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• German Christmas market attack: Police got tipoffs about suspect last year

  German authorities said they received tipoffs last year about the suspect in a car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg as more details emerge about the five people killed.

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  Dec 22, 2024
  
• German Christmas market killings: What we know about the suspect

  Identified by local media as 50-year-old Taleb A., a psychiatry and psychotherapy specialist, authorities said he has been living in Germany for two decades.

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  Dec 21, 2024
  
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• Death toll in apparent Christmas market attack in Germany rises to 5

  Germans on Saturday mourned victims after a doctor drove into a busy holiday market, killing at least five people, including a small child, and wounding 200 more.

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  Dec 21, 2024
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• Three people severely injured after knife attack on German train, Red Cross says

  The train in question, one of Germany's high-speed ICE trains, was traveling between the Bavarian cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg at the time of the attack.

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  Nov 6, 2021
• German city grieves after 5 people, including baby, killed in pedestrian zone attack

  Among the five killed were a 45-year-old man and his 9 1/2-week-old daughter.

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  Dec 2, 2020
• Germany to increase police presence after deadly racially motivated shootings

  The suspect left a number of rambling texts and videos espousing racist views, authorities said, and claimed to have been under surveillance since birth.

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  Feb 21, 2020
• One man arrested after 7 injured in axe attack at Duesseldorf train station

  German police said they had detained at least one man who attacked five people at Duesseldorf central train station with an axe on Thursday.

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  Mar 9, 2017
• Donald Trump blames terrorists for killings in Turkey, Germany

  Donald Trump condemned separate deadly incidents against a Russian diplomat and shoppers at a German Christmas market, blaming Islamic terrorism in both instances.

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  Dec 19, 2016
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• Authorities raid mosque in northern Germany

  Authorities in northern Germany say police have raided a mosque believed to be a "hot spot" for Islamic extremists in the city of Hildesheim.

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  Jul 27, 2016
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• Ansbach attacker influenced by chat room directly before explosion, German officials say

  A 27-year-old Syrian asylum seeker who blew himself up at a bar in the southern German town of Ansbach was chatting online with a still-unidentified person immediately before the explosion, Bavaria's interior minister said Wednesday.

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  Jul 27, 2016