The bloody attack -- in which a 50-year-old Saudi medical doctor was arrested near the battered car -- comes just days before Christmas. Image: Ronny HARTMANN / AFPNews magazine Der Spiegel, citing security sources, said the Saudi secret service had warned Germany’s spy agency BND a year ago about a tweet in which Abdulmohsen threatened Germany would pay a “price” for its treatment of Saudi refugees.
He said 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”. Police and prosecutors cautioned they were at the beginning of their investigation into what motivated the attack.
A harsh critic of Germany’s past welcome to many Muslim migrants, he wrote on the platform X that he wished ex-chancellor Angela Merkel could be jailed for life or executed. The chairwoman of the group Central Council of Ex-Muslims, Mina Ahadi, said that the Saudi suspect “is no stranger to us, because he has been terrorising us for years”.