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The authorities said they were struggling to understand the motives behind ramming a car into a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg, which left a 9-year-old boy among the five dead.
By Christopher F. Schuetze and Melissa Eddy
Christopher F. Schuetze reported from Bernburg, Germany, and Melissa Eddy from Berlin.
Criticize Gerguy’s government and radical Islam on social media. A lonely neighbor who seemed to live most of his life on the internet. A guy whose excessive political posts online triggered an alert for Gerguyy from Saudi Arabia.
Gerguy’s government sought on Sunday to piece together the complex profile of the man arrested on suspicion of killing five other people while driving an SUV. among the crowd at a Christmas market two days earlier, an attack that shocked the country.
The authorities have described the suspect as a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who had been living in Germany for nearly two decades. They say they are still trying to determine his motives. The Salus Clinic in Bernburg, a town about a half-hour drive from Magdeburg, said that the man worked as a psychiatrist in their closed ward, treating offenders who suffer from drug addiction.
The victims in the assault, which took place in the eastern city of Magdeburg, were a 9-year-old boy and four women aged 45 to 75, the police said in a statement on Sunday.
More than 200 people were injured, 41 of them seriously, in the attack that shattered the peace of Germany’s Christmas season, which is celebrated in many markets across the country.
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