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Employer’s Review on Magdeburg Christmas Market Attack Flags Red Behavior, Finds No Way It Could Have Been Prevented

Salus Altmark Holding investigators examined 70 testimonies plus more than a million files to assess the doctor's conduct.

Overview

  • The internal special review by Salus gGmbH found no indications that employer action could have averted the December 20, 2024 vehicle attack.
  • Investigators depict the physician as a withdrawn loner with specialist deficits, unreliability, and low engagement in clinical duties.
  • Colleagues cited very long and sometimes incoherent emails about grievances and personal legal cases, with no threats or content warranting criminal complaints.
  • Employed in the Bernburg forensic psychiatric unit since March 2020, he was not assigned psychotherapies, was fired three days after the attack, and a separate absenteeism-related termination review had been planned for early 2025.
  • Six people were killed and more than 300 injured at the Magdeburg Christmas market, and no public trial date has been announced.