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Life Sentence for Magdeburg Christmas Market Attacker

A court in Magdeburg has sentenced the man who drove a car into a Christmas market crowd in 2024 to life imprisonment. The 51-year-old killed six people and injured more than 300.

Life Sentence for Magdeburg Christmas Market Attacker
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The 51-year-old perpetrator drove a rented vehicle through a security barrier onto the Magdeburg Christmas market in December 2024, plowing into a crowd. The attack killed six people and injured more than 300.

The court found the man guilty of murder and established the particular gravity of his guilt, which precludes early release. The convicted man, a psychiatrist originally from Saudi Arabia,

Source: www.dw.com