The dying toll from a automotive assault at Magdeburg’s Christmas market has risen to 6 after a girl died in hospital from her accidents.
One of the folks injured within the Christmas market automotive assault within the German metropolis of Magdeburg died on Monday, bringing the dying toll to 6.
Naumburg prosecutors mentioned the 52-year-old lady died in a hospital the place she was being handled for her accidents, in line with German information company dpa.
Five others died within the December 20 assault: 4 girls aged between 45 and 75 and a nine-year-old boy. More than 200 folks had been injured.
Furthermore, as many as 531 folks had been traumatized or suffered losses because of the accident, Federal Victims Commissioner Roland Weber instructed nationwide media.
Authorities arrested Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a physician of Saudi origin residing in Germany since 2006, on the spot, suspected of being behind the assault.
Speculation stays in regards to the suspect’s motives. Al-Abdulmohsen described himself as a former Muslim who may be very vital of Islam. Online, he has expressed help for far-right narratives towards the alleged “Islamization” of Europe in quite a few on-line posts.
Authorities mentioned the suspect’s profile was atypical of those that have carried out comparable assaults in Germany previously and cautioned towards drawing conclusions about his motives.
The authorities themselves are questioning whether or not or not they may have prevented the assault after it emerged they’d acquired intelligence that al-Abdulmohsen held excessive views and but concluded he posed no important risk.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser instructed German newspaper Bild that investigators will study “intimately” whether or not and the way authorities have investigated the suspect previously.
Al-Abdulmohsen is at the moment in custody on expenses of homicide, tried homicide and harmful bodily hurt.
