Saudi Psychiatrist Sentenced to Life for Magdeburg Christmas Market Attack
A Saudi psychiatrist was sentenced to life in prison on June 26, 2026, after driving a rented BMW into visitors at the Magdeburg Christmas market days before Christmas 2024. The attack killed six people—five women aged 45 to 75 and a nine-year-old boy—and injured hundreds in a one-minute, four-second rampage. German prosecutors said the defendant, known as Taleb A. under privacy rules, held far-right sympathies and a history of anti-Islamic rhetoric. They allege he planned the assault over several weeks out of frustration with civil and criminal legal disputes. The case shocked Germany and reignited tensions over immigration just months before the February 2025 general election.
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