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Saudi Doctor Arrested For Deadly Car Attack In German Market-2 Dead, 68 Injured
Magdeburg Christmas Market Chaos After Two Vehicles Smash Into Festive Shoppers
Several people have been injured after at least one car smashed into a Christmas market in Germany, with video reportedly taken from the scene showing numerous police vehicles at the scene PLUS Panic Caused by a 10,000-Strong March Chanting Allahu Akbar Through a Christmas Market AP 20 DEC 2024 https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/2K...34cd41f54eb232 https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/xU...30b2d7aefdf60b A car drove into a group of people at a Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg on Friday evening. Police have taken the driver into custody, local government sources told dpa. Nothing was initially known whether people were killed or injured. It was also not immediately clear whether the incident was deliberate or intentional. The Christmas market, located near the city hall, is teeming with ambulances and paramedics, as videos posted on social media showed. Syrians Chant Islamist Slogans at German Christmas Markets https://i0.wp.com/hyetert.org/wp-con...80%2C551&ssl=1 https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012...isable=upscale Masses of Syrians celebrating the ousting of President Bashar Assad have been seen at Christmas markets across Germany over the past week. Videos posted online show thousands marching through the festive venues waving Syrian flags and chanting ?Allahu Akbar? and ?Bashar is gone, Syria is free!? According to German media, groups of Syrian opposition supporters have taken over Christmas markets throughout the country since the previous weekend. They were spotted in Stuttgart, Dresden, Baden-W?rttemberg, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Konstanz and several other cities. While the demonstrations have been peaceful, some slogans being chanted have sparked worry among security experts. For instance, the phrase ?Allahu Akbar,? which roughly translates into ?God is Great,? is a standard greeting for Muslims but, in certain contexts, is also associated with extreme Islamism. |
Saudi Doctor Arrested For Deadly Car Attack In German Market-2 Dead, 68 Injured
Smashed-up BMW Used in German Christmas Market Attack in Magdeburg That Left Two Dead And 68 Injured
Car Driven at High Speed Into Crowd of Revellers at German Christmas Market on Friday, Killing Two People, as Police arrest Saudi Arabian Doctor Over Deadly Attack. MailOnline 21 DEC 2024 https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12...4745834167.jpg https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12...4745058955.jpg https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12...4745066962.jpg https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12...4746047551.jpg https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12...4745113481.jpg https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12...4745445128.jpg Footage taken in the minutes after the crash, which happened at around 7pm, showed Taleb A. being arrested at gunpoint by German police https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12...4745447398.jpg https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12...4745590361.jpg https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12...4745587568.jpg Video footage too graphic to share appears to show the dark car careening into the dense crowd, leaving dozens of people lying on the floor. The suspect is a 50-year-old medical doctor from Saudi Arabia living in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, said regional premier Reiner Haseloff, speaking at a scene cordoned off and guarded by police commandos. We have arrested the perpetrator, a man from Saudi Arabia, a doctor who has been in Germany since 2006, he told reporters, calling the attack a catastrophe for the city and the country. He is an anti-Islam, AfD-supporting doctor who arrived in Germany in 2006 as a refugee from Saudi Arabia, MailOnline can reveal. Taleb A. is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy from the Saudi Arabian city of Hofuf who has lived in Bernburg, Germany, since 2006 and has been recognised as a refugee since 2016. Analysis of his social media reveals he is a huge proponent of AfD, the far-right anti-immigration party that is currently polling in second ahead of the upcoming snap election, and is a harsh critic of Islam. The accounts bio reads: Saudi Military Opposition. Germany chases female Saudi asylum seekers, inside and outside Germany, to destroy their lives. Germany wants to islamize Europe. Posts include retweets of graphic videos, including one of a young Muslim woman purportedly being stoned to death 'because she had an affair with a young man outside of marriage.' The black BMW barrelled through the crowd at high speed just after 6pm (UK time) when the market was filled with revellers. Video footage showed the moment the driver was arrested as police holding handguns shouted lie down, hands on your back, don't move at the bearded man with glasses, who was lying on the ground next to the heavily damaged car. Fridays deadly carnage recalled a 2016 jihadist attack in which a Tunisian man driving a lorry killed 12 people in a Christmas market in Berlin, the countrys worst such attack. A 13th victim died later having suffered serious injuries in the assault, claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. The Saudi government expressed solidarity with the German people and the families of the victims, in a statement on social media platform X, and 'affirmed its rejection of violence https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12...4745442667.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNxEeZas8Z0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZhPQFpkjec . |
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