A automobile crashing right into a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, has reignited safety considerations and serves as a stark reminder of earlier assaults on Christmas markets throughout Europe, together with assaults in Berlin, Strasbourg and in different cities lately.
A automobile plowed right into a crowded open-air Christmas market within the jap German metropolis of Magdeburg on Friday, killing not less than 5 folks and injuring greater than 200.
Similar assaults have focused Christmas markets in different cities, together with the 2018 assault in Strasbourg, France, the place 5 folks had been killed and lots of others injured, in addition to incidents in Nantes, France, and different cities in Germany .
Ensuring the protection of Christmas markets has been a heightened concern since 2016, when an Islamic extremist attacked a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 13 folks and injuring dozens extra.
Christmas markets are standard in Germany and the nation hosts round 2,500-3,000 Christmas markets every year, lasting round a month from late November till simply after Christmas.
Timeline of main assaults on Christmas markets in Europe:
Germany has just lately seen a collection of alleged Islamic knife assaults.
In August, three folks had been killed and eight others injured throughout a collection of stabbings at a road pageant within the western metropolis of Solingen.
Authorities arrested a Syrian suspect in reference to the assault, which was later claimed by IS.
In June, a police officer misplaced his life in a knife assault in Mannheim, during which an Afghan nationwide was the primary suspect.
