German State Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff announced that the death toll in the attack in the city of Magdeburg, where a driver, Talib A., a 50-year-old doctor born in Saudi Arabia who has been living in Germany since 2006 and is an Islamaphobic supporter of Zionism, plowed into dozens of people at a Christmas market, has risen to 5 and the number of injured to 205.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who visited the area, said that support would be provided to those affected by the attack.
According to Der Spiegel, the attacker supports the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, while the FAZ newspaper reported that he described himself as an “anti-Islam activist” in an interview in 2019.
“I assure you that if Germany wants war, we will do it. If Germany wants to kill us, we will slaughter them, we will die or we will proudly go to jail. Since we have exhausted all peaceful means, we have encountered more crimes by the police, state security, the prosecutor’s office, the judiciary and the Ministry of the Interior. Peace is of no use to them,” said the attacker on social media months ago, revealed the Bild newspaper. Meanwhile, the British Reuters news agency wrote that the Saudi Arabian government had previously warned German authorities about the attacker and his extremist views.
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