Bil kör in i folksamling på julmarknad, Magdeburg, Tyskland 2024-12-20.

A trial begins on Monday for a man accused of carrying out an attack on a Christmas market in the eastern German town of Magdeburg last December in which six people were killed and more than 300 others wounded.

The suspect is a doctor from Saudi Arabia, who has been named as Taleb A., in line with German privacy laws.
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Taleb A., who is now 51 years old, will appear in Magdeburg regional court charged with murdering six people - a nine-year-old boy and five women between the ages of 45 and 75.

He is also charged with attempted murder in relation to another 338 people.
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They [åklagarna] said his aim seems to have been "to kill an indeterminate number of people". They said he planned and prepared the crime in detail over several weeks without the help of accomplices.