The German authorities are under pressure to explain why a doctor accused of murdering a child and four women with a car at a Christmas market was not stopped despite being well known to police.
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Taleb al-Abdulmohsen’s criminal record, including a 2013 conviction for threatening acts of violence, recent online threats and an outburst in court, have prompted calls for an inquiry.
It has also emerged that the route used to attack the market in Magdeburg, left free of static concrete barriers to allow access for emergency services, should have been blocked by a police van but was not.
Nancy Faeser, the interior minister, whose Social Democrat party (SPD) is facing probable defeat in national elections early next year, promised that Abdulmohsen’s calls for violence on social media would be scrutinised.
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