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2024-12-20 Europe

~~Several 20~~ 60-80 Injured, ~~1 11~~ 2 Dead In Christmas Market ‘Terror Attack' In Germany

Note that Elmerert Hupens2660’s Telegraph source is liveblogging, so check this link and the others for updates.

[Telegraph] A car ploughed into a crowd at a German Christmas market on Friday, injuring between 60 and 80 people and killing one in a suspected terror attack.

The car crashed through barriers protecting the market in Magdeburg and drove straight into shoppers, eyewitnesses reported.

Video purportedly taken by a nearby camera showed a car mowing down dozens of pedestrians as it sped through a narrow alleyway with stalls on either side.

The driver has been arrested, Germany’s DPA news agency reported, and police closed the market as they searched for explosives.

More than 20 people appeared to have been injured in the attack, the paper reported.

The attack began at 7.04pm local time and the car involved was a dark-coloured BMW, according to reports.

Magdeburg, west of Berlin, is the provincial capital of Saxony-Anholt and home to 240,000 people.

Comments elsewhere around the Burg:

#3 Panic caused by a 10,000-strong march chanting 'Allahu Akbar' through a Christmas market
Posted by: Skidmark

#4 German police make arrest after car plows into crowd at German Christmas market
Posted by: Grom the Reflective

#11 NY Post: Several injured after car plows into crowd at German Christmas market in suspected terrorist attack
Posted by: Frank G

#14 Driver has been arrested. Targeted the "fairy tale area" with lots of children.
Let's see how long it will take until we are told that the attacker wasn't Amish.
Posted by: European Conservative

#15 Car ramming kills 11, wounds over 60 at German Christmas market
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-12-20 15:30|| 2024-12-20 15:30|| Front Page || Comments Top
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#16 #14 Germany's Welt newspaper published that the driver was a man from Saudi Arabia and is approximately 50 years old
Posted by Grom the Reflective

Update at 3:35 pm ET from Grom’s Jerusalem Post link:

At least 11 people were killed and 60-80 wounded after a car rammed into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany on Friday night, Bild reported.

The driver has since been arrested, according to multiple German media reports. Police said the driver drove "at least 400 meters across the Christmas market" through the crowds.

Emergency services have set up tents to care for the wounded while 10-20 have reportedly arrived at Magdeburg University Hospital for emergency treatment.

Update from the Telegraph at 6:51 pm ET:

A car ploughed into a crowd at a German Christmas market on Friday, killing at least two people, including a small child, and leaving almost 70 wounded in a lone wolf terror attack.

The dark-coloured BMW crashed through barriers protecting the market in Magdeburg and drove straight into shoppers at 7.04pm local time.

Video purportedly taken by a nearby camera showed a car mowing down pedestrians as it sped through a narrow alleyway with stalls on either side.

Police arrested the 50-year-old suspect who is a doctor from Saudi Arabia and has lived in Germany since 2006, the premier of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, said.

The suspect had been practicing medicine in Bernburg, about 23 miles (36 kilometres) south of Magdeburg, according to officials

11:51pm No bombs found
The suspect’s car did not contain explosive devices, police have confirmed.

Investigators have since checked the car and declared it safe.

11:47pm Police consider suspect’s mental state, political views
Police said they were still unsure of the motivation for the attack.

Security experts believe the suspect may suffer from psychological issues, possibly combined with political radicalisation.

However, he is not known to have a prior record of Islamic extremism.

9:31pm According to the state premier, the perpetrator used a rental car registered to Munich.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-12-20 14:25|| || Front Page|| [11167 views ] Top
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#1 Set as today’s headline. Thank you all for being on top of this for us.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-12-20 15:31|| 2024-12-20 15:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Germany's Welt newspaper published that the driver was a man from Saudi Arabia and is approximately 50 years old

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-12-20 15:33|| 2024-12-20 15:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Peace Partners

Posted by mossomo 2024-12-20 15:44|| 2024-12-20 15:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Wretchard: More than a dozen dead. Half a hundred or more injured. Suspect reported to be a doctor from Saudi Arabia.

Posted by 3dc 2024-12-20 17:01|| 2024-12-20 17:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Latest sources say 2 dead and more than 60 injured, but numbers will rise.

Unfortunately barriers aren't 100% safe. I personally checked those in Munich Marienplatz and I fear they would not stop a heavy truck.

Authorities confirm it's a Saudi doctor working in a hospital, with no (yet?) known Islamist background.

Posted by European Conservative 2024-12-20 17:09|| 2024-12-20 17:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Police consider suspect’s mental state, political views

He's a Muslim. So his mental state and political views are known. Even if the MSM won't admit it.

Religion of peace my ass.

Posted by Rambler 2024-12-20 19:37|| 2024-12-20 19:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Exercise the Vlad the Impaler option, impale 1000 muslims per dead, 500 per injured. Eventually, you run out cause their too stupid to get the message.

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-12-20 19:48|| 2024-12-20 19:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Time to dust off The Oldies

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-12-20 20:09|| 2024-12-20 20:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Doctor, 50, who killed at least two in horrific Christmas market car attack is 'an ex-Muslim who fled Saudi Arabia in 2006 before ranting against German government for Islamising Europe'

Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-20 21:27|| 2024-12-20 21:27|| Front Page Top

#10 So he rants against islamization and just attacks a Christmas market...sure. Gaslighting already?

Posted by Ebbeting Jones8196 2024-12-20 21:58|| 2024-12-20 21:58|| Front Page Top

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