Saudi authorities reportedly warned Germany about the man alleged to have carried out Friday’s attack on a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg that left five dead and dozens injured, according to German security officials.that Riyadh warned the German authorities the suspected attacker, Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a Saudi dissident who described himself as an ex-Muslim, had boasted on social media that “something big will happen in Germany”.
American broadcaster CNN also spoke to a source with knowledge of the communication who said that the Saudis first warned Germany in 2007 with concerns about his radical views. Prosecutor Horst Walter Nopens linked the motive behind the attack – yet to be classified as terror – to “dissatisfaction over treatment of Saudi refugees in Germany”.“This was clear to see,” she said, but declined to elaborate on the man’s political affiliationsof Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition government in November. The government has had to combat a profound economic slump and rising anti-immigrant sentiment.
His employer issued a statement on Saturday which said: “The alleged perpetrator is a psychiatric specialist employed in the Bernburg correctional facility, who has been working here since March 2020. However, he has not been on duty since the end of October 2024 due to vacation and illness.” His interviews and social media posts reveal him as a militant critic of Islam who nurtured sympathies for the hard-right populist party, Alternative for Germany , which is fiercely opposed to Muslim immigration.
“But a 50-year-old Saudi ex-Muslim who lives in East Germany, loves the AfD and wants to punish Germany for its tolerance towards Islamists – that really wasn’t on my radar.”
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