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After the deadly terror attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, the capital of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, it has emerged that German officials received several warnings about the alleged perpetrator over the past few years but failed to act on them. Users on X who ran afoul of the terrorist reported his threatening conversations to the German Polizei, and for whatever reason, be it conversations in English or general disinterest, the German authorities never acted on any of the tips they received. In fact, when prosecutors in Cologne received threats directly from Taleb A himself, the German police reacted with...a stern letter. ...After a threatening e-mail to the Prosecutor’s Office in Cologne in 2023, Taleb A received a letter from police telling him “to stop writing such letters”. As much as it seems sentiment is united against Scholz, it is divided by the usual schism of left-leaners versus everyone else being 'far-right.' There have been peaceful marches through the site of the market by tens of thousands of Germans, who called for deportations in the wake of the atrocity. They are, of course, being characterized as right-wing extremists and using the tragedy for political purposes. Maybe they've seen enough to see through the calls to reject hate for what they are - calls to accept the current situation as their new normal. Accept this chaos and fear as the new Germany.
… tried to stab the elderly man in the stomach, according to police When police arrive on scene, they are confronted with the Syrian who keeps rushing at them with a knife, resulting in one officer firing a warning shot. Police then ram the suspect with their vehicle A police woman also sustained an injury during the man's chaotic arrest. This is now the Christmas season in Germany. Update from MSN at 2:00 p.m. ET: New information is emerging about the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg last Friday, which claimed the lives of five people. It has been revealed that the German police had contacted the perpetrator a few weeks before the attack. Furthermore, according to Radio ZET, the attacker's will was found in his car.In the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg on Friday, December 20, five people lost their lives, including a 9-year-old boy. Yesterday, the German media reported that the number of injured had risen to 235, with more injured people continuing to report to hospitals. An investigation into the attack is ongoing. The perpetrator is a doctor of psychology, Taleb Abdul Jawad, a 50-year-old born in Saudi Arabia who has lived in Germany since 2006. Jawad is currently in investigative custody, as he was apprehended immediately after the attack. Now, new information about him is coming to light. It turns out that the doctor had been attracting the attention of authorities for some time. THE WILL IN TALEB A.'S CAR The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt, Tamara Zieschang, quoted the dpa agency as saying that the German police had contacted Jawad as early as September 2023. He was interrogated at one of the stations in the Salzland district (Saxony-Anhalt). The second interrogation took place a few weeks before the attack, in October 2023, this time at the perpetrator's workplace. Weekly "Spiegel" reports that investigators found his will in the perpetrator's car (he rented a BMW over a week before the attack). In it, he wrote that after his death, his entire estate should go to the German Red Cross. According to the newspaper, the text contained no political messages. Initially a work migrant who had a scholarship from the Saudi government to study medicine in Germany, it is claimed al-Abdulmohsen later became critical of his home nation and denounced Islam. As now revealed by German newspaper Die Welt, even before al-Abdulmohsen was granted asylum status and given leave to remain in the country he exhibited erratic behaivour, and was convicted for disturbing the peace” over apparent terroristic threats made in 2013. It is reported al-Abdulmohsen had been in the process of getting his certifications to practice medicine in Germany and was applying for professional examination at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Medical Association, but upon being told he needed to submit additional documents, he handed the organisation a deadline to comply with his demands and a threat. Court documents unearthed from his 2014 prosecution states he told the medical association that “something bad with international significance” would happen to them, adding: “Have you seen the pictures from Boston? Things like that happen here too”. This apparent threat was made by al-Abdulmohsen just days after the Boston Marathon Bombing and, consequently, the police were called. In court, al-Abdulmohsen insisted he had been under a lot of pressure because of his situation with Saudi Arabia, and claimed he only meant to threaten negative newspaper stories about the organisation, not an actual terrorist attack. Further, he accused the medical association staff of assuming he meant an actual terror attack because they were prejudiced against Arabs. The judge rejected this and said, it was reported, al-Abdulmohsen had an “above-average command of the German language and had an extensive vocabulary” and consequently would well understand how his words would be taken by others. The then-trainee doctor rejected the finding of the court, refused to accept responsibility, and even tried to take the legal officials involved to court, it is stated. Remarkably despite this run-in with the law, al-Abdulmohsen was later granted a licence to practice medicine as a psychiatrist in Germany, and was granted asylum status in 2016. A growing catalogue of other signs to the authorities is now being established, including people encountering him professionally finding his work as a psychiatrist so slapdash they questioned whether he really had medical qualifications, dubbing him “Dr Google”. An even clearer instance of failure by the German state to prevent the death of five last week was that while the Christmas market was secured against attacks, the single vehicle route into the area — maintained for the access of emergency vehicles — hadn’t been blocked by having a police truck parked across it, as intended.
While on the phone with the chamber, “he threatened an act that, I quote, ‘people would remember and would attract international attention’,” Pegel said, adding that he had pointed to the 2013 Boston marathon bombing, an Islamist attack that had killed three people. Police investigated Abdulmohsen as a result but concluded he wasn’t a threat because he didn’t show any sign of Islamist extremism, Pegel said. In late 2013, a court in Rostock fined him for disturbing the peace by threatening a crime. The following year, he visited a local administration in Stralsund to request financial support and, when denied, warned an employee he would commit “an act that would draw international attention,” Pegel said. He also threatened to commit suicide. Given his existing conviction, he was interviewed by police, who warned him to stand down from future threats, Pegel said. In 2015, he complained about his conviction in a letter to the state legal administration and in a call to the chancellery in Berlin, Pegel said. In his complaints, he insulted the judge who had pronounced his verdict, and threatened to acquire a gun, he said. Related: Magdeburg: 2024-12-23 Good Morning Magdeburg: 2024-12-23 Olaf Scholz and socialist politicians insulted by angry crowd in Magdeburg Magdeburg: 2024-12-22 [German] Police warned a year ago that Xmas market maniac was planning an atrocity - did nothing more than take screenshots of his twisted online threats | |||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I think the Germans need to watch Gunsmoke. |
| Posted by: Angesing and Tenille4707 2024-12-24 13:44 |
| #3 They need to work on warning shot placement. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2024-12-24 09:29 |
| #2 Disgusting Jew-haters! |
| Posted by: Injun the Wicked3081 2024-12-24 07:37 |
| #1 More are jailed over anti-Jewish riot in Muslim Russian region |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-12-24 03:33 |