Saudi man arrested after deadly car attack on German Christmas market is reportedly an Anti-Muslim activist [Update @ Post#11]

[Cricket Warrior]

At least two people have been killed and dozens of others injured after a car was driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in Germany, local media reports.

News agency dpa said the driver has been arrested following the incident in the eastern city of Magdeburg, while public broadcaster MDR reports almost 70 people have been injured - 15 seriously.

A city spokesman said the initial assessment is that this was an attack, with all hospitals in the nearby city of Halle preparing for a mass casualty event, according to a security official.

German newspaper Bild reported at least 11 people had been killed, but the state's premier Reiner Haseloff later said two people are known to have died.

Germany: At least two dead and almost 70 injured after car ploughs into crowd in city of Magdeburg

Dozens have been injured in what's been described as a car attack at a Christmas market in a German city. At least 15 people are said to be badly hurt, with a hospital preparing to receive more patients from the scene.

news.sky.com

 

[DeadlyVenom]

I thought this nonsense had stopped.

RIP to the poor victims.

 

[sweep_shot]

Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun.

I hope the attacker will be caught and brought to justice.

 

[IndoorCricket]

Tragedy.. RIP all the poor souls

Who could be having such cruel intentions to kill people on a market road. Hindutva needs to be eliminated.

 

[Hitman]

RIP to the deceased! Hope the injured recovers soon.

A Saudi national has been arrested.

 

[mazkhan]

Interesting back story to the perpetrator saudi ex muslim hates islam , Saudi regime apparently given asylum ?

 

[Vikram1989]

Rip.


A Saudi ,well educated fellow , psychiatrist has been arrested.

 

[Champ_Pal]

Hopefully the Saudi national tells the media about his true intentions and what prompted him to take this extreme step.

 

[IndoorCricket]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1870257498302886149

is this for real?!

 

[BouncerGuy]

Suspect reported to have been critical of Islam

The Christmas market was bustling with people when a car ploughed through the crowd for at least 400 metres (1,312ft).

Footage then emerged of armed police confronting and arresting a man who can be seen lying on the ground by a stationary vehicle on a road in Magdeburg city centre.

A state official has said the suspect is a 50-year-old doctor who’s originally from Saudi Arabia - but first came to Germany in 2006. Most recently, he’d been working in a town about 25 miles (40km) away.

According to some German news reports, the suspect was not known to authorities as an Islamist extremist, while social media and posts online appear to suggest he had been critical of Islam.

Investigators have not publicly outlined a potential motive but say they believe, for the moment, that the alleged perpetrator acted alone.

BBC

 

[BouncerGuy]

Saudi man arrested after deadly car attack on German Christmas market

Saudi Arabia has expressed "solidarity" with Germany after a Saudi national was arrested following a deadly car-ramming attack in a Christmas market.

In the city of Magdeburg, located about 130 kilometers (80 miles) southwest of Berlin, the black BMW barreled through the crowd at high speed just after 7:00 pm local time on Friday when the market was filled with revelers.

Video footage showed the driver's arrest as police with their handguns trained shouted "lie down, hands on your back, don't move!" at the bearded man who was lying on the ground next to the heavily damaged car.

Police said the vehicle drove "at least 400 meters across the Christmas market" leaving a trail of bloodied casualties, debris and broken glass at the city's central town hall square.

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement on Friday on social media platform X expressed "solidarity with the German people and the families of the victims."

It "affirmed its rejection of violence."

Authorities said at least two people were killed, including a child, and 68 injured.

The suspect is a 50-year-old medical doctor living in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, said authorities.

"We have arrested the perpetrator, a man from Saudi Arabia, a doctor who has been in Germany since 2006," authorities told reporters, calling the attack a "catastrophe" for the city and the country.

"From what we currently know he was a lone attacker so we don't think there is any further danger."

German media partially named the suspect as Taleb A.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on X that "the reports from Magdeburg raise the worst fears."

"My thoughts are with the victims and their families. We stand by their side and by the side of the people of Magdeburg. My thanks go to the dedicated rescue workers in these anxious hours."

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has condemned the "brutal and cowardly act" in Magdeburg.

In a statement on X, the German politician said that her thoughts were "with the victims".

"My condolences go out to the family and friends, my thanks to the police and rescue workers," she said. "This act of violence must be investigated and severely punished."

