A 50-year-old doctor who has been in Germany since 2006 – that is the alleged bomber of Magdeburg.
Taleb A., the alleged bomber of Magdeburg, shared his thoughts quite openly on the internet. Almost all of his posts were critical of Islam. He also spoke freely about his views in the media. Taken together, these posts paint the picture of a man who was obsessed with fighting Islam.
According to his own statements in several interviews,
Taleb A. came to Germany from Saudi Arabia in 2006. He trained as a psychotherapist and later worked in this profession. He only applied for asylum a few years later. In an interview, he stated that he was threatened in his home country because of publications critical of Islam.
In the meantime, according to the German authorities, he has been granted a permanent residence permit. The 50-year-old was last known to live in the small town of Bernburg in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is not far from Magdeburg, where he drove a rental car into a crowd at the Christmas market on Friday evening.
The act is reminiscent of Islamist attacks in Europe in the recent past. However, he publicly presented himself as an “ex-Muslim”. In 2019, he said in an interview with the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”:
“I am the most aggressive critic of Islam in history.” If people don't believe him, they should ask the Arabs.
“Do not apply for asylum in Germany”
Taleb A. was interviewed in the German media in connection with the publicized escape attempts of Saudi Arabian women.
He ran a website that helped his fellow countrymen, mostly women, leave Saudi Arabia. In the course of these activities, he seems to have become increasingly alienated from the country that offered him protection.
At the top of the homepage of his website is the sentence: “My advice: don't apply for asylum in Germany.”
A few days before the attack, an online portal critical of Islam in the United States published an interview with him. In it,
he makes serious accusations against the German authorities. He claims that the German state persecutes non-Muslim asylum seekers from Saudi Arabia. He compares the authorities to the Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany.
At the same time, he says, Germany almost always approves asylum applications from people from Syria, “including many Islamists.” He claimed in the interview that there was a larger government plan behind this. In the description of his profile on X, he says: “Germany wants to Islamize Europe.”
The exact motives of the man are still unknown, and the authorities are currently investigating at full speed. Initial reports assumed an Islamist background based on the circumstances of the crime.
During the course of the day, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser are expected at the scene.
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