(DPA) The suspect in the deadly car-ramming incident at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg had appeared in seven investigative proceedings in the two years prior to the attack, dpa has learned from security sources.
According to the information, he was the complainant in five cases and the accused in two others between April 2023 and October 2024.
Shortly before Christmas, the man — identified only as Taleb A according to Germany’s privacy laws — drove a car at high speed through the Magdeburg Christmas market, killing five people and injuring almost 300. He remains in custody.
Taleb A, a Saudi national, had been working as a doctor in a psychiatric hospital in the town of Bernburg, south of Magdeburg, since 2020, treating addicts who had committed crimes.
