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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole in Berlin

Victims of German Christmas market attack ‘retraumatised’ after receiving letters from suspect

people kneeling next to lots of flowers left at memorial
The letters were described as a violation. Photograph: Annegret Hilse/Reuters

The suspect in a deadly car ramming at a packed German Christmas market has written to victims of the rampage in letters sent to their homes with agitated appeals for “forgiveness”, triggering outrage from recipients.

A spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office in the state of Saxony-Anhalt confirmed that at least five people injured in the attack in Magdeburg in December last year that killed six people, including a six-year-old child, had received correspondence this month from the Saudi doctor Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, who is in pretrial detention in Berlin.

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