Saudi Arabia says it alerted Germany three times about the attacker

Saudi Arabia says it alerted Germany three times about the attacker
Saudi Arabia says it alerted Germany three times about the attacker

Two days after the car-ramming attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market in Germany, which left at least five dead and two hundred injured, the suspect, Taleb Jawad al-Abdulmohsen, a fifty-year-old Saudi psychiatrist, was imprisoned on the evening of Saturday December 21, said the police of this town in the Saxony-Anhalt region. Information relayed by Le Figaro.

« The responsible judge ordered pre-trial detention » of this doctor specializing in psychiatry and psychotherapy, born in Saudi Arabia, said a press release. Taken to a correctional facility, he is charged with the murder of five people, aged between nine and seventy-five, ” several attempted murders » et « serious assault and battery ».

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After the arrest, the Magdeburg district prosecutor's office quickly ” requested an arrest warrant for murder and attempted multiple murder “. The head of the regional government, Reiner Haseloff, informed that Taleb A. had “ acted alone “, calling him ” lone wolf ».

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Three alerts from Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, the suspect's country of origin, claimed on Saturday December 21 that it had nevertheless warned the German authorities three times about the suspect's worrying profile.

Taleb Jawad al-Abdulmohsen is said to have become radicalized in recent years, especially against Germany, accused of tolerating or even encouraging “ the Islamization of the country » through immigration. “ Germany hunts Saudi asylum seekers at home and abroad to destroy their lives. Germany wants to Islamize Europe », he assures in the description of his profile on his X account.

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Last June, he also accused the German police of being the “ real engine of Islamism in Germany ».


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