And Saudi doctor in Germany for some time, 50 years, conspiracy theorist and against radical Islam: this is the shocking identikit of Taleb Al Abdulmohsenthe man arrested in Magdeburg accused of having run over the crowd with his car at breakneck speed Christmas markets. The budget reports two deathsincluding a child, and several dozen injured, some in serious condition.
The only certainty, at the moment, would concern a certain improvisation by the German authorities: Saudi sources have told Reuters that Riad had warned the German authorities on the dangerousness of the perpetrator of the attack. As the Bildthe attacker immediately labeled a “lone wolf” had published and reposted extremist statements on his X account accusing Germany of wanting Islamize Europe.
A very “cut” reading of the story begins to circulate, especially on the left: Dr. Taleb is described as “a fan of Elon Muskby a US conspiracy theorist like Alex Jones and British right-wing activist Tommy Robinson“: “If you listen to someone like Tommy Robinson or even Elon Musk… If you hear anything about Islamization, you'll think, 'Those two are conspiracy theorists.' But I can say from experience that everything Robinson, Musk, Alex Jones, or anyone described by the mainstream media as a right-wing radical or extremist says, is telling the truth,” the Saudi doctor wrote. However, as Der Spiegel points out, the attacker claimed not to be right-wing, describing himself left. A short circuit that further complicates the picture.
According to the suspected attacker, the German state is conducting a “secret operation” to hunt down and “destroy the lives” of ex-Saudi Muslims around the world, while at the same time Syrian jihadists is granted asylum in Germany”. For years he was an activist who mainly advised women from Saudi Arabia on how to escape their country. He was very active on X and also ran a website with information on the German asylum system. In recent years times, his tone became heated. In November he formulated four “demands from the liberal Saudi opposition” in X, the first point of which was: “Germany must protect its borders from illegal immigration. It has been proven that the open borders policy was a plan of the Merkel to Islamize Europe”, he wrote referring to the former German chancellor. Among other things, he also asked that all those who “attack refugees from Saudi Arabia” be prosecuted consistently. The motive for the attack, however, according to the police, it remains unclear at the moment. The security authorities have announced that “it is not yet possible to definitively classify” what happened. “We do not yet know the background to the crime, we are evaluating everything”, declared a police spokeswoman.
