On Friday evening, a Saudi Arabian ‘doctor’ rammed his car deliberately into multiple people at a Christian market in Magdeburg city in Saxony-Anhalt state of Germany. According to the media reports, at least 2 people were killed and 60 others were injured in the terror attack. One of the deceased was a young child.
According to the premier (Saxony-Anhalt) Reiner Haseloff, the attacker has been identified as a 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia. The accused has lived in Germany for about 20 years and has a permanent residency. The police have now arrested him in connection to the case. Premier Reiner Haseloff remarked, “It is a catastrophe for the city of Magdeburg, for the state and for Germany in general. As things stand at the moment, we are talking about a lone offender, which means that there is no further danger to the city because we were able to arrest him.”
According to the media reports, Saudi Arabia had warned German authorities about the attacker after he had posted about his radical views on his X (formerly Twitter) account. According to journalist Tim Röhn, the attacker has been identified as Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen. He informed that Taleb openly posted threats on X (formerly Twitter) but the platform did not act against him.
The Foreign Ministry of Saudi Arabia has condemned the terror attack, “I seriously expect to die this year. Reason: I will bring justice at any cost. And German authorities are impeding all peaceful pathways to justice. If you are a concerned German citizen, you should demand justice now. If you are not concerned, then ok but don’t complain later,” a tweet by the attacker readIn the meantime”.
The CCTV footage of the incident is now doing the rounds of the internet. As of now, the police have not found any explosive device attached to the vehicle of the attacker. A team was dispatched to Bernburg town, where Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen resided. In 2016, a Tunisian refugee Anis Amri rammed his truck at a Christian market in Berlin and killed 12 people.
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