"Hundreds of mourners held a candle vigil at Magdeburg's Christmas market on Saturday, December 20, to commemorate the first anniversary of a car-ramming attack that killed six and injured over 300 last year. Footage shows a monument surrounded by candles and flowers, as participants lined the street with candles in hand to pay tribute to the victims. "My children and I were there that evening. Nothing happened to us, but I can't be happy because that's unfair to the victims," shared a mourner. The candles were lit at 7:02 pm local time, according to attendees, to remember the tragic event that occurred exactly at that moment. Commenting on this year's measures to step up security, one respondent noted, "There are patrols around, and we’re all more attentive to each other and looking out for each other more often. But absolute safety will never be guaranteed." "I believe that at the time, we thought we all did the right thing, including the government. Only through disasters and so on does it all come back to the forefront, and that’s important," she added. Others demanded that the government 'engage with people' and look after the future generation, instead of 'sending money all over the world'. "What are you doing for our education, for our children? We have to bring in additional workers from abroad. Why haven’t you done anything for our own descendants for 20 years, Mr Merz?," a mourner confronted German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who was at a local church to hold a memorial service commemorating the attack. Christmas markets with their colourful decorations, tasty festive snacks, and hot drinks have been an annual tradition in Germany for centuries. The tradition was marred by several terror attacks in recent years. On December 19, 2016, an Islamist attacker plowed through a crowd of Christmas market visitors at Berlin's Gedachtniskirche church with a truck, killing 13 people and injuring dozens more. Last year, six people died as a result of another car-ramming attack on a market in the city of Magdeburg just a few days before Christmas."