German Doctor Jailed Over Christmas Market Attack

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A Saudi Arabian doctor living in Germany has been arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, and dangerous bodily harm after a deadly attack on a Christmas market in the town of Bernburg. The suspect was identified from a 2019 BBC documentary where he spoke about his work helping Saudi Arabians who had renounced Islam to flee to Europe. He is a vocal critic of Islam and had expressed support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on social media. Saudi Arabia had issued three warnings to German security authorities about the suspect.

The suspect has been ordered into pre-trial detention on counts of murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm

He is a fierce critic of Islam in the documentary and other interviews he took part in that year, telling Germany’s FAZ newspaper: “There is no good Islam.”People leave candles and floral tributes near the ‘Alter Markt’ Christmas market Saudi Arabia issued three warnings to German security authorities about the suspect, a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy who sympathised with the far-right Alternative for Germany party, officials said. It is unclear what the warnings contained.

The local prosecutor in Magdeburg, Horst Nopens, said a possible factor in the attack may have been the suspect’s “dissatisfaction with the treatment of Saudi refugees in Germany” but added that the motive remained unclear.Describing himself as a former Muslim turned atheist, Taleb A.

He told the BBC in 2019 he spent up to 16 hours a day on the platform and that 90 per cent of the people he helped were women aged between 18 and 30.says a complaint was filed with German authorities against the suspect in December 2023. It came after he allegedly posted on X that Germany would pay “a price” for the alleged persecution of Saudi Arabian refugees. The case ended up with the State Criminal Police Office of Saxony-Anhalt, according to the newspaper.

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