(Euronews) A car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg — which left six people dead shortly before Christmas — will not be investigated as a terrorist attack, the country’s Federal Prosecutor General Jens Rommel told regional channel SWR.
Rommel said the perpetrator of the attack, a Saudi-born doctor who described himself as an ex-Muslim, likely carried out the rampage “out of personal frustration” and didn’t target state institutions.
Rommel said that, unlike a fatal knife attack in the city of Solingen, the suspect was not tied to any specific organisation, such as the so-called Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the stabbing at a festival in August last year.
