Overview

• A police officer told the Saxony-Anhalt inquiry that the market organizer was charged with implementing vehicle access safeguards.
• Officers could only close access roads if concrete indications of danger emerged, according to the testimony.
• The witness said that full protection against a vehicle ramming would have required fencing the entire market area and she failed to notice two large barrier gaps.
• Lawmakers probed a police unit leader for coordinating the December 20 response remotely rather than on site.
• The December attack killed six people and injured more than 300, prompting renewed scrutiny of interagency coordination and accountability.