Mourners stand around a makeshift memorial of flowers and candles for the victims of Friday’s Christmas market attack in Magdeburg. A source close to the Saudi government has told Agence France-Presse that Saudi authorities previously requested the extradition of the main suspect in Friday’s Christmas market attack in Magdeburg.
Echoing reporting from over the weekend, the source said Saudi Arabia had warned Germany “many times” about Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a Saudi citizen with a history of spreading anti-Islamic propaganda on social media. He did not explain in what way he was considered potentially dangerous. “There was request,” the source told AFP, without giving the reason for the request, adding that Riyadh had warned he “could be dangerous.”, which killed five people, might have been preventable. Reports have emerged about lapses in security, questionable immigration decisions and attempts by police to confront the 50-year-old over threatening behaviour that were allegedly not followed through. Abdulmohsen, a consultant psychiatrist, is being held in police custody on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and grievous bodily harm. Four women and a nine-year-old boy were killed in the attack, when a black Mercedes SUV ploughed 400 metres into crowds of people at the Christmas market in the centre of Magdeburg, in eastern Germany. More than 230 people are now known to have been injured in the three-minute attack, 41 of whom remain in a critical condition. The injured figure was revised upwards on Monday, from a previous number of about 200. Holger Münch, the head of Germany’s federal criminal police office, BKA, told German television Germany had received a warning from Saudi Arabia last year, but on investigation had found it too vague to act upo
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