US EditionSaudi officials warned German police over suspect in Magdeburg Christmas market attack: Reuters
- Saudi officials warned German police about a suspect related to the Magdeburg Christmas market attack.
- German police were alerted about a potential threat concerning the suspect's activities.
- The warning was issued ahead of the Christmas market in Magdeburg.
- The attack has raised issues of security for public events.
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In the attack this Friday in Magdeburg, Germany, a massive hit on a Christmas market, five people were killed.The secret services of Saudi Arabia, their country of origin, warned the German authorities about the dangerousness of their author, the 50-year-old doctor Taleb Jawad Al-Abdulmohsen, who is in detention.It has been known that as early as 2013, this person had threatened an attack, on that occasion against the Medical College of Mecklenb…
Germany sought answers on Monday about possible security lapses after a man drove a car into a Christmas market on Friday, killing at least five people and raising fresh security and immigration concerns ahead of snap elections. The possible motive for the arrested suspect, a 50-year-old Saudi psychiatrist with a history of anti-Islamic rhetoric and sympathy for the far-right Alternative for Germany party, remains unknown, Reuters reports. On th…
Saudi Arabia sent a request this summer for the extradition of a Saudi suspect in a deadly attack on a Christmas market in Germany.
Saudi Arabia had asked for ‘extradition’ of Germany Christmas market attack suspect: Report
Saudi Arabia had earlier asked for the extradition of the Saudi suspect who drove into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing five people and injuring over 200, news agency AFP reported on Monday (December 23) citing a source close to the government. "There was (an extradition) request," the source told AFP. Although they did not specify the reason for the request.
Saudi Arabia has repeatedly warned Germany of the man who on Friday killed five people in an attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg. Without reaction. The motive is still unclear: why did a militant critic of Islam from Saudi Arabia take something that resembles something that an Islamist terrorist organization could have carried out?
A government source says Saudi Arabia has warned Germany "several times" about the nine men in Madgeburg.
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