US EditionGermany: 5 arrested over suspected Christmas market attack
Five men were arrested for plotting an Islamist-motivated vehicle attack targeting a Christmas market in Bavaria, authorities said, with the plan involving mass casualties.
- On Dec 13, German authorities arrested five men, including an Egyptian, three Moroccans and a Syrian, suspected in a Christmas market vehicle-ramming plot; they were detained Dec 12 and remain in custody.
- Investigators say the plot had an Islamist motive after prosecutors described an Egyptian, aged 56, calling in a mosque for an attack in Dingolfing-Landau district with unclear timing and market target.
- Heightened alert followed a 2024 car-ramming in Magdeburg, where three Moroccans aged 30, 28 and 22 allegedly agreed to act, encouraged by a Syrian, 37; Magdeburg's 2025 market opened shortly after approval.
- The arrests intensified debate over market security as some cities have cancelled winter traditions, but visitors still crowded the Christmas market on the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin on December 13, 2025.
- Past deadly attacks and recent trials frame the current arrests, including the 2016 Berlin truck attack that killed 12 and a Saudi doctor on trial for the 2024 Magdeburg rampage.
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A group of men were arrested following an investigation linking them to the organization of a vehicle attack against the public event to which thousands of people are present.
Apparently five men were planning to hit civilians with a vehicle.
Three Moroccans, an Egyptian and a Syrian, who were detained, were suspected of planning an Islamist attack on a baby car in a Bavarian market.
Germany says foils Islamist plot to attack Christmas market
BERLIN — German authorities said Saturday they had arrested five men on suspicion of involvement in an Islamist plot to plough a vehicle into people at a Christmas market. An Egyptian, three Moroccans and a Syrian were detained on Friday over the plan to carry out the attack in southern Bavaria state, police and prosecutors said in a statement. The Egyptian, aged 56, allegedly called in a mosque for an attack to be carried out on a market in the…
Five men have been arrested in Germany, suspected of planning a terrorist attack against a Christmas market in the southern parts of the country.
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