Government calls it terrorist attack - Car drives into crowd at Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany - Confirmed 205 victims - 5 dead (4 adults+1 child), 41 severely & very severely injured

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Bespoke translation by yours truly within 30 minutes of publication. Source [A] at ntv

Government speaks of a terrorist attack​

Car drives into crowd of people at Magdeburg Christmas market​

There is a large police presence at the scene.

At a Christmas market in Magdeburg, a car races into a crowd of people. The driver apparently has been arrested. According to a government spokesman, it is a terrorist attack. There is a big presence of emergency services.

At the Christmas market in Magdeburg, there has been a terrorist attack. This was confirmed by the Saxony-Anhalt government spokesman, Matthias Schuppe, to the MDR. A driver drove into a crowd of people. He has been arrested, government circles in Saxony-Anhalt say. For now there is no information on injuries and dead. The police is present with a large unit.

Eyewitnesses reported of numerous injured and possibly also dead. Accordingly, the car has been directly steered into a crowd of people. People ran away in panic. "Currently there are comprehensive measures enacted by police at the Magdeburg Christmas market. The Christmas market in downtown is closed", the Magdeburg police writes on X.

The Christmas market is full of ambulances and medics, an eyewitness said. The Magdeburg Christmas market is on the Old Marketplace, directly next to the Magdeburg town hall near the Elbe river. There is a large shopping mall near the Christmas market. On X, videos can be seen featuring numerous emergency vehicles.

 

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All following timestamps in German local time

Friday, Dec 20​

8:52 PM: Emergency services confirm 60-80 injured
9:00 PM: The targeted area was a fairy-tale-themed area intended for families
9:13 PM: The nearby city Halle confirmed that local hospitals are being prepared to treat the injured, medical helicopters are on their way
9:18 PM: WELT reports that the culprit is a Saudi-Arabian man born in 1974 and the car is a rental
9:27 PM: The police confirmed that the driver was able to make it 400 meters [yards] (by car) through the Christmas market, impressive speed
9:31 PM: University clinic of Magdeburg confirms injured are being treated, around a dozen there in emergency medicine
9:43 PM: Confirmed numbers so far: 1 dead, 15 very severely injured, 31 moderately severely injured, 16 lightly injured
9:51 PM: Activist Martin Sellner reports that, according to insider sources, there are 31 dead, including 4 children
10:08 PM: Saxony-Anhalt minister of the interior is now speaking to the media, has now confirmed two dead, the suspect is a doctor from Bernburg
10:23 PM: The news media say that the confirmed 2 dead are 1 adult and 1 infant

Saturday, Dec 21​

11:00 AM: Confirmed 4 dead, over 200 injured
12:10 PM: Official death toll now 5
1:17 PM: Now no longer a rumor, but official: Saudi Arabia has warned Germany about the culprit and demanded his extradition. Roughly a year ago, there had been a warning to the German agencies.
2:51 PM: Magdeburg city clinic confirms that 11 severely injured are no longer in life-threatening condition. 81 victims are being treated there as of now. cf. post for more details
4:00 PM: Police press conference, relevant information: (cf. post for more)
205 victims, of which 5 are dead and 41 are severely (and very severely) injured
Chain of events has been reconstructed, the rampage started at 7:02 PM and ended at 7:05 PM with an arrest on the scene
The dead are 4 adults and 1 kid (9 y.o.)

Sunday, Dec 22​

3:11 PM: Prosecution office confirms that the other 4 dead are ages 45, 52, 67, and 75.
5:12 PM: Excellent writeup collating a lot of evidence and opinions pointing at the radical Islam background of the culprit, cf. post

Apparently the assault car was a BMW with a Munich license plate, so that's a really big distance from Magdeburg

Live news ticker (German, public broadcasting): https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sach...r-anschlag-weihnachtsmarkt-magdeburg-100.html

Live broadcasting:
ntv (German) https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/lives...rgruende-rund-um-die-Uhr--article9511936.html
Sky News https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1870190513460023668 (no longer covering Magdeburg)

Sketch of the culprit's path based on police information, Christmas market area indicated in yellow, sketch by yours truly:


Video shared on Twitter:

Videos of the suspect being arrested:

Allegedly immediate aftermath:

 

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t-online speaks of two cars driving through the crowd, and of 11 dead and 60 injured.

 

[Maori Kiwifruit Growers]

How could the Christians and Jews do something like this? If only there were members of the religion of peace to prevent this

 

[Null]

they usually put down those lego blocks of peace now, did they not think to? Look at how crowded that christmas market is

 

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they usually put down those lego blocks of peace now, did they not think to? Look at how crowded that christmas market is

Been at the Christmas market in Frankfurt a few days ago and can confirm big concrete Lego blocks of peace. But apparently they didn't do that in Magdeburg.

 

[Burd Turglar]

Darrel Brooks 2, German boogaloo.

 

[Null]

Been at the Christmas market in Frankfurt a few days ago and can confirm big concrete Lego blocks of peace. But apparently they didn't do that in Magdeburg.

europe is facing a labor crisis, germany needs more syrian refugees to build more concrete lego blocks of peace so every christmas market can be safe

 

[troonshine]

'Muslim plows trough crowd at Christmas market'
'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Country Where This Regularly Happens

 

[WelperHelper99]

Darrel Brooks 2, German boogaloo.

Didn't Darrel do his SUV of Peace around Christmas time too?

 

[Ordovický]

another peacefull muslim refugee

 

[h3catoncheries]

This has gone too far, hopefully now the German government will finally take serious actions against Nazi online hate speech.

 

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At Xitter they speak of a Syrian suspect.
Later, media said the suspect is a 50 year old man from Saudi-Arabia who has been a permanent resident in Germany since 2006. Check information post (1st reply in this thread)

Warning: Sad

 

[Rakovnik]

At a Christmas market in Magdeburg, a car races into a crowd of people.

It's time for common sense car control, no inbred refugee should be allowed to wield something so destructive

 

[Crex Crex]

another peacefull muslim refugee

Don't worry bro it totally is not Islam, he just had "psychological problems" like every other terrorist in the last few years.

 

[Lidl Drip]

I legit don't feel safe going to the Christmas markets anymore. No doubt this was another muslim.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

I do hope this doesn't ruin Christmas for any of Mummy Merkel's New Germans. Imagine being such bigoted white supremacists as to hold a market in the middle of the mohammedans favourite autobahn.

 

[Toothp!ck]

they usually put down those lego blocks of peace now, did they not think to? Look at how crowded that christmas market is

Someone on Twitter said they broke through the barricades but provided no proof

 

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How could anyone have ever predicted something like this would happen to a country that continues to import thousands of immigrants who don't hold the same religion, beliefs, or societal standards as the native population while vocally advocating for death to them too? Must have been a lone wolf.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

Tragic that this happened. Notice the passive phrasing of the headline though. It's meant to make it seem like the car did it by itself