His name is Taleb Jawad Hussein Al Abdulmohsenthe fifty-year-old doctor of Saudi origin who on Friday evening threw himself into the crowd at the Christmas markets in Magdeburg, a city southwest of Berlin, killing at least four people and injuring sixty-eight, 15 of them seriously. The man acted alone, aboard a previously rented black SUV.Taleb Al Abdulmohsen He first arrived in Germany in 2006 and has lived in the country ever since, according to security sources cited by Der Spiegel. «That’s why I was threatened: they wanted to massacre me if I returned to Saudi Arabia. So I decided to ask for asylum in Germany. It wouldn’t have made sense to expose yourself to the risk of having to return and then be killed,” she said of her desire to stay in Germany. In 2019, the prestigious German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung interviewed him and the Saudi doctor stated that he was «the most aggressive critic of Islam in history and good Islam does not exist». Precisely following his personal experience, Taleb Al Abdulmohsen founded the wearesaudis.net forum, which soon became an essential point of reference for atheists trying to leave Muslim countries. This initiative has given him a certain notoriety, with his story and commitment documented in articles and interviews appearing on international media such as the BBC and Al Jazeera. The BBC, in particular, described him like this in 2019: «Taleb Al Abdulmohsen, now living in Germany, once lived and worked in Saudi Arabia, where he was unable to openly express his atheism. Once he obtained asylum in Germany, he decided to develop the website wearesaudis.net with the aim of providing an information platform to support other individuals who found themselves in the same situation.”
An Islamic fundamentalist? On his profile X @DrTalebJawad where you see a huge Ar-15the American-made semi-automatic rifle known for being the most used in mass massacres in the United States, sI read dozens of posts in which he rails against Islam and comments in favor of the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as well as outright delusions: «Germany is Islamizing Europe and the crimes committed by German authorities. Saudi military opposition. Germany pursues Saudi asylum seekers, in and out of Germany, to destroy their lives. Germany wants to Islamize Europe». His positions show the portrait of a man who has broken with Islam even though he has published posts in support of ISIS and, on the contrary, denounces the dangers of the Islamization of Germany. The attack took place on board a car launched at high speed, which hit the crowd for over 400 metres. The author impressed dozens of people during the traditional pre-Christmas walk among the stands of the Christmas market, where many had gathered to taste mulled wine.
According to Saudi sources reported by Reuters, the Riyadh authorities had alerted the German secret services about the danger of the attacker. If this is confirmed, someone will have to explain why they did not intervene and left him free to kill.
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