Christmas market killer 'is a closet jihadist and undercover Islamist', AfD claim - as it's revealed he left behind a will and expected to die in 'suicide mission'
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The Christmas market killer 'is a closet jihadist and undercover Islamist', the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has claimed. Alice Weidel, co-leader of the AfD, spoke at a mass rally outside the cathedral in Magdeburg yesterday, near where Saudi doctor Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, 50, smashed his rented SUV into crowd at the Christmas market on Friday.
![[Police arrested an 'unstable' 50-year-old Saudi doctor identified as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen after he allegedly rammed his SUV into a packed market in the town of Magdeburg]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/24/09/93396573-14223905-Police_arrested_an_unstable_50_year_old_Saudi_doctor_identified_-a-6_1735034277870.jpg)
Nine-year-old André Gleißner was killed and at least 235 people were injured in the horrifying rampage, dozens of whom are still in serious condition, according to authorities. Weidel embraced the conspiracy theory that the attacker had been a closet jihadist, describing the killing as 'a crime beyond the imagination of everyone here; a crime by an Islamist full of hatred against everything that makes us human, against us as people, against us as Germans, against us as Christians'.
![[Police officers stand as people attend a commemoration organised by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party at the cathedral square]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/24/09/93435587-14223905-Police_officers_stand_as_people_attend_a_commemoration_organised-a-4_1735034259482.jpg)
AfD figures and supporters have spread an unsubstantiated theory that Abdulmohsen was a covert Islamist who concealed his convictions under an ancient strand of doctrine called taqiyyah, which maintains that Muslims can hide their beliefs in non-Islamic societies.
![[The Saudi suspect, psychiatrist and anti-Islam activist al-Abdulmohsen, had made online death threats against German citizens and had a history of quarrelling with state authorities]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/24/09/93396575-14223905-The_Saudi_suspect_psychiatrist_and_anti_Islam_activist_al_Abdulm-a-10_1735034319548.jpg)
Police are still puzzling over why Abdulmohsen attacked the market, with the prosecutor indicating that the medic's grievance about how Germany was treating Saudi dissident asylum seekers could be a possible motive. Abdulmohsen - who was arrested beside the battered vehicle - has voiced anti-Islam views, anger at German immigration officials including former Chancellor Angela Merkel and support for far-right narratives on the 'Islamisation' of Europe.
![[Nine-year-old André Gleißner (pictured) was killed during Friday night's devastating attack]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/24/09/93398643-14223905-Nine_year_old_Andr_Glei_ner_pictured_was_killed_during_Friday_ni-a-13_1735034392136.jpg)
