Police release details about shooting spree – ministry confirms criminal complaint

Almost a week after the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg with five dead and more than 200 injured the police have now the exact route of the perpetrator is revealed.

As the Magdeburg police station announced on Thursday, the perpetrator arrived in his car despite security measures via a sidewalk to the Old Market, where he is then Accelerated 250 meters through a pub alley.

The perpetrator is did not drive over the tram tracks towards the pedestrian area of ​​the Old Market. Rather, the crime vehicle was at the Ernst-Reuter-Allee/Breiter Weg intersection drove between a pedestrian traffic light and a concrete block barrier.

The police wanted to publish the exact route “misrepresentations still in circulation” as stated in a press release. Criminal charges were filed against the city and local police been charged with possible misconduct.

The Interior Ministry of Saxony-Anhalt also confirmed this to several media outlets, such as the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, ZDF and the Evangelical Press Service. Accordingly, a complaint was made to the Magdeburg public prosecutor’s office against the Magdeburg police and the operator of the Christmas market.

Security concept and operational planning in focus

This could do that Security concept for the Christmas market, police deployment planning and its implementation are the subject of the criminal investigation become.

According to media reports, the police are accused, among other things, of: Not all entrances to the Christmas market were protected as originally planned. This is how it should be, among other things a police vehicle was not at a designated location. The Interior Ministry also confirmed this to the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. Why this was the case is the subject of further investigation, it is said.

There was one on Friday evening last week 50-year-old driving a car unrestrained through an alley at the Christmas market drove in Magdeburg. According to police, the crime took three minutes from the time the car turned onto the sidewalk at 7:02 p.m. until the driver was arrested.

The perpetrator has been around since 2006 man from Saudi Arabia living in Germanywho most recently worked as a doctor in Bernburg near Magdeburg. The man was noticed on social networks as an aggressive critic of Islam and AfD sympathizer. He is in custody.