The nine-year-old boy killed in Friday’s Christmas market attack is now ‘with grandma and grandpa in heaven’, his mum said. André Gleißner was one of five victims when a black BMW rammed through crowds celebrating the festive season. Of 200 victims, 41 people were seriously or very seriously injured.
Image Credit: Metro [MAGDEBURG, GERMANY - DECEMBER 21: German fire fighters stand in silence during a prayer ceremony at the Magdeburg Dom church, the day after a terror attack that has left five people dead, including a small child, and over 200 injured, on December 21, 2024 in Magdeburg, Germany. Police arrested a man after he drove a black BMW past security obstacles and into the busy Christmas market in the early evening yesterday. The attacker, identified as Taleb A., is reportedly a Saudi national who has been living in Germany since 2006 and worked as a psychotherapist. In social media posts he was critical of Germany but also of Islam and the "Islamization" of Germany. He expressed support for policies of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). (Photo by Omer Messinger/Getty Images)]
Heartbroken mother Desiree posted on Facebook: ‘Let my little teddy bear fly around the world again. André didn’t do anything to anybody. He was only with us on Earth for nine years. Why you? Just why?. ‘I don’t understand. Now you are with grandma and grandpa in heaven.
Image Credit: Metro [A policeman stands protecting the crime scene of the shuttered Christmas market]
‘They missed you very much, as much as we miss you here now. You will always live in our hearts. I promise you that.’. More details of the victims were given today, with police saying in an update that the women killed ranged in age from 45 to 75.
Image Credit: Metro [People light candles outside Magdeburg Cathedral after a memorial service for victims of Friday's Christmas Market attack, where a car drove into a crowd, in Magdeburg, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)]
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video. Up Next. Meanwhile, it emerged that German police had been warned about the suspect in Friday’s deadly Christmas market attack but did not see a ‘concrete threat’.
Image Credit: Metro [The car that was rammed into a large crowd of revellers at a Magdeburg Christmas market is seen following the attack in Magdeburg, Germany December 21, 2024. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY]
The alleged killer, a doctor named as Taleb A who had been granted asylum as a refugee from Saudi Arabia, was active on X as an anti-Islam activist who felt betrayed by Germany for letting in the ‘wrong’ refugees and not doing enough to help Saudi women.
Image Credit: Metro [People attend a memorial service outside the cathedral close to the Christmas market, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, in Magdeburg, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)]
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