Media reported drugs in the blood of the hit-and-run driver in Magdeburg

German police have found drugs in the blood of a man who ran over a crowd of people in Magdeburg. This was reported by the newspaper Bild on Saturday, December 21, citing sources in police circles.

"After the horrifying deadly attack at the Christmas fair in Magdeburg, Bild has learned from police sources that Taleb A. (50 years old) apparently used drugs," the material said.

According to the publication, the positive result showed the first test of the suspect for the possible presence of seven types of drugs.

At the moment at the scene of the terrorist attack arrived Chancellor of the FRG Olaf Scholz. As can be seen in the footage of "Izvestia", at the moment the fair is closed, law enforcement officers are working there.

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

There are dead and wounded

The night before at the fair in Magdeburg, a car crashed into a crowd of people. According to the latest data, four people were killed, including a small child, another 205 injured. The representative of the German government in the state of Saxony-Anhalt Matthias Schuppe called what happened a terrorist attack.

Soon it became known about the detention of the suspect - a native of Saudi Arabia born in 1974. The police specified that he most likely acted alone. Information about the presence of an explosive device in his car was not confirmed.

Scholz, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Polish President Andrzej Duda and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban expressed their condolences to the families of the victims. The Russian Embassy in Germany is clarifying information about the presence of Russian citizens among the injured.