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Naumburg Prosecutors Indict Taleb A. Over Magdeburg Christmas Market Killings

A psychiatric evaluation has been commissioned to assess criminal responsibility.

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Overview

  • Prosecutors charge him with six counts of murder, attempted murder of 338 people, dangerous bodily harm and dangerous interference with road traffic.
  • The attack killed five women aged 45 to 75 and a nine-year-old boy and harmed 344 people, lasting 1 minute 4 seconds at up to 48 km/h in a 340-horsepower rental car.
  • Investigators say the act was planned over weeks, carried out alone, not under the influence of alcohol, and driven by frustration over a civil dispute and failed complaints.
  • He remains in pretrial detention as the ordered psychiatric assessment proceeds.
  • The Magdeburg regional court will decide on admitting the case, with 410 witnesses and five experts named, and an interim courtroom expected to be ready in September.