00:00Saxony-Anhalt's interior minister has defended security measures in Magdeburg two days after
00:07a car drove into the city's Christmas market, killing five and injuring more than 200.
00:13Tamara Ciesiang said there was a high police presence at Christmas markets across the state.
00:19The state police prepared intensively to secure Christmas markets across the state.
00:27We have also used the new legal possibility for unnecessary checks of bags and backpacks
00:36intensively, especially in Magdeburg, on the Christmas market, to enforce the weapon and
00:39knife ban in the Christmas markets.
00:43The suspect, known only as Taleb Ayers, a Saudi national who moved to Germany in 2006.
00:49He was charged with murder and attempted murder on Sunday.
00:53But German authorities are now under pressure to explain why they didn't act more swiftly
00:58on tip-offs they received about him last year.
01:01The head of the federal criminal police office said they'd received a tip-off from Saudi
01:05Arabia which led authorities to launch appropriate investigative measures.
01:10But he said the warnings proved to be unspecific.
01:28And the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees also said it received a tip-off about Taleb
01:33Ayers late summer last year.
01:35But the office said it's not an investigative authority and that it referred the information
01:39to the responsible authorities.
01:41Meanwhile, the Christmas market in Magdeburg has reopened but with an increased police
01:46presence.
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