German Christmas market attacker shocks victims with letters A man charged with killing six people, and injuring hundreds more, last December wrote letters to several survivors asking forgiveness. Shocked recipients want to know how he got their addresses.

July 31, 2025   

(Deutsche Welle) A 50-year-old Saudi Arabian man who rammed a rented SUV into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg last December triggered shock among survivors by writing personal letters to at least five of them asking forgiveness.

The attack in the state of Saxony-Anhalt killed six individuals — one of them a six-year-old child — and injured 323 more.

The perpetrator, Taleb A., is said to have hand-written letters that personally addressed victims by name and mailed these to their homes.

What did the letters contain?

Recipients told local and regional news outlets that they felt re-traumatized by the fact that someone they view as a deranged killer would be able to gain access to their names and addresses.

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