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[Regnum] A car driving into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, was caught on video. Local authorities called the incident a terrorist attack.
According to preliminary data, the car was driven by a native of Syria. This information is being verified.
According to eyewitnesses, the car was moving deliberately towards people.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the incident occurred on the evening of December 20. According to the T-online portal, at least 11 people died at the scene, and about 60 were injured. Later, information appeared that two cars drove into the crowd. The drivers were quickly detained. The circumstances of the tragedy are being established. The authorities called the incident a terrorist attack.
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Magdeburg Christmas market car attack: Saudi Arabian doctor, 50, who killed at least two is 'an ex-Muslim who ranted against Germany for Islamising Europe'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The perpetrator of the deadly Christmas market massacre that has left at least two dead and nearly 70 injured is an anti-Islam doctor who arrived in Germany in 2006 as a refugee from Saudi Arabia, MailOnline can reveal.
The attack, carried out by 50-year-old psychologist Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, saw him ram into a massive crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg on December 20 with a dark BMW.
Footage taken in the minutes after the crash, which happened at around 7pm, showed al-Abdulmohsen get arrested at gunpoint by German police.
MailOnline can reveal that al-Abdulmohsen, a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy from the Saudi Arabian city of Hofuf, moved to Germany in 2006 and lives in Bernburg. He has been recognised as a refugee since 2016.
Previous media reports suggest he had worked to help ex-Muslims, particularly women, to flee Saudi Arabia after turning their backs on the religion.
Analysis of his social media reveals tweets in support of Germany's anti-immigration party AfD, while he has also made comments supporting Elon Musk, far-right thug Tommy Robinson and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
| Ok. What does that have to do with him accelerating his car into the crowd at a Christmas market in a rented car? |
No official motive for the attack has been identified by police.
Authorities in Magdeburg say two people are dead, including a toddler, while 68 people were injured in the rampage, 15 of them seriously.
In videos posted hours before the attack, he claimed that German authorities were opening his mail and stealing items including a USB stick.
'I consider the Germans, as citizens, responsible for the persecution I am facing' he said in one video.
'Currently in this country, the nation that is actively criminally chasing Islam critics is the German nation', he said in another.
A search of his name and details of his work revealed he was interviewed by the Frankfurter Rundschau, a regional newspaper, in 2019
'He came to Germany as a visiting doctor during his specialist training as a psychotherapist and later applied for asylum here because he had been threatened with death for turning away from Islam. The 44-year-old is recognized as a political refugee', the newspaper wrote of him five years ago.
In the Frankfurter Rundschau interview, he described his work with the wearesaudis.net website, a group dedicated to providing information on 'escape routes' for people living in Saudi Arabia, particularly women.
He said in the 2019 interview: 'Nine out of ten people from Saudi Arabia who ask me about the asylum system are women.
'Other asylum activists report similar figures. This may be because for Saudi Arabian women, asylum is the only path to justice. Even if a woman is not oppressed, her fate depends on her male guardian.
'There are women who say that they have good husbands who do not oppress them, but they wonder what will happen if the man dies.
'If the new man beats her, she will not get any help. A woman is only protected if she has powerful men in her family.'
Just five days before carrying out the attack, Al-Abdulmohsen gave an interview with the right-wing RAIR Foundation in which he said: 'If a Syrian citizen applies for asylum in Germany, the chance to be granted asylum is 99.8%… While if a Saudi citizen applies for asylum in Germany, that chance is only 70%, and I know personally that many of those rejected are ex-Muslims.
'Germany is welcoming Syrians—including many Islamists—while simultaneously rejecting Saudi apostates, people who are genuinely fleeing Sharia-based death sentences.'
Since news of the attack spread around the world, RAIR said in a statement: 'If these reports are accurate, it appears we and other media outlets were misled regarding his true intentions.
'We are actively seeking more information and will provide updates as they become available.' 
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