(Deutsche Welle) Magdeburg police said in the early hours of Sunday that the suspect in the Christmas market car attack in the city on Friday night had been issued a warrant for pretrial detention.
Magdeburg’s district court approved an appeal from the city’s public prosecutors in a late-night hearing on Saturday, police said in a statement.
“The arraignment judge ordered investigative detention on suspicion of five cases of homicide, multiple cases of attempted homicide and multiple cases of dangerous bodily harm,” police said.
“The accused was accordingly taken to a place of detention,” the short statement concluded.
The 50-year-old Saudi national, resident in Germany since 2006, was arrested soon after the attack on Friday evening. Roughly 200 people were injured in the attack, some of them severely.
