Dark BMW reportedly drove into crowd in eastern German town of Magdeburg in what is being described as a terror attack

Summary

A car ploughed into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least two people, including a child, and injuring 68 others, 15 critically, in what authorities are treating as a terror attack.

The suspect, identified as Taleb A., a Saudi Arabian psychiatrist living in Germany since 2006, was arrested at the scene. He allegedly drove a rented BMW through the crowded market, targeting families and children.

The attack raised concerns about security at Christmas markets despite preventive measures like bollards. German and French leaders expressed shock and condolences.

This incident follows heightened vigilance since a 2016 truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 13 people.

  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    911·
    3 days ago

    Library democracy wrings its hands and lets extremist ideologies fester, both through being too weak and placating to act at home and too weak to rein in abuses against Muslim nations abroad. The result is fascism in one form or another is elected to cut out the cancer. Sadly this is often done by cutting deep into the moderate communities tangentially related to terrorist extremists. Ugly the whole thing.

    • UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Library democracy wrings its hands and lets extremist ideologies fester, both through being too weak and placating to act at home and too weak to rein in abuses against Muslim nations abroad.

      Not sure what a “library democracy” is supposed to be, but the rest of that sentence does not make sense in this context: the attacker is a rightwing nutjob who liked AfD and Musk posts, not a djihadist or anything like that.

      • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        “liberal democracy wrings its hands”. Liberal democracy does not take seriously the fact that a lot of its population prefer either far far slower cultural integration or a more homogenous culture. Or both.

        The rise of Christian nationalist terrorism is the result.

        Global trade is preferred by capitalists, governments and urban elites. So the struggle takes on a class quality. It’s the working class who place a different degree of value on what they perceived to be their culture. And it’s the working class that tend to be on the receiving end of immigrations less pleasant side effects.

        (That’s not meant to imply immigration is a bad thing, I don’t think it is, done properly)

        The result is the resurgence of fascism.