A Saudi doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment
for driving a rented BMW into crowds at a Christmas market in the eastern
German city of Magdeburg, killing six people and injuring hundreds in one of
the country's deadliest recent attacks.
The sentence was handed down on Friday, June 26, 2026,
after the court found the defendant, identified as Taleb A. under German
privacy laws, guilty of murder and the attempted murder of hundreds of others.
Taleb A., a psychiatrist originally from Saudi Arabia,
was described by investigators as having a history of anti-Islamic views and
far-right sympathies. Prosecutors said the attack lasted just one minute and
four seconds but had been carefully planned over several weeks.
The victims included five women aged between 45 and
75, as well as a nine-year-old boy. Hundreds of other people were injured
during the incident, which occurred just days before Christmas in 2024.
According to prosecutors, the attack was motivated by
the defendant's dissatisfaction over the outcome of a civil legal dispute and
frustration with the lack of success in several criminal complaints he had
filed.
The deadly attack sent shockwaves across Germany and
reignited heated debates over immigration and public security in the lead-up to
the country's general election in February 2025.
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