Two killed and scores injured after car drives into German Christmas market

[CharlieH]

 

Scores of people were injured and at least two people, including a small child, were killed on Friday after a car ploughed into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in the eastern German town of Magdeburg, in what local officials are describing as a terror attack.

At least 68 other people were injured, including 15 who were left in a critical state, according to the city government.

 

In the attack, a black BMW drove straight into the crowd at the Christmas market, travelling at speed for 400 metres in the direction of the town hall, according to eyewitnesses cited by the broadcaster.

Videos posted on social media showed a dark-coloured car driving into the crowds at high speed. Several media outlets showed the videos in their coverage, but the authenticity of the footage has yet to be officially confirmed.

 

Emergency workers were seen treating victims on the ground at the market, surrounded by blood. Makeshift tents were erected at the site. Witnesses reported hearing cries and screams. The operator of a food stall on the market described the scenes as “reminiscent of a war”.

“This is a terrible event, particularly now in the days before Christmas,” Saxony-Anhalt’s leader Reiner Haseloff, who was on his way to Magdeburg, said.

The driver of the car was immediately arrested, and later identified as Taleb A., a 50-year-old medical doctor from Saudi Arabia. Haseloff said the man had been living in Germany since 2006. The suspect, a consultant for psychiatry and psychotherapy, was recognised as a refugee in 2016.

Footage from the scene showed the alleged perpetrator lying on the ground, his head raised, next to a badly damaged black car. A policeman metres from him is pointing a drawn weapon in his direction as passersby look on in shock.

 

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[herfiehandbag]

21 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

A policeman metres from him is pointing a drawn weapon in his direction as passersby look on in shock.

Should have slotted the bastard.

[mdr224]

Merkel is responsible for todays Germany. She was so bad that the far right is a viable option for a country that doesnt want anything to do with neo nazis

[KhunLA]

I saw that vid this early AM, when I woke up (3 AM 🙄) and amazed more people haven't died yet   

 

On RTnews, so didn't post.  Also on X if wanting to peek.

[Mr Meeseeks]

Another step towards the inevitable remigration of Islamic hordes from Western Europe. 

[quake]

Ah the religion of peace, love and harmony.

Showing there true tolerance.

R.I.P to the murdered.

 

[stevenl]

3 minutes ago, quake said:

Ah the religion of peace, love and harmony.

Showing there true tolerance.

R.I.P to the murdered.

 

Jumping to conclusions based on his name?

[Nick Carter icp]

13 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Apparently the guy was vehemently anti islam and a supporter of the AFD.

 

delete

[Bkk Brian]

8 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Jumping to conclusions based on his name?

Spreading unverified information that could well be wrong.....................& without a credible link

 

18 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Apparently the guy was vehemently anti islam and a supporter of the AFD.

A Christmas market full of people, most of them Christian no doubt. 

[quake]

Just now, stevenl said:

Jumping to conclusions based on his name?

 

Yes,  ok mate.

A guy from Saudi Arabia, its been called a terror attack,  what do you think. sherlock.

 

[OneManShow]

After several incidents still police not blocking (heavy blocks) Christmas markets to cars for such terrorists. 🤔😔

[soalbundy]

20 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Jumping to conclusions based on his name?

It has also been reported in Germany that explosives were found so he was probably going to increase the carnage.......one of the dead was a toddler, sad for the parents to have to look at the wrapped presents that will now never be excitedly unwrapped.

[quake]

Dam its gone.  

and rightly so. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Social Media]

A number of posts and replies have been removed all starting with claims by @stevenl that were not backed up with a credible link when asked and then a link provided did not back up the original claims.

 

In the news section please provide a link when asked, so it does not clutter the topic with unnecessary bickering.

 

Any alleged factual claims must be supported by a valid link to a mainstream media source.

[stevenl]

Same link as provided earlier. I presume bbc is a trusted source.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1j08p44w9kt

 

"According to some German news reports, the suspect was not known to authorities as an Islamist extremist, while social media and posts online appear to suggest he had been critical of Islam"

 

 

[Fruit Trader]

The recent Wiki article has detail about Taleb al Abdulmohsen past in the suspect paragraphs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Magdeburg_car_attack
 

[Bkk Brian]

4 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Same link as provided earlier. I presume bbc is a trusted source.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1j08p44w9kt

 

"According to some German news reports, the suspect was not known to authorities as an Islamist extremist, while social media and posts online appear to suggest he had been critical of Islam"

Thats not the only claims you made previously however. So according to social media posts, I wonder who wrote them, no link of course. By the trusted BBC and the next sentence being:

 

Investigators have not publicly outlined a potential motive but say they believe, for the moment, that the alleged perpetrator acted alone.

 

A large Christian event with a car ploughing into the crowds.

