Scholz visits site of Christmas market attack that killed at least 5 and injured over 200

(21 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Magdeburg, Germany - 21 December 2024
1. Debris on ground of Christmas market, police van in background, before arrival of leaders
2. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz walking with others
3. Christmas decoration
4. Scholz walking
5. Box on floor at Christmas market
6. Scholz walking towards Johannis church
7. Scholz putting down wreath
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
"People come together. A few days before Christmas Eve, before Christmas, to be together for a bit of contemplation, but also to celebrate and drink mulled wine and eat bratwurst. What a terrible act it is to hurt and kill so many people with such brutality. We have now learnt that over 200 people have been injured. Five have died so far. An unbelievable number, almost 40 are so seriously injured that we must be very worried about them."
9. Christmas market
10. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
"And that is why this is a terrible, tragic event in which we all sympathise with the relatives, with the injured, with the city of Magdeburg must show our sympathy. And that is why, as Federal Chancellor, I would like to express the solidarity of the entire country and all those who bear responsibility in Germany in this matter. That goes to the heart. And we will and we must stand together here."
11. Christmas market
12. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
"And of course we have to understand the offender's actions, his motives, so that we can react to them with the necessary criminal law and other consequences. And we will do that."
13. Woman crying
14. Flowers in front of Johannis church
15. Candles
16. Woman crying
17. Man crying
18. Candles
STORYLINE:
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Saturday that nearly 40 of the victims wounded in an attack on a Christmas market were "so seriously injured that we must be very worried about them.”

Scholz spoke during a visit to Magdeburg, where a Saudi doctor on Friday drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in what authorities have described as a deliberate attack, killing at least five people, including a small child, and injuring more than 200 others.

Authorities arrested a 50-year-old man at the site of the attack on Friday evening and took him into custody for questioning.

He has lived in Germany for nearly two decades, practicing medicine in Bernburg, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Magdeburg, officials said.

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