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Multiple Fatalities in Vehicle Attack at German Christmas Market

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A 50-year-old Saudi citizen, Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, is accused of ramming a car into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least five people, including a 9-year-old boy, and injuring over 200 others. The motive behind the attack is unclear, but al-Abdulmohsen was described as a fierce critic of Islam and had made online death threats against German citizens. He had been living in Germany for two decades and had received permanent residency.

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  1. US
    James David Vance
    Republican Party
    1. Our prayers go to the people affected by this terrible attack on a Christmas market in Germany. What a ghastly attack so close to Christmas.
  2. DE
    Olaf Scholz
    Social Democratic Party of Germany
    1. People come together for a few days before Christmas … to be together in contemplation but also to celebrate. To drink a glühwein, to eat a bratwurst. What a terrible act it is to injure and kill so many people there with such brutality.
    2. He apparently shared beliefs from the far-right spectrum of the AfD and believed in a large-scale conspiracy aimed at Islamizing Germany. His delusional ideas went so far that he assumed that even organizations critical of Islamism were part of the Islamist conspiracy.
    3. We have arrested the perpetrator, it is a man from Saudi Arabia... a doctor who has been in Germany since 2006.
    4. Whilst not all of the details behind the terrible act have yet been clarified, my thoughts are with the victims and their families. I would like to thank all the rescue workers for their efforts.
  3. DE
    Reiner Haseloff
    Christian Democratic Union
    1. We now need to work through this and draw long-term consequences.
  4. DE
    Nancy Faeser
    Social Democratic Party
    1. Emergency services are doing all they can to care for those affected.
    2. At this point, we can only say for sure that the perpetrator was evidently Islamophobic — we can confirm that. Everything else is a matter for further investigation and we have to wait.
  5. AT
    David Pawlik
    1. Due to the incident in Magdeburg, which is not in any way linked to Austria, it was decided that police will intensify its presence across Vienna with a focus on the city's Christmas markets from Saturday.
  6. DE
    Horst Nopens
    1. It could be he was dissatisfied with the way in which Saudi Arabian refugees were dealt with in Magdeburg.
  7. DE
    Miguel Berger
    1. We have seen that the man who committed this terrible attack was extremely active, threatening on X. The question is, 'does X really act against these things?'.
  8. DE
    Holger Münch
    Federal Criminal Police Office
    1. The man also published a huge number of posts on the internet. He also had contact with various authorities, made insults and even threats. However, he was not known to have committed acts of violence.

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sources

  1. 1.The Times of India
  2. 2.BBC
  3. 3.The New York Times
  4. 4.CTV News
  5. 5.France 24
  6. 6.Le Monde
  7. 7.Al Jazeera
  8. 8.DW News
  9. 9.CNN
  10. 10.CNA News
  11. 11.The Times
  12. 12.The Guardian

perspectives

  1. 1.Islamic Terrorism
  2. 2.German Foreign Policy
  3. 3.Crimes
  4. 4.Immigration to Europe
  5. 5.Rise of Far-Right in Europe
  6. 6.Scholz Coalition in Germany
  7. 7.Terrorist Attacks in Europe
  8. 8.Terrorism

countries

  1. 1.GermanyDE
  2. 2.Saudi ArabiaSA
  3. 3.ItalyIT
  4. 4.United StatesUS
  5. 5.HungaryHU
  6. 6.TunisiaTN
  7. 7.AustriaAT
  8. 8.PolandPL
  9. 9.Viet NamVN
  10. 10.FranceFR
  11. 11.AfghanistanAF
  12. 12.CanadaCA

organizations

  1. 1.Alternative for Germany
  2. 2.BMW
  3. 3.Bayern Munich
  4. 4.Taliban
  5. 5.Christian Democratic Union
  6. 6.Office of the Federal Prosecutor
  7. 7.Atheist Refugee Relief
  8. 8.Bundestag
  9. 9.German Football League
  10. 10.King's College London
  11. 11.Twitter/X
  12. 12.BND

persons

  1. 1.Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen
  2. 2.Olaf ScholzDE
  3. 3.Nancy FaeserDE
  4. 4.Reiner HaseloffDE
  5. 5.Thorsten Fleiss
  6. 6.Tamara Zieschang
  7. 7.Angela MerkelDE
  8. 8.Elon MuskUS
  9. 9.Heiko Rebsch
  10. 10.Peter NeumannGB
  11. 11.Alice WeidelDE
  12. 12.Peter Tschentscher

technicals

  1. 1.Islam
  2. 2.Christmas Market
  3. 3.Johanneskirche
  4. 4.Amazing Grace
  5. 5.4x4
  6. 6.Magdeburg Cathedral
  7. 7.Nazism
  8. 8.SUV
  9. 9.Glühwein
  10. 10.Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
  11. 11.Shariah
Multiple Fatalities in Vehicle Attack at German Christmas Market