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- Investigators depict the physician as a withdrawn loner with specialist deficits, unreliability, and low engagement in clinical duties.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.