Car races in the crowd: moment of terror on Magdeburg Christmas market!

Car races in the crowd: moment of terror on Magdeburg Christmas market!

In a shocking incident, a driver raced into a group of people at the Christmas market in Magdeburg on Friday evening. There are reports on numerous injuries and possibly even dead. The police immediately arrested the driver, as the German Press Agency (dpa) learned from government sources in Saxony-Anhalt. The exact background of the incident is currently unclear, but a spokesman for the city confirmed that according to initial assessments, it could be classified as a stop.

eyewitnesses reported a chaotic scenario when numerous ambulances and paramedics took care of the injured people who were provided with a large Christmas pyramid. Over 20 injuries were initially reported, but according to reports from the Magdeburg Volksstimme, the situation seems to be considerably more serious, with the possibility of dozens of dead. The incident occurred on the old market, directly at the Magdeburg town hall near the Elbe, in the immediate vicinity of a large shopping center. On social media such as X, videos that show numerous emergency vehicles that rush to the scene of the accident, which underlines the drama of the situation, how Augsburger-allgemeine.de reported.

past in memory

The incident arouses memories of the terrible events of December 19, 2016 when an Islamist terrorist with a stolen truck raced to the Christmas market at Berlin's Breitscheidplatz and killed twelve people while more than 70 were injured. This dark return of violence on Christmas markets not only worries the citizens, but also the security forces who strive to keep the situation under control. Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) is now on the way to Magdeburg to get an idea of ​​the situation after the hazard reports have moved across the city.