Magdeburg Christmas market attack suspect threatened act to 'attract international attention' in 2013
A German state interior minister said the 50-year-old suspect referred to the Boston Marathon bombings in the course of a dispute.
Sunday 22 December 2024 18:16, UK
Forensic experts investigate a damaged car at the scene. Pic: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP
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Forensic experts investigate a damaged car at the scene. Pic: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP
The suspect in the German Christmas market attack "threatened to do something that would attract international attention" in 2013 and was flagged as a potential threat the following year, according to a state interior minister.
Christian Pegel told a press conference the 50-year-old suspect had referred to the Boston Marathon bombings, in which three people were killed and hundreds injured in an Islamist terrorist attack in April 2013, during a professional dispute at around that time.
He was fined after no evidence was found of Islamist tendencies or that he was preparing to commit such an act, said the interior minister for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a state in northern Germany.
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