And'auto launched at speed into the crowd it caused panic Christmas market a Magdeburg in Germanialeaving behind dead and wounded. The man driving was arrested by the German police: his name is Taleb Al Abdulmohsen and is a 50-year-old doctor originally from Saudi Arabia. German media describe him as a anti-Islam activist and close to the far right, fans of Elon Musk.
Cars on passersby at the Christmas markets, who is the attacker
According to German media reports, it is a Saudi doctor the manager of the 50-year-oldattack occurred on the evening of Friday 20 December Magdeburgin the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
The man driving a rented BMW shortly before launched himself at breakneck speed into the people crowding the Magdeburg Christmas market, killing 2 people and injuring 68, several of them seriously.
Who is Taleb Al Abdulmohsen
As reported by The mirror, the attacker is called Taleb Al Abdulmohsen. Lives in Bernburg and works as a doctor in a private facility.
Fifty years old, he had arrived in Germany fromSaudi Arabia in 2006, obtaining refugee status.
He is not a radical Islamist, on the contrary: as he reports Afphad escaped from his country because atheist and denounced the dangers of the Islamization of Germany.
The mirror describes it as a fan at Elon Muskby the American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and British far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
His bio on X reads: “Saudi military opposition. Germany pursues Saudi asylum seekers, in and out of Germany, to destroy their lives. Germany wants to Islamize Europe.”
As his cover image he has an Ar-15, the semi-automatic rifle sadly known for being the most used weapon in mass massacres in the United States.
The investigations
They are underway investigations To clarify what happened, the German police carried out searches in Bernburg, where the attacker lived.
According to what has been reconstructed so far, the man would have acted alone. However, the motive is not yet clear.
The event “cannot yet be definitively classified”, a police spokesperson said.
If at first a jihadist origin was hypothesized, as with other similar attacks that occurred in Europe in recent years, Taleb Al Abdulmohsen's biography takes everything in another direction.
Photo source: ANSA/Fb
