The head of the Federal Criminal Office (BKA), Holger Münch, said in an interview with ZDF that the BKA received warning about man with Saudi Arabia in November 2023.
– Proceedings have also been initiated here. State police Saxony-Anhalt also took appropriate investigative measures, he noted.
Attack in Magdeburg. The German services had warnings
Münch emphasized that it was a man “he was not known for aggressive behavior”. However, as he announced, it will have to be verified again to check whether the authorities have not omitted anything. – We are dealing here with a completely unusual pattern we must now analyze it calmly – announced the head of BKA.
Suspicious Taleb Abdul Djawad comes from Saudi Arabia and arrived at German in 2006. He has recently made accusations against German authorities on social media and in interviews, some of which have been worded in vague terms.
He accused the government of, among other things, not doing enough to fight Islamism. After going public with his support for Saudi women fleeing their country, he later wrote on his website in English and Arabic: “My advice: Don't ask for asylum in Germany” – wrote the dpa agency.
Germany. The police announced the ages of the victims of the attack in Magdeburg
On Friday evening, a car driven by Taleb Abdul Javad drove at high speed into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, eastern Germany. Five people died, a over 200 were injured.
German police said on Sunday that the victims were nine-year-old boy and four women aged 45, 52, 67 and 75. All the ladies – the Bild daily reported on Sunday – came from the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the capital of which is Magdeburg. One of them celebrated her 52nd birthday a week before the tragedy, the newspaper added.
The daily also wrote that the nine-year-old visited the fair with his family, with whom he moved to a neighboring family in 2024 Lower Saxony.
On Saturday evening, the day after the attack, the inhabitants of Magdeburg They honored the victims with a minute of silence, laying flowers and lighting candles A 50-year-old woman from Saudi Arabia. People gathered in the square in the city center about a thousand people – reported the German media.