Saudi Arabia has warned the FRG three times about the possibility of a terrorist attack

Saudi Arabian authorities have warned German security authorities three times that the driver of the car that crashed into people in Magdeburg, Taleb A., could commit a terrorist attack. This was reported by Spiegel magazine on December 21.

It is specified that the specific content of the warnings is unknown. Information about such a warning was also confirmed by Reuters, citing its own source.

According to Spiegel, in December 2023, the police of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt already received a complaint against Taleb A. because of a comment in the social network X (former Twitter) that "Germany will pay a certain price for the persecution of refugees from Saudi Arabia," but then the police did not notice specific threats.

For its part, Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry has publicly condemned what happened at a Christmas market in Magdeburg. In a statement on the department's page in X said that the country rejects violence and "expresses its sincere condolences to the families of the victims, the government and the people of Germany, wishing a speedy recovery to the injured".

What happened in Magdeburg: a car drove into the crowd at the Christmas fair

There are dead and wounded

The previous evening, a car crashed into a crowd of people at a fair in Magdeburg. According to the latest reports, four people were killed, including a young child, and 205 others were injured. The representative of the German government in the state of Saxony-Anhalt Matthias Schuppe called what happened a terrorist attack.

Soon it became known about the detention of the suspect Taleb A. - a native of Saudi Arabia born in 1974. The police specified that he most likely acted alone. Information about the presence of an explosive device in his car was not confirmed. According to the newspaper Bild, the man may have been under the influence of drugs.

Scholz, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Polish President Andrzej Duda and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban expressed their condolences to the families of the victims. The Russian Embassy in Germany is clarifying information about the presence of Russian citizens among the injured.