Which agencies had information on Saudi Taleb A. that spread death the day before yesterday in his Christmas market, since when and how did they manage them? The more the details of the life and activities of the 50-year-old psychiatrist in Germany become known, the more they increase
Federal Home Secretary Nancy Fesser announced today that she has called for a further investigation to “clarify all the background information, while looking in detail at the clues that may have existed from the past and how they were followed up by the relevant authorities”.
Indicatively, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) stated that through a channel on a social network. “This information, like any other, was taken seriously,” assured BAMF, clarifying at the same time that the Service does not have investigative powers and therefore referred the person who provided the information to the competent authorities, as is done in these cases .
Research for omissions
The head of the Anti-Crime Agency (BKA) Holger Münch again spoke of a “completely atypical pattern”, referring to information that reached his agency from Saudi Arabia in November 2023. “Police in Saxony-Anhalt then took appropriate investigative measures. But the issue was confusing.
Taleb A. he had various contacts with the authorities, was known for insults and threats, but not for violent acts,” said Mr. Münch on ZDF. However, Der Spiegel magazine reported that the Saudi had threatened in his posts on the “X” platform that “Germany will pay the price for the treatment of refugees coming from Saudi Arabia.” All this, however, stressed the leader of the BKA, must be re-checked, in order to establish whether the authorities had omitted something. “We are dealing with a completely non-standard pattern and we will have to analyze it very carefully,” he added.
Asylum questions
Questions are also raised by the fact that although Taleb A. had already concerned the authorities in 2013 when he was convicted of threats to commit crimes, in 2016 the conviction did not affect his request for political asylum, which was even accepted within four months.
Later, according to the magazine Der Spiegel, he was again convicted of abusing emergency calls: While in a Berlin police station to make a complaint, he called the emergency number of the Fire Department and spoke unintelligibly. In fact, the day before the attack on the Magdeburg market, he had to appear in court for this case.
According to a report by ARD, the 50-year-old psychiatrist had been “for years” in conflict with the Central Council of Ex-Muslims and its affiliated organization “Secular Refugee Aid”.
He claimed he would save Europe
The president of the organization Mina Ahadi stated that Taleb A. he constantly criticized the direction of the Central Council regarding the organization of refugee aid and slandered specific activists. In 2023, he even lost a legal dispute with them for this.
At the appeal hearing, inside the courtroom, he angrily declared that he himself would save Europe from Islamization, since the German courts could not do it. An employee of the organization had filed a lawsuit against him because of his posts in “X”, in which, among other things, he described the police as “guides of Islamism in Germany”.
The Saudi case will concern the Interior Committee and the Control Committee of the Bundestag on December 30. “Two days after the terrible crime, more and more details about the perpetrator are coming to light, which do not fit the pattern, but still raise questions for the security authorities at federal and state level in Saxony-Anhalt,” said vice-president of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Dirk Wiese. In his view, Interior Secretary Nancy Fesser and the presidents of the Federal Constitutional Protection Agency and the Federal Immigration and Refugee Agency should be called, among others.
The danger of far-right terrorism is returning to Europe
But how can someone be an opponent of the pro-immigrant policy and be an immigrant himself? The internationalist, Sotiris Roussos, spoke at “Evilxes Now”.
“We have what scientists have called hybrid radicalization, that is, the radicalization of a person, placing him in extremist positions that take various elements from various cultures and from various ways of reaction and ideology.
Here we would say that we have a Saudi who has rejected Islam and gone to the extreme right, and he himself believes that they should accelerate the pace of the conflict between the West and Islam. There is this current in the extreme right. Thus, they believe that the West will be freed. Obviously we have such an example here, of a man who has gone into hybrid radicalization and who wanted to sharpen the conflict between a European society that is European and Islam.
This will be exploited by the extreme right sides in Europe, saying that immigrants will bring us many problems. The quality that interests them is the immigrant, especially from Islamic countries. This is the main issue they will raise.”
