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Scores of people were injured and at least two people, including a small child, were killed on Friday after a car ploughed into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in the eastern German town of Magdeburg. At least 68 other people were injured, including 15 who were left in a critical state, according to the city government.
The driver of the car was immediately arrested, and later identified as Taleb A., a 50-year-old medical doctor from Saudi Arabia. Saxony-Anhalt's leader Reiner Haseloff said the man had been living in Germany since 2006. The suspect, a consultant for psychiatry and psychotherapy, was recognised as a refugee in 2016.
"The reports from Magdeburg raise the worst fears," the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said on social media platform X. He was due to travel to Magdeburg on Saturday along with the interior minister, Nancy Faeser, according to their spokespeople. French President Emmanuel Macron said he was "profoundly shocked" by the attack, adding that he "shares the pain of the German people".
