Candles stand at the site of a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on December 27, 2024. Magdeburg has been in deep mourning over the mass carnage on December 20, 2024, when an SUV smashed through a crowd at its Christmas market, killing four women and a nine-year-old child and injuring 235 people. (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)