Saudi man arrested after deadly car attack on German Christmas market

Saudi Arabia has expressed "solidarity" with Germany after a Saudi national was arrested following a deadly car-ramming attack in a Christmas market.

www.presstv.ir

 

[Bhaijaan]

Europe has a Muslim problem and the sooner they act on it the better it would be for them if they want to save their homeland and safeguard the future of Europe. They let in the absolute worst of the immigrants from the Muslim world and are now wondering what went wrong.

 

[BouncerGuy]

So he has no connections with Islam. He actually is anti-islamist

https://twitter.com/x/status/1870251681461489835

 

[BouncerGuy]

I think Musk didn't realize who this guy in reality is.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1870258448606372098

 

[aboveandbeyond]

Europe has a Muslim problem and the sooner they act on it the better it would be for them if they want to save their homeland and safeguard the future of Europe. They let in the absolute worst of the immigrants from the Muslim world and are now wondering what went wrong.

Saudis warned German Authorities about this guys Extremists views. He was a closet AFD Sympathizer (far Right Extremist Group) .

Yet you jumped to your anti muslim bandwagon to quickly.

 

[aboveandbeyond]

Hopefully the Saudi national tells the media about his true intentions and what prompted him to take this extreme step.

He's a exmuslim, whose converted into right wing extremism. With followers such as Tommy Robinson.

 

[mazkhan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1870257498302886149

is this for real?!

Let's see with further investigation


But if he hated muslims so much you would think he would have targeted muslims not german Christians?

 

[FearlessRoar]

Death toll from German Christmas market car-ramming rises to four, Bild reports​

The death toll from a car-ramming at a German Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg rose to four on Saturday, according to German newspaper Bild, after a Saudi man was arrested on suspicion of ploughing a car into the crowd.

Scores of people were injured in the attack on Friday evening, which came amid fierce debate over security and migration during an election campaign in Europe's largest economy in which the far right is polling strongly.

Police were not immediately available to comment on the reported casualty figures. Local officials had initially said at least two people were killed and had warned that the toll could rise.

The Bild report said 41 people were critically injured, 86 were receiving hospital treatment for serious injuries and another 78 sustained minor injuries.

German authorities are investigating a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who has lived in Germany for almost two decades in connection with the car-ramming. Police searched his home overnight.

The motive remained unclear and police have not yet named the suspect. He has been named in German media as Taleb A.
A Saudi source told Reuters that Saudi Arabia had warned German authorities about the attacker after he posted extremist views on his personal X account that threatened peace and security.

Der Spiegel reported that the suspect had sympathised with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The magazine did not say where it got the information.

Germany's domestic intelligence agency declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.

Germany's FAZ newspaper said it interviewed the suspect in 2019, describing him as an anti-Islam activist.

"People like me, who have an Islamic background but are no longer believers, are met with neither understanding nor tolerance by Muslims here," he was quoted as saying. "I am history's most aggressive critic of Islam. If you don't believe me, ask the Arabs."

Andrea Reis, who had been at the market on Friday, returned on Saturday with her daughter Julia to lay a candle by the church overlooking the site. She said that had it not been for a matter of moments, they may have been in the car's path.

"I said, 'let's go and get a sausage', but my daughter said 'no let's keep walking around'. If we'd stayed where we were we'd have been in the car's path," she said.

Tears ran down her face as she described the scene. "Children screaming, crying for mama. You can't forget that," she said.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is scheduled to visit Magdeburg later on Saturday.

His Social Democrats are trailing both the far-right AfD and the frontrunner conservative opposition in opinion polls ahead of snap elections set for Feb. 23.

The AfD has led calls for a crackdown on migration to the country.

Its chancellor candidate Alice Weidel and co-leader Tino Chrupalla issued a statement on Saturday condemning the attack.
"The terrible attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg in the middle of the peaceful pre-Christmas period has shaken us," they said.

A leading member of Scholz's Social Democrats in the Bundestag parliament warned against jumping to conclusions and said it appeared the attacker did not have an Islamist motive.

"Now we have to wait for the investigations. It seems that things are different here than was initially assumed," Dirk Wiese told the Rheinische Post newspaper.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/death-toll-german-christmas-market-car-ramming-rises-four-bild-reports-2024-12-21/

 

[aboveandbeyond]

Let's see with further investigation


But if he hated muslims so much you would think he would have targeted muslims not german Christians?

Last time I checked, Atheists do not believe in any Religion.

 

[Champ_Pal]

He's a exmuslim, whose converted into right wing extremism. With followers such as Tommy Robinson.

Nothing is verified yet. The truth will come out soon.
Lots of conflicting news on social media.