Flowers, candles and a deathly silence at Magdeburg Christmas market

Members of Magdeburg's fire department stand at a makeshift memorial outside the Johannes Church on Sunday, near the site of Friday's attack on a Christmas market. Photograph: John MacDougall/AFP via Getty ImagesRed and white tape flattered in the wind, a belated decorative addition that clashed with the candy-stripe awnings of the shuttered wooden huts near city hall.

On Friday just after 7pm a rented black SUV entered the market’s open main avenue – where a police van was supposed to be standing as a barrier – and cut down people left and right. German authorities described him as a “completely atypical” suspect: an anti-Islamist self-described “atheist Muslim” who, on social media, demanded the execution of ex-chancellor

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