Last year, the Office for Migration and Refugees was alerted to a man accused of attacking Christmas markets. They moved him to the responsible office.
Germany’s migration and refugee agency said on Sunday it had received a tip last year about a man German authorities accused of carrying out an attack on Christmas markets in the city of Magdeburg last year that killed five people and injured more than 200. TASR informs about it according to the report of the DPA agency. The authority wrote on the X social network that it received the warning through social networks in late summer 2023.
“We took this, as well as all the other numerous indications, seriously,” the migration office said. Given that the migration office is not an investigative body, the informant was referred directly to the competent authorities, the office added, writes DPA. So-called screenshots are circulating on the Internet (screenshots) which, according to the DPA, appear to show messages from a person who warned the migration office about the alleged perpetrator German press agency.
German authorities on Sunday filed charges against the suspect, a 50-year-old Saudi national whose identity is protected by German privacy laws. He is accused of five murders, several attempted murders and several serious injuries. The perpetrator of Friday’s attack in Magdeburg got to the Christmas markets there with his vehicle through a corridor intended for emergency services, which was not specially protected. His drive to arrest lasted about three minutes, said the director of the police inspectorate in Magdeburg, Tom-Oliver Langhans. The victims of the attack were four women aged 45, 52, 67 and 75 and a nine-year-old boy, Sky News writes. More than 40 people are seriously injured.
