Who is the suspect behind the German Christmas market attack?
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Posts about how Germany wants to ‘islamise Europe,’ how Tesla’s Elon Musk should be arrested and Tommy Robinson censored – this is what the suspect in the deadly Christmas market attack posted about on X. Taleb A. has been identified as the man who was arrested after a BMW slammed into a crowd in the city of Magdeburg, killing five people, including a toddler.
![[A woman lays down a cuddly toy at the memorial site at St. John's Church in Magdeburg, Germany, Saturday Dec. 21, 2024, the morning after a driver drove into a group of people at Magdeburg's Christmas market. (Jan Woitas/dpa via AP)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_233910583-d9db.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Footage showed his arrest at gunpoint by German police moments after the attack on Friday evening. So, who is the 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia? Metro details what we know about him. Several German media outlets named the man as Taleb A., withholding his last name in line with privacy laws.
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In the UK, he has been identified as the man behind the wearesaudis.net website. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. BILD reported that he has been living in Germany since 2006 and has a permanent residence permit.
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After successfully seeking asylum, he created the page as an information resource for others who had fled Saudi Arabia like him. Based on a 2019 report by the BBC, in which he is interviewed about the website, the man escaped his country as he was incapable of expressing his atheism safely.
It was also reported that Taleb A. is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy. There are still no answers as to what caused Taleb A. to drive into a crowd the eastern city of Magdeburg. Describing himself as a former Muslim, he shared dozens of tweets and retweets daily focusing on anti-Islam themes.
