Five people killed and more than 200 injured after car ploughed into busy Christmas market
Saudi authorities repeatedly warned Germany about the man alleged to have carried out Friday’s attack on a Christmas market in the east German city of Magdeburg that left five dead and dozens injured, according to German security officials. The officials said Riyadh warned the German authorities the suspected attacker, Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a Saudi dissident who described himself as an ex-Muslim, had boasted on social media that “something big will happen in Germany”.
He gave extensive interviews to German newspapers about his activism in 2019, describing himself to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as “the most aggressive critic of Islam in history”. “If you don’t believe me, ask the Arabs,” he said. “After 25 years in this business, you think nothing could surprise you any more,” wrote Peter Neumann, an expert in terrorism at King’s College, London, on X.
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