Magdeburg [Germany], November 11: The man accused of killing six people by ramming a car into crowds at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg admitted on Monday that he was behind the wheel during the incident.
"I am the one that drove the car," Taleb al-Abdulmohsen said on the first day of his high-security trial, one of the largest in Germany's post-war history. Almost 11 months after the attack, which killed five women aged between 45 and 75 and a child, and injured 338, many of those affected were also present in court.
Prosecutors have charged 51-year-old al-Abdulmohsen with six counts of murder and 338 counts of attempted murder in relation to the attack on December 20 of last year.
Al-Abdulmohsen, a Saudi national, came to Germany in 2006, where he worked as a doctor with mentally ill offenders in a psychiatric facility.
Source: Qatar Tribune
