Factbox-Facts about the suspect in German Christmas market attack


A police car secures an entrance of the Christmas market on the Breitscheidplatz, after a car rammed into a crowd of people at the Magdeburg Christmas market, in Berlin, Germany December 21, 2024. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

BERLIN (Reuters) - Here is what we know so far about the man who was arrested as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack on Friday at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg in which five people were killed and some 200 injured.

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