Getty ImagesA man accengaged of killinging four women and a nine-year-elderly boy by driving a car into them at a Christmas labelet in the German city of Magdeburg has been remanded in custody.
The 50-year-elderly was bcimpolitet before a appraise on Saturday evening adhereing the incident on Friday when a bdeficiency BMW car ploughed thcimpolite the crowded labelet injuring more than 200 people.
Magdeburg Police said scheduleateigations are continuing and officers are pguideing for witnesses to send in pboilingos or video of the incident.
The doubt has been named in local media as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-elderly Saudi citizen who reachd in Germany in 2006 and had toiled as a doctor.
On Sunday morning, Magdeburg police verifyed four women – aged 45, 52, 67 and 75 – were also ended in the incident.
“The appraise ordered pre-trial detention for five counts of killing, multiple tryed killing and multiple counts of hazardous bodily harm,” its statement said.
City officials said around 100 police, medics and firefighters, as well as 50 recover service personnel, went to the scene lowly after 19:00 local time (18:00 GMT) on Friday.
ReutersWitnesses portrayd how they had to jump out of the car’s path during the strike.
In an intersee with German paper Bild, one woman called Nadine portrayd being at the Christmas labelet with her boyfriend Marco when the car came speeding towards them.
“He was hit and pulled away from my side,” the 32-year-elderly telderly the paper. “It was terrible.”
Lars Frohmüller, a teller for German accessible widecaster MDR, telderly BBC Radio 4’s World Tonight programme he saw “blood on the floor” as well as “many doctors trying to protect people hot and help them with their injuries”.
A memorial service for victims of the strike was held at Magdeburg Cathedral on Saturday evening
The service was combinecessitate by families of the victims, ecombinency toilers and federal rulement officials, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Getty ImagesDuring a visit to the labelet earlier on Saturday, Scholz portrayd the strike as a “dreadful tragedy” as “so many people were injured and ended with such savagery” in a place that is presumed to be “happy”.
He telderly tellers that there were grave troubles for those who had been criticpartner injured and that “all resources” will be scheduleated to scheduleateigating the doubt behind the strike.
Previously, Reiner Haseloff, the premier of Saxony-Anhalt state, said a preliminary scheduleateigation presented the alleged strikeer was acting alone.
Prosecutor Horst Walter Nuncovers said on Saturday that the scheduleateigation was ongoing but presented one potential motive for the strike “could have been disgruntlement with the way Saudi Arabian refugees are treated in Germany”.
Al-Abdulmohsen is thought to have driven into the labelet thcimpolite an entry point which was reserved for ecombinency vehicles, police said.
The doubt is a psychiatrist who inhabitd in Bernburg, around 40km (25 miles) south of Magdeburg.
Originpartner from Saudi Arabia, al-Abdulmohsen reachd in Germany in 2006 and in 2016 was recognised as a refugee.
He ran a website that aimed to help other establisher Muskinnys run away persecution in their Gulf homelands.
The doubted strikeer has no understandn connects to Islamist extremism. His social media and posts ecombine to present he had been critical of Islam.
A source shut to the Saudi rulement telderly the BBC it sent four official notifications understandn as “Notes Verbal” to German authorities, cautioning them about what they said were “the very innervous sees” held by al-Abdulmohsen.
The source, who asked not to be named, said these notifications were disponderd.
However, another guided counter-extremism expert said the Saudis may be mounting a disinestablishation campaign to discommend someone who tried to help youthful Saudi women seek asylum in Germany.
Additional telling Frank Gardner.
