Tributes paid to child killed in German Christmas market attack
A local fire brigade has paid tribute to a nine-year-old boy killed in an attack on a German Christmas market.
Andre Gleissner died after a car plowed into a crowd of shoppers at a market in Magdeburg on Friday evening, according to the Schopenstad fire department.
In a statement they said he was a member of the children’s fire brigade in Warle, which is about an hour’s drive from Magdeburg.
Four women aged 45, 52, 67 and 75 also died in the attack. are officers pretrial detention of a suspect In case of murder, attempt to murder and grievous bodily harm.
