Happened in Magdeburg.
https://news.sky.com/story/germany-car-driven-into-people-at-christmas-market-13277301
Car attack at Christmas market in Germany
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This is awful. Apparently the suspect is a Syrian with ties to Daesh. I hate how there will be an inevitable backlash of bigotry.
The video is horrific.
Would you expect anything else?
We shouldn’t have to live like this.
ffs, these things are terrifying.
Absolutely sick.
It's the kind of footage I largely avoid. So yes, watching a car at that speed ram through a crowd of people was even more horrific than I'd imagined.
Coward, hope he gets tortured.
50 year old doctor that's been in Germany for nearly 20 years, mad
Seems to be an annual thing in Germany lately.
This is too serious a thread for wisecracks but there’s such an obvious reply to this…
Sad that you have to consider the possibility of some nutjob ramming you down if you go to a Christmas market in Germany.
Rip to all the victims and thoughts with injured and all those whose christmas have been ruined by this.
Rip to all the victims and thoughts with injured and all those whose christmas have been ruined by this.
I'm shockingly surprised that they haven't put safety barriers to cordone the market off.
I was in a relatively small one in the UK last weeked which is nowhere near what the German markets are like and there was vehicle security barriers everywhere.
I was in a relatively small one in the UK last weeked which is nowhere near what the German markets are like and there was vehicle security barriers everywhere.
Apparently they had, he just managed to get round them somehow.
Been named on social media (not sure how accurate) but yeah if the reports are true sounds like a really confused person.
Whoever designed the barriers/bollards should be sacked.
He feared the islamization of Germany and he thought that comiting this would put muslims in a better light? good grief if that is true
An adult and a toddler. Grim. 
That's fecking stupid then. Fear Islamisation and attack Christmas market where all the muslims gather.
Apparently he was intoxicated, rationality goes out the window with a drink.
Wouldn't it be the opposite? Committing this attack will create more hatred for Muslims and help bring in the AfD, who are very anti-Muslim.
So a Syrian secular moderate Arab Doctor, who is also pro-AFD rams a car into a crowded street (which is a known extreme Islam M.O)....in order to further the cause of less Islamification....
What in the carnations?!
What in the carnations?!
He's a Saudi, apparently.
He was not targeting the muslims.. he seems to have targeted the German state. He is punishing Germany for its politics that apparently include islamisation.
His twitter account suggests he is a huge supporter of Israel and of the far right (AFD).
Saudi doctor who spent his life getting asylum seekers into Europe, allegedly.
He was a psychiatrist as well.... absolutely surreal.
This reminds me of the rich guy who bought hundreds of rounds and perched on top of a hotel and gunned down hundreds of people.
In that it makes very little sense.
In that it makes very little sense.
Not exactly. He is helping one specific kind of asylum seekers. (Saudi ex-muslims).
He is not at all interested in helping other asylum seekers. Much to the contrary:
It sounds appalling.
All seems to check out and is hardly a surprise. I'm pretty sure* that violence and terrorism carried out in the West is primarily white supremacist, far-right, Nazi related, and the numbers are only increasing. And it's still not taken seriously (see governments across the west cosying up to Elon Musk).
Depressing times we are living in. Its pretty horrific that a guy who could do that is a psychiatrist.
A working psych that was seriously obsessed with Alex Jones and the alt-right freakshow. What in the world.
https://bsky.app/profile/shashj.bsky.social/post/3ldsiyfuo6c2e
Can't agree with that. They never found any motive at all for that guy, while for this one there's a lot of extreme political speech in the near past.
Why do you post baseless shit like this?
Anti Islamist attacks Christmas market. Not sure I understand his motives.
Lot of misinformation doing the rounds on social media
Think it'd be best to wait until we have a few more reliable sources
RIP to the victims
Think it'd be best to wait until we have a few more reliable sources
RIP to the victims
That's not the sort of post I'd expect from you.
Victim count is now up to four fatailities and over 200 injured. 41 critically injured, 90 heavily injured, and over 80 lightly injured.