Christmas market attack in Germany tonight😥 article linked

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/dec/20/germany-christmas-market-madgeburg
I have attended many Christmas markets over the years. They are so crowded especially at the moment as German children finished school for the Christmas holidays. Frightening, my prayers are with all the victim's 🙏

Can I correct that to mentally-ill immigrant terrorism? Maybe we should try and address the problem of mentally-ill immigrants?

It's doesn't really make sense in that regard as why would you attack a Christmas market? He has apparently said anti Islam far right stuff online in the past but then also apparently once posted some pro Hammas stuff... honestly it's much more likely that this wasn't that logical or even a terrorist act. He maybe just wanted to hurt people and that was a crowded place. Not all these people who do this type of stuff have some big clear manifesto.
People jumped to conclusions.. I don't think there necessarily is any real conclusion other than male violence

a nut case,

physician heal thyself

An anti Islamic, far right activist who attacks a Christmas Market. Even Orwell couldn't have written this.

From the latest conference

Officials are still working to clarify the motive, but the prosecutor mentions it's linked to "dissatisfaction with the treatment of refugees from Saudi Arabia in Germany

At the end of the news conference, the prosecutor also said that it is not yet known whether this was a terror attack

Yep why not a mosque? Why a Christian tradition?

Definitely mentally ill. Anti-islam, so ploughs into the non-anti-Islam Christians! Awful and ridiculous.

Definitely mentally ill.

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Strange how they're mentally ill, but manage to never attack a mosque

Odd that

Same with that lad in Southport. 3 small girls, he didn't walk into a pub in Southport at 11oclock and have a go at a group of hard blokes from Toxteth did he???

No.

Utter cowards.

everyone is currently thinking, if he was really "far right" and anti muslim why did he not attack a mosque? It's grotesque.

Hopefully he will be extradited to his home country and receive the death penalty for terrorism there. Nasty arrogant man.

Strange how they're mentally ill, but manage to never attack a mosque

Did you miss Christchurch? That was only 5 years ago and 51 people were killed and over 80 injured.

Is everyone thinking that? Just you I think! Unless there are other racists/anti-Muslims lurking. I'm certainly not. I'm thinking that a person with serious issues has committed a horrific crime, and I'm thinking more of the poor families affected.

By the way, I work in a very diverse team and SO many Muslims actually love the Christmas markets!! It's genuinely true. They love trying the different food, looking at the light displays and having fun socialising with their friends. Same as the rest of you. So Christmas markets are popular with all religions and atheists!

How long are people treated like immigrants for? Or second generation like the youth in Southport? 10 years? 20? Their whole lives? When are you finally considered British for example, Mumsnetters? What has any of this got to do with the events in Germany?

Allegedly he attacked the Christians because he was annoyed with them for letting all the Muslims in!!

No, actually you are incorrect, and I know that because of my background and experience, so extremely confident that I'm right here. "Everyone" is obviously a saying. Funny also as you have no idea what religion, race or whatnot I am, but that's due to your own botty /batty prejudice.

You may not be thinking it but people with inclusive outlook with actual roots in middle eastern cultures and religions are thinking exactly that. Why? Cos it' bloody illogical. You however may just be too blinkered with your ideological goggles or just be on a mission.

Good post in x said he had clearly pyscotic paranoid ramblings he's just very ill. He had threatened to hurt people a few years ago.

@Thatcastlethere

"Not everything is terrorism. Just because he's brown skinned..."

I couldn't agree more that skin colour has absolutely nothing to do with this terrorist attack - after all when was the last time you heard of a Hindu or Sikh terrorist attack in the UK.

Seems he didn't like his fellow countrymen too much. Bloody awful.

German authorities haven’t as yet said this is definitely a terrorist attack, have they? There was some talk in the immediate aftermath that assumed that, but todays comments have left the question more open

This

Resentment of the treatment of refugees? Motivation to kill lots of people! He moved to Germany a long time ago yet didn't appear to feel part of Germany, otherwise why kill so navy Germans!

A complex case .

Yep , the psychiatric assessment & mental health card will be pulled . If he was genuinely anti Islam a mosque or Muslim event would have been targeted...
Christians across the world are being targeted at the moment. This is another example.

'Hi, my name is Taleb. I am from Saudi Arabia. I am an activist. I created a website to help people seeking asylum, especially from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region. I use basically WhatsApp, Twitter, Telegram,” he was heard saying.'

Helping people get to Germany then kills Germans! Why. Germany gave him sanctuary.

https://www.opindia.com/2024/12/bbc-interviewed-maddeburg-terrorist-taleb-al-abdulmohsen-activist-asylum-seeker/