Berlin, 21 December 2024 – La Germania she is upset after the bloody attack which impressed visitors to a Christmas market in Magdeburg. The police arrested a 50 year old Saudi doctor, Taleb Al Abdulmohsen, who was driving a car and hit the crowd, causing the death of five people and the wounding another 200.
The expired Saudi passport of Taleb Al Abdulmohsen, the Magdeburg Christmas market attacker
Who is the attacker
But what is known about the attacker? And why would he have acted? According to the ‘Bild’ is called Taleb Al Abdulmohsen and was born in Saudi Arabia in 1974. He has lived in Germany since 2006 and he is a doctor. The 50-year-old works in the local clinic Bernburga city of 32 thousand inhabitants about 50 kilometers from Magdeburg. The apartment of Al Abdulmohsen is located in an old building: in the night the special forces they broke into the house and the basement in search of useful elements for the investigation and to understand the motive for the attack.
The car used by the attacker to overwhelm the crowd at the Magdeburg Christmas market
Hatred towards Islam
Police have not yet determined whether the attack may have been Islamist matrix or linked to psychological problems of man. In an interview with the 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung' in 2019, the Magdeburg attacker had harshly criticized Islam: “I am the most aggressive critic of Islam in history.” In his words, it was impossible to return to Saudi Arabia: “They wanted to massacre me. So I decided to ask for asylum in Germany. It would have made no sense to expose himself to the risk of having to return and then be killed.” The doctor also stated that he had founded an online platform to help Saudi women to ask for asylum in Germany.
The attack on Germany
There is no shortage of imaginative theories about Germany on Taleb Al Abdulmohsen's social media profiles: “Germany is hunting Saudi asylum seekers inside and outside the country to destroy their lives. Germany wants to Islamize Europe”he had written in his social profiles, on some occasions also showing a photo of one machine gun with “USA” written on it. The doctor had also shared content to praise the far-right party Afd and his attitude towards Islam. There is also a retouched photo of the former chancellor Angela Merkel holding a sign with the words “I have destroyed Europe”.
Elon Musk fan
According to the The mirrorTaleb Al Abdulmohsen is fan at Elon Muskof a US conspiracy theorist like Alex Jones and of the British right-wing activist Tommy Robinson. German media also reported in a tweet in which the 50-year-old wrote: “If you listen to someone like Tommy Robinson or even Elon Musk… If you hear something about Islamization, you will think: 'The two of them are conspiracy theorists. But I can say from experience that anything Robinson, Musk, Alex Jones, or anyone described by mainstream media as a radical or right-wing extremist says is the truth.”
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