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A pistillate has died from injuries sustained aft a antheral drove a car into a German Christmas marketplace past month, bringing the full decease toll from the onslaught to six.
The 52-year-old died successful infirmary 2 weeks aft the car ploughed into the packed marketplace successful Magdeburg, prosecutors said.
At slightest 299 radical were injured successful the onslaught connected 20 December, according to the latest figures from the interior ministry of Saxony-Anhalt.
Four different women aged 45 to 75, and nine-year-old André Gleißner were besides killed.
The Federal Victims' Commissioner Roland Weber told German media that arsenic galore arsenic 531 radical whitethorn person been traumatised oregon suffered economical losses arsenic a effect of the attack.
Fifty-year-old Taleb al-Abdulmohsen was arrested astatine the scene, but the suspected attacker's motives stay unclear.
He has lived successful Germany since 2006 and is described arsenic a Saudi psychiatrist who was surviving astir 50km (30 miles) southbound of Magdeburg, successful the municipality of Bernburg.
Abdulmohsen was granted asylum successful 2016 and ran a website that aimed to assistance different erstwhile Muslims fly persecution successful their Gulf homelands.
In galore online posts Abdulmohsen voiced powerfully anti-Islam views and enactment for far-right conspiracy narratives connected the "Islamisation" of Europe.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said it was "clear to see" the fishy held "Islamophobic" views.
"The perpetrator does not acceptable into immoderate erstwhile categorisation. Every chromatic volition beryllium turned implicit here," she said.
Abdulmohsen has been ordered into pre-trial detention connected counts of murder, attempted execution and unsafe bodily harm.
Police judge helium acted alone, but German authorities are facing questions about information and what they knew astir the fishy accused of utilizing an entree lane for exigency vehicles to thrust into the market.
They are besides fielding questions aft reports they were warned past twelvemonth astir the suspect, with constabulary saying they had evaluated whether helium mightiness beryllium a menace a twelvemonth ago.
A root adjacent to the Saudi authorities told the BBC it had sent 4 authoritative notifications known arsenic "Notes Verbal" to German authorities, informing them astir what they said were "the precise utmost views" held by Abdulmohsen.
However, a counter-terrorism adept told the BBC the Saudis whitethorn person been mounting a disinformation run to discredit idiosyncratic who tried to assistance young Saudi women question asylum successful Germany.
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