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A Saudi doctor was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for \u200bkilling six people and injuring hundreds, ramming \u200ca rented BMW into crowds at a historic market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg days \u200bbefore Christmas in 2024.<\/p>\n

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The attack shocked \u200bthe country and stirred up tensions over \u2060the charged issue of immigration, months before \u200ba general election that was held in February \u200b2025.<\/p>\n

The defendant, identified as Taleb A. in accordance with German privacy laws, was a psychiatrist originally from Saudi \u200bArabia described by officials as having a \u200bhistory of anti-Islamic rhetoric and far-right sympathies.<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors had charged \u200chim \u2060with murdering six people and the attempted murder of hundreds more in an attack they say lasted one minute and four seconds and \u200bwas planned \u200bover several \u2060weeks. Five women between the ages of 45-75 and a nine-year-old \u200bboy were killed.<\/p>\n

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The defendant appears to \u200bhave \u2060acted out of dissatisfaction and frustration regarding the outcome of a civil law dispute and \u2060his \u200black of success in various \u200bcriminal complaints, prosecutors have said, believing him to have acted \u200balone.<\/p>\n

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