What we know about the Magdeburg Christmas market attack suspect

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The suspect has been ordered into pre-trial detention on counts of murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm

People look at flowers and candles left as a tribute near the ‘Alter Markt’ Christmas market identified him from a BBC documentary he had been interviewed for in 2019, as a doctor from Saudi Arabia who was interviewed by the broadcaster in 2019 as part of several media interviews reporting on his activist work helping Saudi Arabians who had turned their back on Islam to flee to Europe.

His account on social media platform X, verified by the news agency Reuters, indicated support for the far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany . The suspect lived on a quiet street near the centre of Bernburg, a town of 30,000, south of Magdeburg, in a three-storey apartment block. He also accused German authorities of failing to do enough to combat what he referred to as the “Islamification of Europe”.

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