(DPA) There were mounting questions on Sunday about whether the deadly attack on a German Christmas market could have been prevented after it emerged that various authorities across the country had received warnings and tip-offs about the perpetrator.
Five people were killed, including a child, and some 200 others wounded, when a man sped through the crowded Christmas market in the central city of Magdeburg on Friday evening.
The perpetrator, a 50-year-old doctor originally from Saudi Arabia, who has lived in Germany for nearly two decades and had permanent residency, is in pre-trial detention on counts of murder, attempted murder and inflicting grievous bodily harm.
