Tributes have been paid to a nine-year-old boy who was killed in an attack on a German Christmas market. André Gleissner died after a car drove into a crowd of shoppers at the market in Magdeburg on Friday evening, a local fire department said.
A social media post, reportedly attributed to André’s mother, called him “my little teddy bear” and said he would “always live in our hearts”.
Four women, aged 45, 52, 67 and 75, also died in the attack. Authorities are holding a suspect in pre-trial detention on counts of murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.
