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A man accused of murdering four women and a nine-year-old boy by driving a car into them at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has been remanded in custody. The 50-year-old was brought before a judge on Saturday evening following the incident on Friday when a black BMW car ploughed through the crowded market injuring more than 200 people.
Magdeburg Police said investigations are continuing and officers are appealing for witnesses to send in photos or video of the incident. The suspect has been named in local media as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old Saudi citizen who arrived in Germany in 2006 and had worked as a doctor.
On Sunday morning, Magdeburg police confirmed four women – aged 45, 52, 67 and 75 – were also killed in the incident. “The judge ordered pre-trial detention for five counts of murder, multiple attempted murder and multiple counts of dangerous bodily harm,” its statement said.
Witnesses described how they had to jump out of the car’s path during the attack. In an interview with German paper Bild, one woman called Nadine described being at the Christmas market with her boyfriend Marco when the car came speeding towards them.
During a visit to the market earlier on Saturday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described the attack as a “dreadful tragedy” as “so many people were injured and killed with such brutality” in a place that is supposed to be “joyful”. He told reporters that there were serious concerns for those who had been critically injured and that “all resources” will be allocated to investigating the suspect behind the attack.
The investigation is ongoing, but police have said that one potential motive for the attack “could have been disgruntlement with the way Saudi Arabian refugees are treated in Germany”.
The suspect, al-Abdulmohsen, is thought to have driven into the market through an entry point which was reserved for emergency vehicles, police said. The suspect is a psychiatrist who lived in Bernburg, around 40km (25 miles) south of Magdeburg.
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