Summary

A car ploughed into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least two people, including a child, and injuring 68 others, 15 critically, in what authorities are treating as a terror attack.

The suspect, identified as Taleb A., a Saudi Arabian psychiatrist living in Germany since 2006, was arrested at the scene. He allegedly drove a rented BMW through the crowded market, targeting families and children.

The attack raised concerns about security at Christmas markets despite preventive measures like bollards. German and French leaders expressed shock and condolences.

This incident follows heightened vigilance since a 2016 truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 13 people.

  • @FourPacketsOfPeanuts
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    -261 month ago

    You’re right, Taleb A. from Saudi Arabia sounds like your regular run of the mill European cultural christian…

    • @mhague
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      321 month ago

      I just think it’s neat that when they’re brown they’re consistently matched with their religion, but only certain people will associate white nationalists and Nazis with Christianity.

      • @FourPacketsOfPeanuts
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        1 month ago

        The West absolutely has a fascist white Christian terrorist problem, that doesn’t change anything I said

        • @[email protected]
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          31 month ago

          The same reporters that are happy to label this guy as Muslim absolutely do not call crusaders what they are.

      • @[email protected]
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        -201 month ago

        Because Nazis don’t do this shit in the name of religion, that’s where the difference lies

          • @[email protected]
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            21 month ago

            As current information indicates radical hate of all religions and insane claims of German police furthering the “islamization” of Germany.

            Going by the stuff the suspect wrote on his twitter it seems stochastic terrorism from the far right worked once again. Just that this time the victims aren’t brown, queer or jewish, but “normal” (by the far rights idea) Germans.