"Like a bad movie": Eyewitnesses describe horror of Christmas market car-ramming
Eyewitnesses to a fatal car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday described scenes of horror, after a car plowed into the bustling crowds and killed at least five people.
A toddler was among those killed in the attack, in which over 200 others were injured.
Speaking to German tabloid Bild, a firefighter named Christian said he rushed to the market immediately after the attack.
“It was like being in a bad movie. I walked through the devastated market, there were people lying left and right,” he said.
“The only thing that flashed through my head was: Which one of them am I helping now? I then grabbed the injured people who didn’t have anyone with them and took them to the respective treatment centers.”
Another woman, Nadine, attended the market with her boyfriend, Marco. She described the moment he was ripped away from her by the attacker’s oncoming car.
“He was caught and ripped away from my side. It was terrible. Nobody even shouted. You couldn’t hear the car either,” she told Bild.
Magdeburg resident Dorin Steffen was attending a concert in a nearby church when the attack happened. Speaking to German news agency DPA she said that the screech of the sirens and the cacophony of noises were so loud she could immediately tell something “terrible” had happened.
She described the attack as a “dark day” for Magdeburg, adding, “We are shaking.”
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