US EditionMurder trial of suspect in Christmas market car-ramming attack opens in Germany
- In eastern Germany on Nov 10, Taleb Jawad al-Abdulmohsen, a Saudi psychiatrist, appeared in court charged with six murders and over 300 attempted murders after December 2024 Magdeburg attack.
- Having arrived in Germany in 2006, Abdulmohsen combined migrant-rights activism with social media posts critical of Islam and far-right conspiracy theories, prosecutors say.
- Prosecutors filed charges noting he faces six counts of murder and 338 counts of attempted murder, and the trial will be held in a specially built hall for more than 140 co-plaintiffs and 400 witnesses.
- Security services now face questions after Saudi authorities warned German intelligence about Abdulmohsen's August 2024 post musing on attacking an embassy or `randomly killing Germans`.
- The attack has reshaped political debate by intensifying immigration concerns and boosting the Alternative for Germany party, which won 20 per cent and leads Saxony-Anhalt polls ahead of the 2026 state election.
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The trial of the Saudi doctor who broke into the crowd on 20 December 2024 and killed six people began on Monday and is expected to last until the spring...
The trial against Taleb A. in front of the Magdeburg Regional Court has begun. Among other things, he is accused of six murders and a hundred-fold attempted murder in the 2024 assassination attempt. The most important answers.
A 51-year-old Saudi doctor accused of driving a car into a crowd in Magdeburg last December, killing six and injuring more than 300, has begun a hunger strike that he plans to continue for three weeks, although the court has told him that the trial can continue without him.
A false news appeared on German social networks last week, announcing that this year, for security reasons, would not open the markets of Advent, the popular Christmas markets that animate the cities during the four weeks prior to Christmas. The scare was viral and had to be systematically denied by municipalities and various authorities, for the tranquility of a population that recorded, also on social networks, their frustration and sadness at…
In Magdeburg, the trial against Taleb A. began – with cruel details and a confused statement by the Christmas market assassin. Both were hard to bear.
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