{"id":105918,"date":"2024-12-22T07:03:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/german-christmas-market-attack-suspect-remanded\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T07:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T07:03:09","slug":"german-christmas-market-attack-suspect-remanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/german-christmas-market-attack-suspect-remanded\/","title":{"rendered":"German Christmas market attack suspect remanded"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man accused of murdering four women and a nine-year-old boy by driving a car into them at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has been remanded in custody.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 50-year-old was brought before Magdeburg district court on Saturday evening following the incident on Friday when a black BMW car ploughed through the crowded market injuring more than 200 people.<\/p>\n

Magdeburg Police said investigations are continuing and officers are appealing for witnesses to send in photos or video of the incident.<\/p>\n

The suspect has been named in local media as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old Saudi citizen who arrived in Germany in 2006 and had worked as a doctor.<\/p>\n

On Sunday morning, Magdeburg police confirmed four women \u2013 aged 45, 52, 67 and 75 \u2013 were also killed in the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe judge ordered pre-trial detention for five counts of murder, multiple attempted murder and multiple counts of dangerous bodily harm,\u201d its statement said.<\/p>\n

City officials said around 100 police, medics and firefighters, as well as 50 rescue service personnel, went to the scene shortly after 19:00 local time (18:00 GMT) on Friday.<\/p>\n

Witnesses described how they had to jump out of the car\u2019s path during the attack.<\/p>\n

In an interview with German paper Bild, one woman called Nadine described being at the Christmas market with her boyfriend Marco when the car came speeding towards them.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was hit and pulled away from my side,\u201d the 32-year-old told the paper. \u201cIt was terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lars Frohm\u00fcller, a reporter for German public broadcaster MDR, told BBC Radio 4\u2019s World Tonight programme he saw \u201cblood on the floor\u201d as well as \u201cmany doctors trying to keep people warm and help them with their injuries\u201d.<\/p>\n

A memorial service for victims of the attack was held at Magdeburg Cathedral on Saturday evening<\/p>\n

The service was attended by families of the victims, emergency workers and federal government officials, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.<\/p>\n

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A man accused of murdering four women and a nine-year-old boy by driving a car into them at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has been remanded in custody. The 50-year-old was brought before Magdeburg district court on Saturday evening following the incident on Friday when a black BMW car ploughed through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}