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The market reopened with memorials and reinforced security, balancing resilience and trauma after six deaths and over 300 injuries in last year's vehicle attack.
- On the one-year anniversary of the December 20, 2024 attack, the Magdeburg Christmas market reopened with memorial services and pavement stones set with candles and flowers in Old Market Square, featuring about 140 stands before closing Saturday for ceremonies.
- On December 20, 2024, a hire vehicle drove into crowds, killing six; the attacker, now 51-year-old, admitted driving and faces six murder and 338 attempted murder charges as his trial proceeds in Magdeburg judiciary.
- Police officers and security guards are grouped around market entrances, with large red and green concrete blocks, sand sacks and steel security barriers lining access points while visitors are occasionally stopped and questioned.
- Stieger said opinions were divided: some opposed reopening, while Stallholder Mirko Stage noted `All of us went into this Christmas market with a funny feeling because we weren't sure how it would be to suddenly reopen here after the events of last year`.
- Earlier this month, on December 12, authorities detained a man in Magdeburg for suspected attack plans, while national organisers said visitor numbers are down this year but rising, and Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Saxony-Anhalt State Premier Reiner Haseloff will attend anniversary events including a cross-faith initiative.
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Exactly a year ago, a 50-year-old driver drove through the crowds at the Magdeburg Christmas Market. Six people died, more than 300 were injured. Today, they are reminded of them.One year after the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas Market, the city is reminded of the six dead and hundreds injured. At the beginning of the morning, during a divine service in the Magdeburg St. John's Church, an emergency pastor, a doctor and an affected person spok…
A year after the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market, the city is still in mourning. The cultural scene also wants to contribute to the commemoration of the victims – with a memorial and a play. By S. Meyer.
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One year after the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas Market, the city commemorates six dead and more than 300 injured with divine services, a memorial hour and a chain of lights.
One year after the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas Market, the victim is remembered today.
In order to process the attack in Magdeburg, survivors and people close to them receive help from the Land of Saxony-Anhalt. It is about drugs, psychotherapy and financial support.
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