MAGDEBURG and LONDON — A judge granted an arrest warrant for murder on Saturday for the suspect accused of killing five people by allegedly plowing a car into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, police said on Sunday.
A German official in the city of Magdeburg separately confirmed to ABC News that the suspect, Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, 50, who is originally from Saudi Arabia, appeared before a German judge in Magdeburg on Saturday. A local state prosecutor said during a press conference on Saturday that the suspect’s first name is “Taleb,” but police have not otherwise publicly named him.
A judge ordered “pre-trial detention for five counts of murder and multiple counts of both attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm,” Magdeburg’s police department said in a statement issued in German on Sunday morning.
The police statement listed the ages and gender of the five people killed, saying they were a 9-year-old boy, and four women, aged 45, 52, 67 …