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Magdeburg still grieves a year after Christmas market attack

Thomas Anderson
December 21, 2025

The German city of Magdeburg marked a year since a Christmas market car-ramming that killed six people and injured more than 300. For many, Christmas no longer feels the same, leaving a lasting sense of emptiness. Viewer discretion advised.

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On December 20, 2024, six people were killed at the Christmas market in central Magdeburg — five women and a nine-year-old boy — and more than 300 were injured, some seriously, when a man drove a vehicle into the crowd.

A year on, the perpetrator's precise motives remain unclear, while residents continue to carry the shock and grief.