German prosecutors have pressed murder charges against the man who drove a car into a Christmas Market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg in December.
Taleb A.* is accused of six counts of murder and 338 counts of attempted murder, among other charges. Prosecutors said in their statement they would seek the German legal equivalent of a first-degree murder conviction.
Five women aged 45 to 75 and one nine-year-old boy were killed in the attack on December 20, 2024, which left over 300 others injured.
The suspect, a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian doctor who was arrested at the scene, was described by German authorities as an anti-Islam activist.
Mass Murder is now anti-Islamist, who knew?
