Magdeburg death driver: warnings ignored, Christmas market bloody!

Magdeburg death driver: warnings ignored, Christmas market bloody!

A turbulent and tragic event shakes Germany: The alleged death driver Taleb A. attacked a Christmas market in Magdeburg with a loaned BMW off-road vehicle on Friday evening at around 7 p.m. and killed at least five people and injured around 200 more. As Oe24 reported, the 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia recently appeared and often expressed aggression over political figures, including former former Chancellor Angela Merkel, who he wished to death. In his social media, he propagated confusion and showed himself as a persecuted activist who turned against a supposed Islamization of Germany.

missed warnings and official failure

Despite repeated warnings that Taleb A. pregnant, he was able to carry out his devastating act. Security advisor Malte Roschinski explains that Taleb A., who was known as a human rights activist, lived in a kind of conspiracy hysteria in which he accused the state and the police to support Islamists. According to yahoo news This case illustrates the failure of the security authorities, which did not consider his threats to be serious. Roschinski emphasizes that the many confused statements by Taleb A. could have overwhelmed the authorities and may have been lost in a variety of other threats.

The Saudi security services had already issued a warning on November 23, 2023 that Taleb A. may plan a violence. However, these warnings were not classified as immediately threatening, which ultimately was permitted. Ignoring an earlier conviction for threatening crimes increases the impression of a deep gap in the security of the authorities towards such potential attackers.

observer describe Taleb A. as an exception with a problematic psychology. He moved in an ideological area that contained both pro-western ideas of human rights as well as ultra-right conspiracy theories and increasingly exposed tendencies to violence. The danger of such unpredictable perpetrators, who can operate with various ideological motifs, has already been present in the past, but is particularly clear in this case.