The public prosecutor's office of Magdeburg in Germany announced on Sunday the detention of a 50-year-old man named Taleb Al Abdulmohsen on the charge of killing five people, including a 9-year-old boy, on Friday afternoon. The 50-year-old man was brought before a judge on Saturday evening, police said. The judge at the district court in Magdeburg ordered custody on five counts of murder, multiple attempted murders and multiple counts of grievous bodily harm. The suspected perpetrator was sent to the correctional institution.
Senior Public Prosecutor Horst Walter Nopens spoke about the attack saying that. "We don't know yet if it was a terrorist attack," he said. The suspect, a doctor, has been living in Germany since 2006 and was not known to authorities as an Islamist. On the contrary, he is said to have declared himself critical of radical Islam on numerous occasions in recent years. He had supported dissidents from Saudi Arabia and criticized and threatened Germany over its policies towards dissidents.
It is reported that on Friday evening, the author from Saudi Arabia drove to the Christmas market in the center of Magdeburg. Five people were killed and 200 people were injured, about 40 of them in a serious or very serious condition. According to the police, the victims were a nine-year-old boy and four women between the ages of 45 and 75.
The international media emphasize that the German police knew him and that several times he had received notifications from the authorities of Saudi Arabia about the radicalism of the 50-year-old. He was described as a lone wolf, but not an outsider.
Meanwhile, evil German extremists have protested with anti-Islamic slogans. According to an initial estimate by the police, about 1,000 participants gathered in a central square in the capital of the state of Saxony-Anhalt. Among other things, one could see a banner with the word "emigration" and the so-called flags of the homeland. Calls like "We are the people" were heard. A "Bild" journalist reports on aggressive right-wing extremists and hooligans. A speech was given by the right-wing extremist Thorsten Heise - a politician from the "Heimat" party, formerly the NPD.
Thousands of Magdeburg residents remember the victims at the funeral and memorial services in the cathedral and on the cathedral square. At 19:04, exactly 24 hours after the crime, all the church bells in the city rang. (A2 Televizion)
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