A video of a police operation in Berlin has been misleadingly linked online to the Dec. 20 car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg in posts suggesting that Muslims were targeted by authorities following the attack.

The suspected perpetrator involved in the fatal incident at the Magdeburg Christmas market is expected to lose his medical licence, the regional administration for the state of Saxony-Anhalt announced on Friday.

Officials say five people have been killed, including a 9-year-old, after a Saudi doctor drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday.

Video showed a car plowing into a large crowd in the city of Magdeburg. The driver, identified as a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian citizen who worked as a doctor, was arrested.

Mourners are laying flowers near the scene of the deadly Christmas market attack as investigators puzzle over the motive of the suspect.

Disbelief dominates Germany’s Magdeburg at Christmas, days after the deadly car attack:: Magdeburg, Germany:: December 24, 2024“There is still the disbelief, the shock that this can happen like this and that it affects innocent people who have died and who have been injured.

At least two people are dead and over 60 people have been injured, local officials said. Latest updates.

One dead and up to 80 injured after car driven into crowd in Germany - At least 11 people have been killed and up to 80 injured after a car drove through a crowd at a Christmas market in Germany