Germany's Christmas Markets Are Now Ringed with Security Barriers(nytimes.com)
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Germany's Christmas Markets Are Now Ringed with Security Barriers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/world/europe/germany-christmas-market-security-bollard-attacks.html
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Why would anyone attack a Christmas Market? Who attacks Christmas Markets?
Germany: Arrested 5 for suspected Christmas market plot (7 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262618
Driver plows into German Christmas market at least 2 killed, dozens injured (1 year ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42476073
Driver plows into German Christmas market at least 2 killed, dozens injured (1 year ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42476073
All the article says about them is: “a man steered a stolen truck into crowds in Berlin” (re:2016 attack), and “A man plowed a rented S.U.V. into the crowds there” (re:12/2024 attack).
Who are these men and why are they attacking innocent ppl?
Other sources:
— Eleven people died and 60 were seriously injured when the Islamist Anis Amri drove a stolen truck into a Christmas market in central Berlin on December 19, 2016. https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-islamist-terror-attack-a-deadly...
— German authorities are suspecting that the attack plans were based on an Islamist motive and that it would be carried out by car. The suspects include a 56-year-old Egyptian, a 37-year-old Syrian and three Moroccans aged 22, 28 and 30. […] Last year, a man drove an SUV into a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on December 20, killing six people and leaving over 300 others injured. The 50-year-old Saudi perpetrator, Talib A., had previously exhibited erratic behavior and threatened violence, drawing allegations of tip-off and intelligence failures. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-5-arrested-for-suspected-chris...