Olaf Scholz booed as he visits Magdeburg after Christmas market attack

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser were booed as the officials paid a visit to Magdeburg after the terrorist attack at the city's Christmas market, the Berliner Zeitung newspaper reports.

According to the newspaper, the crowd whistled and shouted "Get lost!" to the officials. A woman in the crowd addressed Scholz saying: "Do something! Or is something even worse than this should happen?"

In the evening of December 20, a car ploughed into a busy Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg. Five were killed, 205 were injured. The official representative of the government of Saxony-Anhalt, Matthias Schuppe, called the incident a terrorist attack.

The suspect in the attack was said to be a refugee. He works in Germany as a medical specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy. According to the Berliner Zeitung, the man is an anti-Islamist activist from Saudi Arabia. He was arrested.


Author`s name
Petr Ermilin