Overview

• About 300 victims and helpers met in a non-public session at the Magdeburg Messehalle to share experiences and get guidance.
• Organizers focused on fostering connection and explaining rights and services, and many attendees learned for the first time what aid they can claim.
• Ministerpräsident Reiner Haseloff, federal victims’ commissioner Roland Weber, and state victim commissioners attended as agencies including the Landesverwaltungsamt, counseling services, and Weiße Ring presented support offers.
• Prosecutors have indicted Taleb A., 50, on six counts of murder and attempted murder in 338 cases, with a trial at the Landgericht Magdeburg discussed for late October.
• The December 2024 attack killed six and left hundreds injured or traumatized, and the city plans a remembrance gathering on December 20 at Johanniskirche.