Record ID: 1891472

  • Title: Magdeburg residents lay flowers and weep for the victims of Christmas market attack
  • Date: 21st December 2024
  • Summary: MAGDEBURG, GERMANY (DECEMBER 21, 2024) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE AT VIGIL IN FRONT OF SAINT JOHN CHURCH NEXT TO THE CHRISTMAS MARKET PEOPLE LOOKING AT FLOWERS LEFT FOR VICTIMS CLOSE OF FLOWERS AND CANDLES PEOPLE LIGHTING CANDLE PEOPLE LAYING FLOWERS VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LOOKING SAD, STANDING QUIETLY BY FLOWERS POLICE VANS AND POLICE TAPE VARIOUS OF CANDLES AT CORDONNED OFF CHRISTMAS MARKET CLOSED MARKET VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LAYING ROSES CANDLES WOMEN CRYING
  • Embargoed: 4th January 2025 18:23
  • Keywords: Magdeburg Christmas market Saudi doctor attack mourners vigil
  • Location: MAGDEBURG, GERMANY
  • City: MAGDEBURG, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime,Europe
  • Reuters ID: LVA001883021122024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: People came to pay their respects to victims of the Christmas market attack in Magdeburg as flowers and candles near the site spread over the cobbled stones.
    The vigil took place at the Saint John church a day after a Saudi doctor with a history of anti-Islam rhetoric drove into Christmas crowds killing five people and injuring 205 on Friday evening (December 20).
    The fatalities were a nine-year-old child and four adults, Magdeburg city officials said, adding that some 41 of the injured had either serious or critical injuries.
    Authorities said on Saturday the motive was not clear. However a local prosecutor said one possible factor could be what he called the suspect's frustration with Germany's handling of Saudi refugees.
    The suspect, a 50-year-old psychiatrist who has lived in Germany for almost two decades, was arrested at the scene following the three-minute attack in the central city that shocked the country. Police did not name the suspect, identified by German media only as Taleb A.
    Authorities closed the market for the remainder of the season.
    (Production: Erol Dogrudogan, Petra Wischgoll, Claudia Doerries, Tanya Wood)
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