{"id":199819,"date":"2024-12-21T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/christmas-market-suspect-may-have-been-dissatisfied-with-treatment-of-saudi-refugees-in-germany-heres-what-we-know\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T16:31:09","slug":"christmas-market-suspect-may-have-been-dissatisfied-with-treatment-of-saudi-refugees-in-germany-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/christmas-market-suspect-may-have-been-dissatisfied-with-treatment-of-saudi-refugees-in-germany-heres-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas market suspect may have been ‘dissatisfied with treatment of Saudi refugees in Germany’: Here’s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The suspect in the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg appeared to be dissatisfied with the treatment of Saudi refugees in Germany, a prosecutor has said.<\/p>\n

On Friday evening, a car was driven at speed into visiting crowds<\/strong><\/a> in the central German city.<\/p>\n

Five people have died so far – including a nine-year-old child and four adults – with at least 200 more injured, according to authorities. Of those injured, 41 are said to be seriously hurt.<\/p>\n

The suspect – who was arrested at the scene<\/strong><\/a> – was a 50-year-old Saudi citizen who worked as a doctor and arrived in Germany in 2006, premier of Saxony-Anhalt state Reiner Haseloff said.<\/p>\n

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Police director Tom-Oliver Langhans told a news conference on Saturday the attack had left the city “very alarmed”.<\/p>\n

He added that officers arrested the suspect three minutes after the first emergency calls were made from the market.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Horst Walter Nopens said the motive behind the attack appeared to be “dissatisfaction with the treatment of refugees from Saudi Arabia and how they are being treated in Germany”.<\/p>\n

German interior minister Nancy Faeser has said the suspect was Islamophobic.<\/p>\n

The suspect has described himself as an “ex-Muslim” who sought asylum after receiving death threats for denouncing his faith.<\/p>\n

His social media pages, which he posted on in the hours leading up to the attack, promote anti-Islam views – and claim Germany is allowing the “Islamisation of Europe”.<\/p>\n

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The suspect, who says he works as a psychiatrist at a government hospital, has appeared in various media reports about his efforts to help other former Muslims flee Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations.<\/p>\n

Tamara Zieschang, the state’s interior minister, told reporters the suspect had been practising medicine in Bernburg, around 25 miles south of Magdeburg.<\/p>\n

He has a website that he told the BBC in 2019 has helped “hundreds of people” seek asylum overseas.<\/p>\n

The homepage reads: “My advice: do not seek asylum in Germany.”<\/p>\n

In videos with voiceovers in English, he claims he is being pursued by German police, who “sent someone carrying a knife to steal a USB stick from my mailbox”.<\/p>\n

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He claims they “cited Germany as a shining example of media censorship”, and adds: “My experience in Germany leaves no doubt – they actually censor victims.”<\/p>\n

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German terrorist expert Professor Peter Neumann described the suspect’s profile as unusual.<\/p>\n

He says he “loves the AfD [Alternative for Germany] and wants to punish Germany for tolerance towards Islamists”, the director of King’s College London’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation wrote on X.<\/p>\n

Professor Neumann said: “After 25 years in this ‘business’ you think nothing could surprise you anymore… that really wasn’t on my radar.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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