A automotive ramming right into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, has reignited security issues and serves as a stark reminder of earlier assaults on Christmas markets throughout Europe, together with assaults in Berlin, Strasbourg, and different cities in recent times.
A automotive drove right into a crowded outside Christmas market within the japanese German metropolis of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at the least 5 folks and injuring greater than 200.
Comparable assaults have focused Christmas markets in different cities, together with the 2018 assault in Strasbourg, France, the place 5 folks have been killed and a number of other extra have been injured, in addition to incidents in Nantes, France, and different cities in Germany.
Guaranteeing the protection of Christmas markets has been a heightened concern since 2016, when an Islamist extremist drove a truck right into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 13 folks and injuring dozens extra.
Christmas markets are widespread in Germany and the nation hosts an estimated 2,500 to three,000 Christmas markets every year, operating for about a month from late November till shortly after Christmas.
Timeline of main assaults on Christmas markets in Europe:
Germany has not too long ago seen a sequence of suspected Islamist knife assaults.
In August, three folks have been killed and eight others injured throughout a stabbing spree at a avenue competition within the western metropolis of Solingen.
Authorities arrested a Syrian suspect in reference to the assault, which was later claimed by IS.
In June, a police officer misplaced his life in a knife assault in Mannheim, with an Afghan nationwide recognized as the principle suspect.
