Video shows German police detaining a suspect at gunpoint after a car plowed into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing two and injuring 60. Authorities believe the incident was an intentional attack.
Furious hard-right protesters took to the streets of Germany last night to demand mass deportations after a Saudi doctor allegedly killed five people during a devastating attack on a Christmas market.
Some of the demonstrators reportedly wore masked and were aggressive, resulting in minor scuffles with police. Police arrested an 'unstable' 50-year-old Saudi doctor identified as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen after he allegedly rammed his SUV into a packed market in the town of MagdeburgAl-Abdulmohsen was pictured in a white t-shirt as he arrived at court last night, where he was remanded on charges of murder, attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS Pictured: Boy, nine, killed in German Christmas market attack along with four adults At last night's protest in Magdeburg, a known neo-Nazi called Thorsten Heise reportedly stirred up the crowd by yelling: 'Deport, deport, deport' and 'Resistance'. The masked protestors who waved anti-immigration posters and shouted chants of 'migration kills' were escorted by hundreds of police in full riot gear as they marched through the city.
Public workers clean the Christmas Market, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, in Magdeburg, Germany, on Sunday morning, December 22, 2024Read MoreBREAKING NEWS Child aged just NINE is confirmed as one of five killed in Christmas market carnage: Major updates Al-Abdulmohsen had voiced support for Elon Musk, Tommy Robinson and Alternative for Germany, the hard-right anti-immigration party, trying to build connections to hard-right organisations in Germany and the UK.
But as German media dug into al-Abdulmohsen's past, and investigators gave away little, criticism has rained down from the far-right and far-left parties already bitterly opposed to the Scholz government. In a post in December last year, he wrote: 'Germany is the only country – other than Saudi Arabia – that chases female Saudi asylum seekers all over the world to destroy their lives.
Al-Abdulmohsen had bypassed security bollards and used an emergency corridor – which should have been blocked for anything other than ambulances and police vehicles – to enter the market. He then pointed his vehicle directly at the crowd and ploughed forward. As shoppers fled in panic, the driver turned another corner and drove out of the market.
Clothes and blankets lie on chairs at the Christmas market, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, in Magdeburg, Germany, Sunday, December 22, 2024 The Chancellor laid a white rose at a church before heading towards his car, but he quickened his step after finding himself being heckled by the disapproving crowd when he visited to pay his respects.
Read More Festive fairs targeted in terror attacks for more than 10 years Surgeons have worked around the clock, with one health worker telling local media of 'blood on the floor everywhere, people screaming, lots of painkillers being administered'. At the same time, he has criticised the entry of other Muslim migrants and war refugees to Germany and backed conspiracy theories about the planned 'Islamisation' of Europe.
One day before the attack, al-Abdulmohsen, was due to appear before the Tiergarten district court accused of calling the fire department at the Berlin police station on February 23 this year without there being an emergency. He didn't show up to court.
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