Blood act on Christmas market: Investigations into alleged assassins T. A.

Blood act on Christmas market: Investigations into alleged assassins T. A.

In Magdeburg there was a terrible incident on Friday evening: Taleb al-Abdulmohsen raced by a car over the Christmas market and demanded five lives while around 200 more were injured. The alleged assassin, who has lived in Germany since 2006 and received asylum in 2016, was known to the authorities as a potential threat. Already in 2015, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania informed the Federal Criminal Police Office about the possible intentions of the 50-year-old's intentions, which threatened to act "international attention" due to conflicts during his specialist training, such as Zeit.de reported.

The threats were directed against the Medical Association in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and against a local authority in Stralsund. Despite the clear warning signals, the security authorities did not classify Al-Abdulmohsen as dangerous. Authorities such as the police in Saxony-Anhalt took investigations in November 2023, but these were classified as "unspecific". This shows that the reactions to his threats did not have the necessary seriousness. Peter R. Neumann, a renowned terrorist researcher, commented on the fact that such information is repeatedly ignored, which is a "big problem", reports .

After the fatal incident, al-abdulmohsen is now accused of the most severe crimes such as five-fold murder and attempted murder. The pressure on the security organs is growing, because it can be seen that despite the obvious threats due to its history, no necessary measures were taken. Holger Münch, head of the Federal Criminal Police Office, emphasized the need to link information again in order to be able to react more effectively in the future. Al-Abdulmohsen has been kept in custody since the attack.