The mum of a nine-year-old boy killed in the Christmas market horror attack in Magdeburg, Germany has promised him: “You will always live in our hearts.”
The schoolboy had previously lived in the Bavarian village of Floss, where his dad and other family still live. He and his mother moved to Warle, an hour from Magdeburg, two months ago. “I was probably lying on the road for an hour-and-a-half. A doctor took care of my foot, which was twisted by 90 degrees.”Anne was released from hospital with a black eye and severe bruises on Saturday afternoon but Matthias is still being treated.
He is understood to have been a practising Shia Muslim in Saudi Arabia but turned his back on his religion and became anti-Islam after moving to his adopted homeland.