Investigators found a will in Magdeburg hit-and-run driver's car
In the car of the man who committed a hit-and-run at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, investigators found a will. This was reported by Der Spiegel magazine on Monday, December 23.
According to the publication, the will states that all the assets of the man after his death should go to the German Red Cross Society. Thus, the newspaper concludes, the attacker probably expected to die in the attack.
At the same time, there were no political statements in the document, the newspaper said.
In the evening of December 20 at the fair in Magdeburg, a car crashed into a crowd of people. In addition to the five dead, more than 200 people were injured, the condition of many is assessed as extremely serious. The authorities consider what happened as a terrorist attack.
Soon the suspect was detained - 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. According to the newspaper Bild, in the blood of the man found drugs. He explained his actions by the poor treatment of refugees from his country by the German authorities.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechayev expressed their condolences to the families of the victims.
Scholz visited the site of the tragedy on Dec. 21 and said it was important to investigate the terrorist attack, as well as to preserve the unity of the nation during a difficult period. At the same time, he and Interior Minister Nancy Feather were booed in Magdeburg. In a conversation with Izvestia, residents of the city criticized the policies of Scholz and the country's government, while the Alternative for Germany (AdG) party called for an urgent meeting of the Bundestag in connection with the incident in the city.
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