What did the German police know about Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, the alleged perpetrator of the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market on Friday December 20? Why hadn't the intelligence services identified him as potentially dangerous? Two days after the tragedy, which left five dead including a 9-year-old child, and more than two hundred injured at a Christmas market in the capital of the Land of Saxony-Anhalt (East), the authorities are being blamed.
The Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, promised an investigation to determine the reasons why the police did not react to the information that had been transmitted to them over the years on this psychiatrist. of Saudi origin aged 50, living in Germany since 2006. The minister and senior officials will be heard on December 30 by the Bundestag's internal affairs committee, proof of the pressure from MPs on the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, two months before early elections which will be held at the end of February.
The authorities, immediately after the attack, clarified that he was not identified as an extremist by the intelligence services. However, it quickly emerged that the suspect was active on the social network « islamiser l’Europe ». His messages show that he maintained links with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, whose positions on immigration he shared.
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