Terror at the Christmas market: Magdeburg under shock by violence!

Terror at the Christmas market: Magdeburg under shock by violence!

A serious incident shakes the Christmas market in Magdeburg: a mentally polluted psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia raced into the crowd with a BMW off-road vehicle and cost many life. According to the first reports, up to 200 people have been injured, some of them seriously. The perpetrator, Taleb A., who moved to Germany in 2006, had spread his radical criticism of the German authorities in the past about social media and posted hateful messages against the supposed Islamization of Germany, as the SRF reported. Among other things, he had announced that he would take revenge because Germany was not sufficiently concerned about Saudi refugees.

Saudi-Arabia warned in advance of the alleged perpetrator, but delivery remained unanswered, as OE24 The incident is fatally reminiscent of the terrorist attack at the Berlin Christmas market in 2016. The gap in the security system between the concrete blocks that the perpetrator used, raises questions that have to be clarified quickly after the attack. At a press conference on site, Chancellor Olaf Scholz shaked himself: "What a terrible deed.

The investigation is in full swing, and the first tests showed that the perpetrator was tested positively for drugs. It remains unclear what exactly prompted him to do this terrible act. Is there a deeper reason for his outbreak of violence? The question of the protection of citizens is now becoming louder: While a Christmas market should be shaped here by joy and celebrations, the impression of uncertainty and fear of losing freedom remains.