A comprehensive investigation and the rise in casualties… Updates on the car-ramming attack in Magdeburg

“A terrible and crazy act,” is how German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described the bloody attack on the Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg.
The attack left at least five people dead and about 200 wounded, and Schulz said while inspecting the crime scene on Saturday: “There is no place more peaceful and joyful than the Christmas market… What a terrible act.”

Car ramming attack in Magdeburg

Schulz announced a comprehensive investigation into the crime, stressing that it is now important to conduct investigations with the utmost precision.
“Nothing should be left unexamined, and that is what will happen,” he said, stressing the need to carefully understand the perpetrator, his actions and motives and respond to them with criminal consequences.
Schulz stressed that it is important for him in such a terrible event “to stay together as a country, to come together, and to support each other, so that hatred does not threaten our coexistence.”

Run over accidents in Germany

He continued that those who sow hatred should not be allowed to escape punishment, stressing the need to confront the perpetrators with the fullest force of the law.
The head of the government of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Rainer Hasloff, announced that the death toll had risen to five, and said today at the crime site: “We have to mourn the lives of five people and more than 200 wounded, many of whom have serious and very serious injuries.”

Haslov said that the death toll from the accident had risen more horribly than initially thought since yesterday, adding with signs of trembling that the site of the attack “will remain forever linked to the history of the city of Magdeburg.”

Saudi Arabia condemns the hit-and-run accident

Pointing out that this site will find its way into the city’s history as a memorial site, Hasloff spoke of a new dimension of violence, saying: “None of us can imagine.”
Yesterday, police arrested the suspect, a doctor residing in the city of Bernburg. The man is known to be an activist critical of Islam. He is a 50-year-old doctor and has lived in Germany since 2006.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s condemnation of the hit-and-run accident, which occurred in a market in the city of Magdeburg, expressing its solidarity with the German people and the families of the victims.
The Kingdom affirmed its position in rejecting violence, expressing its sympathy and sincere condolences to the families of the deceased and to the government and people of the Federal Republic of Germany, while wishing those injured a speedy recovery.