Berlin, 20 December 2024 – Massacre at the Christmas market in Magdeburgin Germania. A car plowed into the crowd in the center of the city of Saxony-Anhalt. Videos released online show several people on the ground, people fleeing and panicking. The official budget is two deaths and about eighty injured. According to the Prime Minister of Sannonia-Anhalt, it is an adult and a child.
Ambulances intervene at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, where a car mowed down the crowd (Ansa)
Il driver of the vehiclea dark BMW, he was arrested by the police. This is a doctor of Saudi origin of 50 years who would have arrived in Germany in 2006 and would have acted alone, as lone wolf. He is a doctor and works in Bernburg.
A video shows the black SUV stopping and the man driving exiting the vehicle, raising his hands and lying on the ground, surrounded by officers pointing their weapons at him.
The authorities believe it was a voluntary act. “Probably a terrorist attack”, said the local government spokesman.
“At the moment There are no Italians involved – says the Foreign Minister –. We are following up with our consulates, we need to see what happens. I have now spoken to the crisis unit at the embassy, it happened with the German police.”
The wounded treated among the stalls
Several injured people are treated by paramedics in front of the market stalls. This was written by the Dpa agency, whose reporter on site reported that tents have also been set up where the injured can receive treatment. The market was closed and tram services in the city were also suspended. Emergency vehicles flooded the market area, the German agency writes, recalling that almost eight years ago, on 19 December 2016, an Islamist terrorist deliberately crashed a truck into a Christmas market in the center of Berlin, causing the death of 13 people and the wounding of over 70. The attacker then managed to escape to Italy, where he was shot dead by the police.
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