Overview

• The lightweight hall on state land includes a 65-by-30-meter courtroom with seating for about 450 co-plaintiffs plus roughly 200 spectators and media.
• Security features include separate access routes for all groups and a glass enclosure for the defendant during hearing days.
• Saxony-Anhalt is renting the temporary facility for the trial, with officials projecting costs in the mid single-digit millions and reported outlays so far of about €1.7 million plus monthly rent and a teardown fee.
• An indictment filed in August charges Taleb A. with six murders, 338 attempted murders and dangerous bodily harm in the December 20, 2024 ramming that harmed 344 people.
• The Magdeburg court has referred the case to the federal prosecutor as a potential state-security matter, making a tentative October 22 start dependent on whether the case is taken over and moved to the Naumburg higher regional court.