Magdeburg Police criticizes reports on the topic of “dangerous warning” in relation to the attacker who killed five people and injured 200 on the city’s Christmas market last Friday.
The reporting is “partially incorrect”, the police said on the second Christmas day. At no point were “written dangerous warnings sent to the suspect”. A document circulating in this context, which allegedly proves that the police contacted the suspect in writing, as a dangerous warning, and the subsequent reporting by individual media is false. “The document records a conducted dangerous warning, the protocol was signed by the suspect”, the Magdeburg Police said.
According to the police, a first dangerous warning was given to the suspect on September 28, 2023, in person at the Salzlandkreis police station. A second one was given on October 4, 2024, in person at the suspect’s workplace. Furthermore, two attempts were made on December 2, 2023, and one on December 4, 2023, and another on December 5, 2023, to give a dangerous warning.