By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
AUTHORITIES in Germany, on Sunday, said an arrest warrant for murder has been granted by a judge for the suspect accused of killing five people by allegedly driving a car into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
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The 50-year-old suspect, Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, a doctor from Saudi Arabia, appeared before a German judge in Magdeburg on Saturday.
A local state prosecutor said during a press conference on Saturday that the suspect’s first name is “Taleb,” but police have not otherwise publicly named him.
A judge ordered “pre-trial detention for five counts of murder and multiple counts of both attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm,” Magdeburg’s police department said in a statement issued in German on Sunday morning.
The police statement listed the ages and gender of the five people killed, saying they were a 9-year-old boy, and four women, aged 45, 52, 67 and 75.
According to Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff, at least 200 more people were injured on Friday when a car drove into festive market-goers in the eastern German city, around 75 miles west of the capital Berlin.
Stonix News gathered that 41 of those injured in the attack are in serious condition.
The suspect has lived in Germany since 2006. A rental car was used in the attack, Stonix News further gathered.
The first emergency call came in at 7:02 p.m. local time and the driver was stopped within three minutes of the attack, according to a police official. Police believe the suspect entered via the space left open for emergency vehicles to access the area.
Police said they believe the suspect acted alone. The prosecutor said they are still clarifying a motive behind the attack.
Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told reporters on Saturday that it was “clear to see” that the suspect had “Islamophobic views.”
Police said the suspect has undergone physical and psychological exams, but police do not yet have the results.
Police told reporters on Saturday that the Magdeburg Christmas market will be closed for the remainder of the season.
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