On Friday (20th December) evening, a Saudi Arabian ‘doctor’ deliberately rammed his car into multiple people at a Christian market in Magdeburg city in Saxony-Anhalt state of Germany.
As per reports, at least 2 people were killed and 60 others were injured in the terror attack. One of the deceased was a young child.
According to the premier (Saxony-Anhalt) Reiner Haseloff, the attacker has been identified as a 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia.
Jihadist terror attack in Germany’s Christmas Market has killed at least 11 and injured over 60 in #Magdeburg. Heart goes out to all victims of the cowardly terror attack. Just last month I was at a Christmas Market in Germany. Prayers for safety of all. pic.twitter.com/KO1k7NByX7
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) December 20, 2024
The accused has lived in Germany for about 20 years and has a permanent residency. The police have now arrested him in connection to the case.
Premier Reiner Haseloff remarked, “It is a catastrophe for the city of Magdeburg, for the state and for Germany in general…As things stand at the moment, we are talking about a lone offender, which means that there is no further danger to the city because we were able to arrest him.”
According to a report by Reuters, Saudi Arabia had warned German authorities about the attacker after he had posted about his radical views on his X (formerly Twitter) account.
Seriously, @elonmusk, what exactly did X do after a user reported these (now deleted) posts published by the Magdeburg attacker? Which authorities were informed and when? pic.twitter.com/55PsaPlmbP
— Tim Röhn (@Tim_Roehn) December 21, 2024
According to journalist Tim Röhn, the attacker has been identified as Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen. He informed that Taleb openly posted threats on X (formerly Twitter) but the platform did not act against him
“I seriously expect to die this year. Reason: I will bring justice at any cost. And German authorities are impeding all peaceful pathways to justice. If you are a concerned German citizen, you should demand justice now. If you are not concerned, then ok but don’t complain later,” a tweet by the attacker read.
In the meantime, the Foreign Ministry of Saudi Arabia has condemned the terror attack.
#Statement | The Foreign Ministry expresses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's condemnation of the incident that took place in a market in the city of Magdeburg in the Federal Republic of Germany in which a car plowed into crowds, resulting in the death and injury of a number of… pic.twitter.com/Ozc85f0GpZ
— Foreign Ministry 🇸🇦 (@KSAmofaEN) December 21, 2024
The CCTV footage of the incident is now doing the rounds of the internet.
The police have so far not found any explosive device attached to the vehicle of the attacker. A team was dispatched to Bernburg town, where Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen resided.
In 2016, a Tunisian refugee Anis Amri rammed his truck at a Christian market in Berlin and killed 12 people.
How Germany exacerbate the refugee crisis
At the height of the migrant crisis in Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that the country had the ‘economic strength’ to take in refugees.
She also claimed that there was no upper limit to the number of refugees that the country could take in. Angela Merkel had come under fierce criticism for not consulting the federal States.
Seehofer, the leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), had criticised the Chancellor and estimated that 30% of all refugees were from Syria.
He had called upon the EU to cut funding to member States that reject mandatory refugee quotas.
A German study in 2018 found that the country’s fourth-most-populous state, Lower Saxony, witnessed an increase in violent crimes due to incoming migrants.
Between 2007 and 2014, the region saw a 21.9% decline in such crimes. However, there was a 10.4% hike by 2016 end. It was found that Lower Saxony had about 7.5 lakh residents without German citizenship.
By 2016 end, only 1.5 lakh migrants had applied for asylum. 92.1% of the total increase in crimes in Lower Saxony was attributed to the incoming migrants.
Bloomberg reported, “Between 2014 and 2016, the share of solved violent crimes attributed to asylum seekers increased to 13.3 percent from 4.3 percent — a disproportionately high share compared with the state’s foreign population…The breakdown of specific crimes committed by the asylum seekers is equally thought-provoking. In some 91 percent of murders and three-quarters of cases involving grave bodily damage, the victims are other migrants.”
The liberal, open-border policies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel had turned the country into the most sought after destination for refugees.
Between January and December 2015, a whopping 1.091 million asylum-seekers registered with the German government for their distribution among federal States.
However, in February 2016, the government conceded that it lost track of 13% of the asylum seekers.
Reportedly, the migrants did not move to their accommodation and instead migrated to other European countries or kept living in the country illegally.
The result of left-liberal indoctrination was such that a German politician by the name of Selin Gören lied about the racial identity of the 3 perpetrators who raped her in 2016.
The woman was caught off guard by the men at night in a playground and forced to perform sexual acts. She had concealed the fact that the accused spoke in Arabic /Farsi.
She claimed that she did not want to stoke hatred against migrants in Germany. The policies of the German government to wholeheartedly welcome the refugees proved costly.
