Chaos at the Christmas market: The incredible killing spree of Magdeburg!

Chaos at the Christmas market: The incredible killing spree of Magdeburg!

A nail in the meat of the nation! In the middle of the Magdeburg Christmas market, a cruel attack occurred that put people in shock. On Friday evening, a car ruthlessly raced through the market visitors and ended in a bloodbath. The balance of this amocran: at least two dead and numerous injuries. The identity of the perpetrator: Taleb al Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia. Incredible, but true: This man had lived in Saxony-Anhalt since 2006 and received asylum in Germany in 2016 after he had turned away from his faith as a atheist and a sharp Islam critic. In an interview with the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", he described himself as the "most aggressive critic of Islam in history" and feared persecution in his homeland.

But the nightmare continues: How Ansage.org irritating details that make the motifs of abdulmohsen appear in questionable light. Despite his radical Islam criticism, he apparently had connections to IS sympathizers and increasingly expressed confusion on social media, right down to threatening threats. Shortly before the attack, he spread an ominous code word that culminated in a paranoia tornado who ultimately demanded many victims. The attack could literally have been a textbook example for IS terrorist techniques, and questions about the true background of the alleged opponent of Islam are now at the top of the agenda of the investigative authorities.

warning boards overlooked?

Now the focus of the investigations is on the authorities, because the question depends on the air: Would the growing signals be pursued more clearly about abdulmohsen? Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said decided that additional investigations would uncover which authority had already known from the perpetrator in advance. ZDF reports that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (bamf) already in the last late summer Had received abdulmohsen, but was referred to the fact that he had been forwarded to a corresponding investigative authority. It remains to be clarified which steps were initiated.

This catastrophic incident is a serious example of how urgently the need for action in the monitoring of potential threats is, not least to ensure the security of the citizens. Politicians are under massive pressure to provide answers and to clarify responsibility before similar horror scenarios could appear.