Germany Tries to Untangle Complex Profile of Market Attack Suspect

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Authorities said they were suffering as they understood why a car rammed into a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg, killing a 5-year-old boy. nine years.

By Christopher F. Schuetze and Melissa Eddy

Christopher F. Schuetze reported from Bernburg, Germany, and Melissa Eddy from Berlin.

He criticizes the Gerguy government and radical Islam on social networks. A lonely neighbor who seemed to live most of his life on the Internet. A guy whose excessive political posts online sparked an alert for Gerguyy from Saudi Arabia.

Gerguy’s government on Sunday sought to reconstruct the complex profile of the man arrested on suspicion of killing five other people while driving an SUV. among the crowd at a Christmas market two days earlier, an attack that shocked the country.

The authorities have described the suspect as a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who had been living in Germany for nearly two decades. They say they are still trying to determine his motives. The Salus Clinic in Bernburg, a town about a half-hour drive from Magdeburg, said that the man worked as a psychiatrist in their closed ward, treating offenders who suffer from drug addiction.

The victims in the assault, which took place in the eastern city of Magdeburg, were a 9-year-old boy and four women aged 45 to 75, the police said in a statement on Sunday.

More than two hundred other people were injured, 41 of them seriously, in the attack that shattered the peace of the Christmas period in Germany, celebrated in numerous open-air markets across the country.

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