Germany: Magdeburg reaches agreement to open Christmas market
Authorities had blocked approval of permission to hold the traditional market due to security concerns a year after the deadly 2024 attack.
Magdeburg market
The Magdeburg City Council reported that it reached an agreement so that the Christmas market can finally open its doors. The information was made public after the mayor asked state authorities to tighten security measures a year after the deadly attack in 2024.
The Magdeburg 2025 Christmas market is scheduled to open on Nov. 20.
"Our goal is to keep the risk as low as possible and the security as high as possible," said Mayor Simone Borris.
The mayor thanked those who worked on reinforcing security to make the traditional market happen. "My gratitude goes to all the participants who participated directly and indirectly in today's talks and contributed to this outcome," Borris said.
The request to tighten security
"I'm the one who drove the car"
Justly, a Saudi man admitted Monday to ramming into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany in 2024, citing confusing political and religious considerations, at the start of the trial for the attack that left six dead and more than 300 injured.
"I am the one who drove the car," said Taleb Jawad al-Abdulmohsen, a 51-year-old doctor charged with the Dec. 20, 2024, murders of a nine-year-old boy and five women aged 45 to 75, and 338 attempted murders.
According to the indictment, he faces a life sentence.
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