Another massacre at the street market, dead and injured in Germany. “It’s terrorism”

At 7.04pm a car hit several people at the Christmas market in Magdeburgin Germany. The news is reported by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, the public radio and television broadcaster of the Länder of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt And Thuringiaquoting the spokesperson of the regional government. There is talk of at least 80 injured but the situation in the center of Magdeburg is extremely confusing and the number of deaths is still uncertain. According to eyewitnesses, the driver was driving his car wildly in a zigzag pattern. For the German authorities it is a “terrorist attack”.

According to what I learned from The World According to security sources, the perpetrator of the attack is believed to be a man born in Saudi Arabia in 1974. He rented the vehicle shortly before the attack.

The emergency services and firefighters intervened at the scene of the accident. The driver of the vehicle was arrested. The spokesperson of the local government, Matthias Schuppecited by Bildstated that a man drove a car between the stalls in the town hall square, causing an as yet unknown number of deaths and injuries. The perpetrator of the attack would have been arrested. As reported by the “Mitteldeutsche Zeitung”, immediately after the attack the city of Halle has increased security measures for its Christmas market. Hospitals in the city, about 80 kilometers away, are preparing to welcome the wounded. He stated it Tobias Teschnerhead of the security department of the city of Halle.

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani stated that “at the moment there are no Italians involved”, adding: “It seems there are eleven dead and sixty injured, but it is an approximate figure, we must wait for official news”.

What happened is a dramatic reminder of what happened on 19 December 2016 when the Tunisian Islamic extremist Anis Amri he threw himself into the crowd on board a truck, causing a massacre at the Berlin Christmas market. The attack caused 13 deaths and around seventy injuries Anis Amri after a daring escapehe was killed in Sesto San Giovanni around 03.00 in the morning, after shooting at some officers who had stopped him for a routine check near the train station. After his death, Amaqthe Islamic State news agency, released a video in which Amri pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.