[Bkk Brian]

Seems to be a Christmas tradition:

 

Germany's Christmas markets targeted in terror attacks for more than 10 years

Germany's Christmas markets have been a target for attacks for nearly a decade.

This evening’s tragedy echoes the devastation seen in 2016 when a truck was driven through Berlin’s Christmas market by an Islamic extremist.

An HGV ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians on December 19 that year, leaving 13 dead and injuring dozens. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14215517/Germanys-Christmas-markets-targeted-terror-attacks.html

[Thingamabob]

A Saudi driver following in the tradition of the Saudi attacks on the World Trade Centre on 9/11. When I Iived and worked in Saudi in the early 80s any form of public Christian worship there was banned, and beheadings were shown live on TV. Their culture is vastly different to those of western Europe. Nothing wrong with that, just don't try to mix them together. Merkel has a lot to answer for.

[mokwit]

1 hour ago, stevenl said:

Apparently the guy was vehemently anti islam and a supporter of the AFD.

Apparently.

 

10 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Look at the wiki link provided in the post above yours under 'suspect'. Life isn't black and white.

https://larrysanger.org/2021/06/wikipedia-is-more-one-sided-than-ever/

 

[stevenl]

3 minutes ago, mokwit said:

Apparently.

 

https://larrysanger.org/2021/06/wikipedia-is-more-one-sided-than-ever/

 

Yes, when facts don't suit, just deny.

[mokwit]

2 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Yes, when facts don't suit, just deny.

that seems to be what you are doing.

[Captain Flack]

An abusive personal attack has been removed. Discuss the topic without attacking other posters.

 

Plus a post with an unsubstantiated social media link.

[mokwit]

@DrTalebJawad

Account suspended

X suspends accounts which violate the X Rules

 

Looks like someone got a hush notice. Fake story incoming?

 

why would they suspend the account? he is not going to be able to post anymore and if he had posted extremism before, surely it would have been flagged and his account suspended at the time.

[Bkk Brian]

19 minutes ago, mokwit said:

@DrTalebJawad

Account suspended

X suspends accounts which violate the X Rules

 

Looks like someone got a hush notice. Fake story incoming?

He's still on the BBC.............figures........lol

 

 

A website set up by a Saudi exile is helping other former Muslims to flee persecution in their Gulf homelands.

In some Arab countries ex-Muslims can be prosecuted for renouncing their faith, and in Saudi Arabia those convicted of apostasy may be sentenced to death.

Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen set up wearesaudis.net after he became an atheist and claimed asylum in Germany.

The site also helps ex-Muslims like "Dina" who want to escape abroad because they fear relatives will force them to marry.

You can find out more by listening to BBC Trending here

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-48881737

 

His website from the link to it on the BBC. I wonder why the BBC have not mentioned this in there reports of the incident. They are more than happy to refer to unlinked social media posts. The ever so trusted BBC.

 

[John Drake]

52 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Same link as provided earlier. I presume bbc is a trusted source.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1j08p44w9kt

 

"According to some German news reports, the suspect was not known to authorities as an Islamist extremist, while social media and posts online appear to suggest he had been critical of Islam"

 

 

 

Why would someone critical of Islam conduct a terror attack on a market celebrating a Christian event? Why not attack a mosque or muslim gathering? 

[stevenl]

1 minute ago, John Drake said:

 

Why would someone critical of Islam conduct a terror attack on a market celebrating a Christian event? Why not attack a mosque or muslim gathering? 

So you're asking me, perfectly healthy and sane, to explain why someone, possibly no sane, conducts an attack. Sorry, I can't help you with that.
But on the Wiki page provided earlier it does give an explanation about his thoughts. 

[Bkk Brian]

1 minute ago, stevenl said:

So you're asking me, perfectly healthy and sane, to explain why someone, possibly no sane, conducts an attack. Sorry, I can't help you with that.
But on the Wiki page provided earlier it does give an explanation about his thoughts. 

So you're asking me, perfectly healthy and sane, 

 

Made my day that one 

[John Drake]

4 minutes ago, stevenl said:

So you're asking me, perfectly healthy and sane, to explain why someone, possibly no sane, conducts an attack. Sorry, I can't help you with that.
But on the Wiki page provided earlier it does give an explanation about his thoughts. 

 

He's supposedly an anti-Islam activist. But his targets were Christians, not Muslims. It's not as if there is a shortage of Muslims in Germany or Europe. "Why" seems a perfectly good question to ask.

[stevenl]

Just now, John Drake said:

 

He's supposedly an anti-Islam activist. But his targets were Christians, not Muslims. It's not as if there is a shortage of Muslims in Germany or Europe. "Why" seems a perfectly good question to ask.

I understand the question. Hence my reference to the Wiki page where this is to a certain extend explained.