Chancellor Scholz to visit site of Magdeburg attack

by · DW

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will visit Magdeburg on Saturday after a car drove into a crowd of people at a Christmas Market. Two people have been killed in the attack. DW has the latest.

  • Two killed, including a child, and at least 60 injured as car plows into crowd at Magdeburg Christmas market
  • Chancellor Scholz and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser are expected at Magdeburg on Saturday
  • The suspect has been arrested
  • The man is a Saudi citizen with permanent residency status in Germany. He had been in the country since 2006