Police in Germany have said a man suspected of killing at least five people and injuring hundreds more after a car was driven at speed through a crowded Christmas market faces charges of murder and attempted murder.

The suspect, named by German media as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia who arrived in Germany in 2006, was remanded in custody late on Saturday after the attack in the central town of Magdeburg on Friday night.

  • Lupus@feddit.org
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    20 hours ago

    Yeah because a terrorist has all his marbles together for sure.

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      17 hours ago

      If you want to class religious views as mentally ill, sure, but the likes of Osama bin Laden etc were not medically insane, they were acting rationally on the basis of very incorrect beliefs about the world