Nine-year-old Andre Gleissner was one of the five victims of Friday's attack in Magdeburg. “Let my little bear fly around the world again,” his mother wrote in a farewell message on social media. The local fire brigade also paid tribute to the memory of the nine-year-old deceased. The boy belonged to his children's section.
On Friday evening, a passenger car driven by a Saudi man who had been living in Germany since 2006 sped into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, eastern Germany. Five people were killed and 200 injured in this attack. The criminal was arrested.
Police said the victims were a 9-year-old boy and four women aged 45, 52, 67 and 75.
The newspaper Bild reported that the death of nine-year-old Andre Gleisner. He was at the fair with his family, with whom he moved to neighboring Lower Saxony in 2024.
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Police at the scene of the attack in Magdeburg FILIP SINGER/PAP/EPA
“Let My Little Bear Fly Around the World Again”
Desiree Gleisner, the mother of the nine-year-old who died, posted a farewell message on Facebook.
“Let my little bear fly around the world again… Andre has done nothing to anyone… he was only 9 years with us on earth… Why is this… I just, why, I don't understand. .. you are now in heaven with your grandparents, they miss you so much… as much as we miss you now, you will always live in our hearts… I promise you that,” she wrote.
She added in another entry: “I'm not talking about it. Thanks for all your condolences.”
Firefighters also said goodbye to nine years old
Local firefighters from Schöppenstedt commune in Germany also said goodbye to the deceased son. The boy was a member of a children's section in Varle, near Magdeburg.
“It is with deep sadness that we also mourn the loss of Andre, a member of the Warl Children's Fire Brigade, who left us far too early. Our thoughts are with Andre's loved ones, who we wish to support at this difficult time.” . Firefighters appealed to the family of the deceased boy for help.
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“We ask ourselves, is there still a safe place?”
Friedrich Kramer, bishop of the evangelical church in central Germany, also spoke about the victims during a memorial service in Magdeburg.
– Surprised, we ask ourselves if there is still a safe place that no one will destroy? Where is this? One that no one destroys. How do we explain to our children that the boy died at the Christmas market? How can we talk about this without arousing fear, anger and hatred? – he turned to the believer.
Flowers at the fair, at the site of the attack in MagdeburgPHILIP SINGER/EPA
Main photo source: Désirée Gleißner/facebook
