Murder trial of suspect in Christmas market car-ramming attack opens in Germany

Defendant Taleb al-Abdulmohsen sits in a bullet-proof glass box in the courtroom (Jan Woitas/dpa via AP)

A Saudi doctor has gone on trial on murder charges over the car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg last year that left six people dead.

The suspect, Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, 51, was brought by helicopter to a temporary courtroom in the eastern city specially set up for the trial, and sat behind a bulletproof glass screen.