Attack on Magdeburg Christmas market FAZ

Saxony-Anhalt’s Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) reacted with horror to what happened at the Magdeburg Christmas market. “This is a terrible event, especially now in the days before Christmas.”Haseloff said. He now wants to get an idea of ​​the situation on site and is in the car on the way to Magdeburg. Haseloff was initially unable to provide any information about the victims or the background to the incident.

CDU party leader Friedrich Merz wrote on Platform X “very depressing news” and thanked the emergency services. “My thoughts are with the victims and their families,” he wrote. Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens) commented on the situation in a similar way: “What terrible news from Magdeburg, where people wanted to spend the Advent season in peace and community”he wrote on X.

SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil also reacted with dismay to the alleged attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market. “This is terrible,” Klingbeil wrote on X. “I think of the many injured, victims and their families. Thanks to the rescue and emergency services on site.”

The FDP chairman Christian Lindner was also upset by the alleged attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market. “In Magdeburg, many people were victims of a fatal attack,” wrote Lindner on X. “The pictures shocked me. I’m thinking of the victims, their families and the emergency services on site.”