Musk called on Scholz to resign after the Magdeburg incident

American entrepreneur Ilon Musk once again called German Chancellor Olaf Scholz a fool after the incident in the German city of Magdeburg and called on him to resign immediately.

"Scholz should resign immediately. Incompetent fool," Musk wrote on social network X (formerly Twitter), commenting on a user's post about Scholz's reaction to the terrorist attack.

What happened in Magdeburg: a car drove into the crowd at the Christmas fair

There are dead and wounded

The car collision with a crowd in the city of Magdeburg in Germany became known earlier in the day. According to the portal T-Online, 11 people died as a result of the incident. The newspaper Bild with reference to the rescue service specified that the number of victims may be from 60 to 80 people. According to the MDR broadcaster, Matthias Schuppe, the representative of the German government in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, called it a terrorist attack when a car hit a crowd of people at the Christmas market.

Later, Die Welt newspaper reported the arrest of a suspect in a hit-and-run attack on a crowd in Magdeburg. It also reported an unknown object in the back seat of the car, which experts believe may contain an explosive device.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed condolences to the families of the dead and injured. The Russian Embassy in Germany is clarifying information about the presence of Russian citizens among the victims. The Bild newspaper reported that Scholz and the head of the Ministry of the Interior, Nancy Feiser, would arrive in Magdeburg on December 21.