Overview
- Seven police investigators are scheduled to testify Thursday about the probe into defendant Taleb A. and related investigative steps.
- A day earlier, the judge played video of the defendant’s post‑attack interrogation after witnesses failed to appear, with police describing parts of his statements as incoherent and unrelated to the incident.
- Magdeburg announced a midday briefing on plans for a first‑anniversary commemoration and on recognition for emergency and rescue personnel.
- The Christmas market opened Thursday after the city, the state administrative office and police agreed last week to strengthen security measures, with final clearance granted on Tuesday.
- Earlier testimony detailed the defendant’s work from March 2020 to December 2024 as a psychiatrist at the Bernburg forensic clinic, where colleagues depicted him as insecure and unreliable.