Summary
A car ploughed into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least two people, including a child, and injuring 68 others, 15 critically, in what authorities are treating as a terror attack.
The suspect, identified as Taleb A., a Saudi Arabian psychiatrist living in Germany since 2006, was arrested at the scene. He allegedly drove a rented BMW through the crowded market, targeting families and children.
The attack raised concerns about security at Christmas markets despite preventive measures like bollards. German and French leaders expressed shock and condolences.
This incident follows heightened vigilance since a 2016 truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 13 people.
Just awful and tragic. All those families =(
The attacker is a doctor from a nearby city (Bernburg) living in Germany since 2006.
This is really bad. The driver is from Saudi Arabia. AfD was already leading for the upcoming election, and now it’s going to be a sweep. Fascism is back in control of Germany and this time America has already fallen. Get ready for interesting times.
And the worst part is: The murderer achieves every goal they sought to.
Assuming an islamist motive, which is highly likely based on past attacks, there will be a significant increase in anti-Muslim discrimination. And islamists despise nothing more than Muslims successfully integrating into another society. After all, which cult does NOT prey upon vulnerable people and who is more vulnerable than someone experiencing constant discrimination?
ETA:
Turns out an islamist motive is highly unlikely, after other commenters pointed to an article that found the murderer shared anti-Muslim, far-right content online. Despite the tragedy, I’m genuinely relieved. This could’ve had devastating effects on the upcoming election.
"Man drives into crowd. We are unable to confirm if he’s Muslim. (But he does look like it, doesn’t he?).
Hmm
I think Germany is having issues.
You’re right, Taleb A. from Saudi Arabia sounds like your regular run of the mill European cultural christian…
I just think it’s neat that when they’re brown they’re consistently matched with their religion, but only certain people will associate white nationalists and Nazis with Christianity.
Because Nazis don’t do this shit in the name of religion, that’s where the difference lies
The West absolutely has a fascist white Christian terrorist problem, that doesn’t change anything I said
Library democracy wrings its hands and lets extremist ideologies fester, both through being too weak and placating to act at home and too weak to rein in abuses against Muslim nations abroad. The result is fascism in one form or another is elected to cut out the cancer. Sadly this is often done by cutting deep into the moderate communities tangentially related to terrorist extremists. Ugly the whole thing.
Library democracy wrings its hands and lets extremist ideologies fester, both through being too weak and placating to act at home and too weak to rein in abuses against Muslim nations abroad.
Not sure what a “library democracy” is supposed to be, but the rest of that sentence does not make sense in this context: the attacker is a rightwing nutjob who liked AfD and Musk posts, not a djihadist or anything like that.
“liberal democracy wrings its hands”. Liberal democracy does not take seriously the fact that a lot of its population prefer either far far slower cultural integration or a more homogenous culture. Or both.
The rise of Christian nationalist terrorism is the result.
Global trade is preferred by capitalists, governments and urban elites. So the struggle takes on a class quality. It’s the working class who place a different degree of value on what they perceived to be their culture. And it’s the working class that tend to be on the receiving end of immigrations less pleasant side effects.
(That’s not meant to imply immigration is a bad thing, I don’t think it is, done properly)
The result is the resurgence of fascism.
