held strongly anti-Islam views and was angry with Germany's migrant and asylum policy, officials said Saturday .and shocked the nation, days before Christmas and eight years after a jihadist drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin.
Germany has been hit by multiple deadly jihadist attacks, but evidence gathered by investigators and his past online posts painted a different picture of Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old doctor of psychiatry.In an unpublished interview with AFP from 2022 for an unrelated story, Abdulmohsen presented himself as"a Saudi atheist".
Taha Al-Hajji of the Berlin-based European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights told AFP Abdulmohsen was"a psychologically disturbed person with an exaggerated sense of self-importance". Die Welt daily reported, citing security sources, that German state and federal police had carried out a"risk assessment" on him last year but concluded that he posed"no specific danger".
It was important"that we stick together, that we link arms, that it is not hatred that determines our coexistence but the fact that we are a community that seeks a common future", he said. Far-right demonstrators hold a sign and flags during a protest after a car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market, in Magdeburg, Germany Dec 21, 2024. Surveillance video footage of the attack showed a black BMW racing straight through the crowd, scattering bodies amid the festive stalls that were selling traditional handicrafts, snacks and mulled wine.
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