A girl has died from accidents sustained after a person drove his automotive right into a German Christmas market final month, bringing the entire demise toll from the assault to 6.
The 52-year-old died in hospital two weeks after a automotive ploughed right into a packed market in Magdeburg, prosecutors mentioned.
At the least 299 individuals have been injured within the assault on 20 December, based on the most recent figures from the inside ministry of Saxony-Anhalt.
4 different girls aged 45 to 75, and nine-year-old André Gleißner have been additionally killed.
The Federal Victims’ Commissioner Roland Weber advised German media that as many as 531 individuals might have been traumatised or suffered financial losses because of the assault.
Fifty-year-old Taleb al-Abdulmohsen was arrested on the scene, however the suspected attacker’s motives stay unclear.
He has lived in Germany since 2006 and is described as a Saudi psychiatrist who was dwelling about 50km (30 miles) south of Magdeburg, within the city of Bernburg.
Abdulmohsen was granted asylum in 2016 and ran an internet site that aimed to assist different former Muslims flee persecution of their Gulf homelands.
In lots of on-line posts Abdulmohsen voiced strongly anti-Islam views and help for far-right conspiracy narratives on the “Islamisation” of Europe.
German Inside Minister Nancy Faeser mentioned it was “clear to see” the suspect held “Islamophobic” views.
“The perpetrator doesn’t match into any earlier categorisation. Each stone shall be turned over right here,” she mentioned.
Abdulmohsen has been ordered into pre-trial detention on counts of homicide, tried homicide and harmful bodily hurt.
Police consider he acted alone, however German authorities are dealing with questions about safety and what they knew concerning the suspect accused of utilizing an entry lane for emergency automobiles to drive into the market.
They’re additionally fielding questions after reviews they have been warned final yr concerning the suspect, with police saying they’d evaluated whether or not he is perhaps a menace a yr in the past.
A supply near the Saudi authorities advised the BBC it had despatched 4 official notifications generally known as “Notes Verbal” to German authorities, warning them about what they mentioned have been “the very excessive views” held by Abdulmohsen.
Nevertheless, a counter-terrorism professional advised the BBC the Saudis might have been mounting a disinformation marketing campaign to discredit somebody who tried to assist younger Saudi girls search asylum in Germany.
