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

Alleged driver in car rampage that killed six and injured 300 people sends at least five survivors appeals for forgiveness'

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 December attack in Magdeburg 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.