Saudi doctor who killed six people and injured 300 more by driving a car through Christmas market is jailed for life in Germany

A Saudi doctor who killed six people and injured hundreds after he rammed a car into crowds at a German Christmas market has been jailed for life. 

The 2024 attack in Magdeburg shocked the country and stirred up tensions over the charged issue of immigration, months before a general election that was held in February 2025.

The defendant, Taleb Jawad al-Abdulmohsen, 51, was a psychiatrist originally from Saudi Arabia, described by officials as having a history of anti-Islamic rhetoric and far-right sympathies.

The court in Magdeburg ruled on Friday that the crime was of ‘particular severity’, a designation that will make it much harder for

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