What we know about suspect in Christmas market attack in Germany

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The suspect, identified by local media as 50-year-old Taleb A., was arrested after plowing a black BMW into a Christmas market crowded with holiday shoppers in Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least five people and wounding more than 200 others.

As Germany mourns the death of at least five people after a vehicle intentionally plowed into a crowded Christmas market, authorities are working to understand the suspect behind the attack.The suspect – identified by local media as 50-year-old Taleb A. – had been living and working as a psychiatry and psychotherapy specialist in Germany for two decades, authorities said.

'Prominent German terrorism expert Peter Neumann posted on X that he had yet to come across a suspect in an act of mass violence with that profile.Neumann, the terrorism expert, wrote: 'After 25 years in this 'business' you think nothing could surprise you anymore. But a 50-year-old Saudi ex-Muslim who lives in East Germany, loves the AfD and wants to punish Germany for its tolerance towards Islamists — that really wasn't on my radar.

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