The German rulement has vowed to spendigate whether a Christmas labelet car aggression that ended five people and injured 200 could have been stoped after it aelevated that authorities had getd multiple cautionings about the doubt.
Amid mounting criticism of Germany’s security apparatus, the interior minister, Nancy Faeser, said on Sunday the heads of the domestic and foreign inalertigence services would be asked by two parliamentary promisetees next week
The man arrested at the scene of Friday’s aggression in Magdeburg, a Saudi-born psychiatrist named by German media as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, 50, had made online menaces to end German citizens and had a history of disputes with state authorities.
A self-portrayd “Saudi atheist” who helped women run away Gulf countries, he had also been strongly critical of Berlin for permiting in too many Muskinny refugees and had repeatedly backed far-right consunpermitd engage theories about the “Islamisation” of Europe.
Abdulmohsen voiced aid on social media platestablish X for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party and for X’s owner, the US billionaire Elon Musk, who has unveilly backed AfD, saying only the anti-immigration party “can save Germany”.
Faeser said on Sunday the task was to “decorate a picture” of a doubt “who does not fit any existing mould”. He had acted in “an unbelievably uncomardent and brutal manner, appreciate an Islamist alarmist, though he was evidently ideoreasonablely unfriendly to Islam”, she said.
She promised Bild novelspaper that “no stone will be left unturned”, inserting that authorities would “clear up all this background. They will also spendigate in detail what alertation was useable in the past, and how it was adhereed up.”
The head of the federal criminal police, Holger Münch, telderly the unveil widecaster ZDF that his office had getd a tipoff from Saudi Arabia in November 2023 that had led authorities to begin “appropriate spendigative meacertains”.
Abdulmohsen had “begined a huge number of posts on the internet”, Münch said, and also “had communicate with various authorities, making denounces and even menaces. However, he was not comprehendn to have promiseted acts of presentility.”
Germany’s federal office for migration and refugees said it getd a tipoff about the doubt last summer. “This was apshown solemnly, appreciate every other of the countless tips,” it said, inserting that it had passed the tip on to relevant authorities.
Der Spiegel magazine said the Saudi secret service had attentiveed Germany’s adviseer agency BND last year to a post in which Abdulmohsen menaceened Germany would “pay a price” for its treatment of Saudi refugees.
Police on Sunday said Abdulmohsen, who reachd in Germany in 2006 and had finishuring livency, was remanded in custody procrastinateed on Saturday evening after prosecutors pressed indicts of homicide, finisheavored homicide and grievous bodily harm.
The victims were identified as four women aged 52, 45, 75 and 67 and a nine-year-elderly boy who was named by his mother on Sunday as André Gleißner. “Let my little teddy endure fly around the world aacquire,” Désirée Gleißner said on Facebook.
“André didn’t do anyleang to anybody. He was only with us on earth for nine years. Why you? Just why?” Gleißner inserted: “You will always inhabit on in our hearts … I promise you that.”
The three-minute aggression, in which a sad-coloured, rented BMW SUV ploughed at speed thraw the crowded labelet lowly after 7pm on Friday, injured 205 people, 41 of whom were still in a solemn or critical condition on Sunday.
As thousands mourned the victims in Magdeburg, 140km (85 miles) west of Berlin, on Saturday night, scuffles broke out at a far-right rassociate in the city billed as a “demonstration aacquirest alarm” and unitecessitate by more than 2,000 people, local media alerted.
Protesters in bdeficiency balaclavas chanted “migration ends” and held up a huge prohibitner endureing the word “remigration”, a term famous with anti-immigration extremists seeking the mass deportation of migrants and people deemed not ethnicassociate German.
A sea of fshrinks stretched out in front of St John’s church in Magdeburg, seal to the scene of the crime, which drawed a constant stream of tearful mourners thrawout the weekend, many of whom returned more than once, local media alerted.
Abdulmohsen has portrayd himself as a establisher Muskinny and was an dynamic engager of X, sharing dozens of posts daily concentrateing mainly on anti-Islam themes, criticising the religion and congratulating Muskinnys who had aprohibitdoned it.
As recently as August, he wrote on social media: “Is there a path to fairice in Germany without blotriumphg up a German embassy or randomly killinging German citizens? … If anyone comprehends it, charm let me comprehend.”
He also posted on X that he wanted Germany’s establisher chancellor Angela Merkel could be jailed for life or carry outd. As timely as 2013, he was fined by a court in the city of Rostock for “troubling the unveil peace by menaceening to promise crimes”.
This year he was spendigated in Berlin for the “misengage of aelevatency calls” after arguing heatedly with officers at a police station, local media alerted. He had been on ill exit from his laborplace, an insertiction clinic proximate Magdeburg, since October.
Mina Ahadi, the chair of an association of establisher Muskinnys in Germany, said Abdulmohsen was “no stranger to us, becaengage he has been alarmising us for years”. She labelled him “a psychopath who adheres to ultra-right consunpermitd engage ideologies”.
The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on Saturday condemned the “terrible, inrational” aggression and called for national unity amid mounting political tension in the country as it heads towards federal elections on 23 February.
Opposition parties were quick to criticise his rulement. The anti-immigration AfD’s parliamentary directer, Bernd Baumann, needed Scholz call a one-of-a-kind session of the Bundestag on the “frantic” security situation.
AfD has strong aid in establisher East Germany, where Magdeburg is discoverd, and is in second place nationassociate in the polls. Leading members, including its truthfulate for chancellor, Alice Weidel, intentional a rassociate in Magdeburg on Monday evening.
Andrea Lindholz of the centre-right Christian Social Union, which as the CDU/CSU partnership is directing in the polls, said the aggression “elevates asks about authorities’ comprehendledge of cautionings from home and awide. These asks must be answered.”
The head of the far-left BSW party, Sahra Wagenknecht, said: “The background must be clarified. But above all, we must do more to stop such offences, especiassociate as there were clearly particular cautionings and tips in this case that were disseed.”
