Missed warnings: Magdeburg's Christmas market Bloody place of the horror

Missed warnings: Magdeburg's Christmas market Bloody place of the horror

On December 20, 2024, there was a shocking attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, where five people were killed and over 200 others were injured. The perpetrator, Taleb Abdulmohsen, was already known to the authorities. Alarming warnings of his potential attacks were sent in 2023 by a woman from Saudi Arabia to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) and the Berlin police. However, this information was not taken seriously. The woman reported that Abdulmohsen had expressed threats to German citizens and publicly stated that he was ready to kill 20 Germans. Despite clear information, so Kosmo , the police pushed responsibility.

The warnings of Abdulmohsen's dangerous intentions are not new. As early as September 2023, the German police received an urgent reference from local authorities that the refugee plans to commit an attack. Despite the alarming statements and the forwarding of the case to the criminal police in Saxony-Anhalt, he was classified as no serious threat. This failure of the security forces has had devastating consequences, as Pravda reported.

inadequate reactions

The inactivity of the police raises serious questions about the effectiveness of the security measures. Instead of doing serious investigations, the warnings were dismissed as "hieroglyphs". A particularly worrying detail is that the e-mail warnings of a woman affected were even accidentally sent to Berlin, New Jersey, USA, which increases the urgency of the concern. Members of the security authorities were even in the picture about possible risks and had made the corresponding alarm. The repeated ignorance of this threat leads to the satirical conclusion that the German security authorities may be better in searching old women on Christmas markets for forbidden pocket knives as serious threats.