BERLIN: The demise toll from a car ramming attack on a Christmas market within the jap German metropolis of Magdeburg in December has risen to 6, prosecutors stated on Monday (Jan 6).
A 52-year-old lady has died in hospital on account of accidents she sustained within the assault, the prosecutors within the close by metropolis of Naumburg stated.
A black BMW ploughed via the standard market on Dec 20, working over and scattering our bodies amid the festive stalls.
A complete of 299 individuals had been injured within the assault, in accordance with the newest figures from the state inside ministry.
A Saudi physician of psychiatry, Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, 50, was arrested at the scene, however the suspected attacker’s motive stays unclear.
Abdulmohsen had in lots of on-line posts voiced strongly anti-Islam views, anger at German authorities and assist for far-right conspiracy narratives on the “Islamisation” of Europe.
Inside Minister Nancy Faeser stated there have been indicators the suspect was affected by a psychiatric sickness.
The assault got here two months forward of a normal election in Germany. It has reignited a heated debate about safety and immigration after a number of lethal knife assaults final yr blamed on Islamist extremists.
The far-right Various for Germany get together, which is at the moment polling in second place, held what it referred to as a memorial rally for the victims and demanded that Germany “must close the borders”.
