Talib A, a Saudi-born doctor who was arrested immediately after the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday evening, in which four people were killed and around 60 others injured, including fifteen seriously, revealed himself to be fiercely hostile to Islam, a supporter of the extreme right and Zionism.
Information released on Saturday by the German press regarding the perpetrator of the attack indicates that Talib, aged 50, has lived in Germany since 2006 and has a permanent residence permit there.
The individual, who worked as a doctor in the town of Bernburg, shared messages on social media in which he was “concerned about the rise of Islam in Germany.”
The suspect, who also posted messages on social media supporting the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and other anti-Islamic far-right organizations in Europe, also shared a map of the so-called “Greater Israel”, which partly includes the territory of Turkey.
German media were able to obtain screenshots of the suspect's messages before his X account was suspended following the attack. In these images, he carries a rifle in a cover photo and accuses Germany of “wanting to Islamize Europe” and holds “the German nation responsible for the assassination of Socrates.”
Insults against Christians and Muslims
In a message “Germany will have to pay for this.”
In his May message, the suspect also said he seriously expects to die this year, adding that German authorities are blocking all peaceful paths to justice.
In a message in Arabic published around the same time, he also stated that “if Germany wants war, we will wage it. If Germany wants to kill us, we will massacre it, we will die or we will go to prison with pride . Because we have exhausted all peaceful means, we have been faced with new violations from the police, the police department, the prosecutor's office, the judiciary, the Ministry of the Interior Peace. is of no use to them.”
