The attack on Magdeburg’s Christmas market, which claimed several lives, deeply shocked the residents of the area and the whole of Germany.
21.12. 14:26•Updated 21.12. 17:25
The streets of the closed Christmas market in Magdeburg, the center of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, are filled with flowers and candles.
The townspeople leave their greetings in disbelief and fear after yesterday’s incident. There are at least five dead, more than two hundred injured. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has arrived in Magdeburg.
The man named Taleb A by the German media has lived in Germany since 2006. The 50-year-old doctor of Saudi origin seems to have become radicalized in recent years. A man who worked as a psychiatrist applied for asylum after experiencing a threat from his country of birth and from Islam.
Injured around the market
from Magdeburg Anja Hoelzel says he saw how the injured were guided and transported away from the scene.
– It was moving. There was blood everywhere, it was extreme.
Anja Hoelzel was at the market with her 9-year-old son. The carousel ride ended in chaos.
– We were a little further from the scene. Everyone tried to help each other as best they could. We got mittens and thermal blankets. I wish it would never happen again.
You move Emil Ude can only say from his tears that what happened touches him deeply as a native city dweller.
– This really affects me. This is my city, I grew up here.
One woman who was there told Die Welt that the world is becoming stranger and stranger.
– Why is a peaceful event used to incite terrorism?
Source: AP, Reuters
The story was corrected on 21 December 2024 at 17:25: Olaf Scholz is the Chancellor of Germany, not the Chancellor of Justice.