德国马格德堡圣诞市集遭汽车冲撞：5人死亡、200多人受伤
2024年12月20日晚，在德国萨克森-安哈尔特州首府马格德堡市，一辆汽车冲入市中心熙攘的圣诞市集，造成5人死亡、200多人受伤。马格德堡市官员 Ronni Krug 12月21日说，死者中包括一名9岁儿童与四名成年人，伤者中约41人伤势严重或危重。
警方说，肇事车辆在市集内冲行了至少400米，司机在现场附近的一处电车站被逮捕。警方一度怀疑车内有爆炸物并封锁现场，午夜前确认车内没有爆炸物。案发次日晚7时04分——与袭击发生的时刻相同——马格德堡全市教堂钟声齐鸣，为遇难者致哀。
被逮捕的司机现年50岁，是来自沙特阿拉伯的医生，2006年移居德国，在附近城镇 Bernburg 的一家诊所任精神科医生。马格德堡检察官 Horst Walter Nopens 12月21日在记者会上说，检方正按5项谋杀嫌疑与205项谋杀未遂嫌疑调查此案；作案动机尚未查明，一个正在调查的方向是嫌疑人对德国对待沙特难民方式的不满。德国内政部长 Nancy Faeser 表示，嫌疑人的伊斯兰恐惧症倾向显而易见，但她不就作案动机置评。
德国总理朔尔茨12月21日前往马格德堡视察并悼念遇难者。圣诞市集是德国数百年的节日传统，这起袭击震动全国，也使圣诞市集的安保措施成为各界追问的焦点。（来源：德国马格德堡检方与警方）
Car Rams Christmas Market in Magdeburg, Germany: Five Killed, More Than 200 Injured
On the evening of December 20, 2024, in Magdeburg, the capital of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, a car drove into the crowded Christmas market in the city center, killing five people and injuring more than 200. Magdeburg city official Ronni Krug said on December 21 that the dead included a nine-year-old child and four adults, and that about 41 of the injured were seriously or critically hurt.
Police said the vehicle traveled at least 400 meters through the market, and the driver was arrested at a tram stop near the scene. Police cordoned off the area on suspicion that an explosive device might be in the car, and determined by midnight that there were no explosives in the vehicle. At 7:04 p.m. the following evening, the exact time of the attack, church bells tolled across Magdeburg in mourning for the victims.
The arrested driver is a 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia who moved to Germany in 2006 and worked as a psychiatrist at a clinic in the nearby town of Bernburg. Magdeburg prosecutor Horst Walter Nopens told a news conference on December 21 that investigators were treating the case as five counts of suspected murder and 205 counts of suspected attempted murder. The motive had not been determined; one line of inquiry was the suspect's frustration with Germany's treatment of Saudi refugees. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said the suspect's Islamophobia was clear to see, but she declined to comment on the motive.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz traveled to Magdeburg on December 21 to visit the scene and mourn the victims. Christmas markets are a centuries-old holiday tradition in Germany, and the attack shocked the country and put the security measures at the markets under intense scrutiny. (Source: Magdeburg prosecutors and police)
来源：德国马格德堡检方与警方
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图片来源：图：袭击当晚，马格德堡圣诞市集附近街道被封锁，警车停在现场周边。Roy Zuo 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: On the night of the attack, streets near the Magdeburg Christmas market were sealed off, with police vehicles around the scene. Photo by Roy Zuo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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