{"id":2382736,"date":"2024-12-22T09:32:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T14:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/german-authorities-got-tipoffs-last-year-about-suspect-in-attack-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T09:33:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T14:33:15","slug":"german-authorities-got-tipoffs-last-year-about-suspect-in-attack-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/german-authorities-got-tipoffs-last-year-about-suspect-in-attack-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"German authorities got tipoffs last year about suspect in attack &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgerman-authorities-got-tipoffs-last-year-about-suspect-in-attack-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2382736&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>German authorities \u200dhave revealed that they received\u200c tips\u2063 last year regarding a suspect involved in a deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-capitol-police-officer-dead-following-car-attack-another-injured-suspect-dead\/\" title=\"One Capitol Police Officer Dead Following Car Attack, Another Injured; Suspect Dead\">car attack<\/a> \u200cat a Christmas \u2064market\u200c in Magdeburg, which\u2062 resulted in the deaths of five people. The suspect, a\u200d Saudi doctor who had been\u2063 living in Germany since 2006 and held permanent \u2063residency, has not been publicly named due to\u2062 privacy regulations. however, reports from some German media have identified him as Taleb A. Further details about the incident and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-announces-co-heads-who-will-take-over-in-zuckers-absence\/\" title=\"CNN Announces \u2018Co-Heads\u2019 Who Will Take Over In Zucker\u2019s Absence\">ongoing investigations continue<\/a> to emerge.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">German authorities received tipoffs last year about suspect in Christmas market attack<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1917744\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) &mdash;<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/germany\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">German authorities said<\/a> they received tipoffs last year about the suspect in a car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg as more details emerged on Sunday about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3268085\/what-we-know-about-the-german-christmas-market-attack-that-left-five-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">five people killed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Authorities have identified&nbsp;the suspect&nbsp;as a Saudi doctor who arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Germany\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Germany<\/a> in 2006 and had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-u-s-expat-edward-snowden-granted-russian-citizenship\/\" title=\"BREAKING: U.S. Expat Edward Snowden Granted Russian Citizenship\">received permanent residency<\/a>. Police haven&rsquo;t publicly named the suspect, in line with privacy rules, but some German news outlets have identified him as Taleb A. and reported that he was a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3244202\/trump-impoundment-federal-bureaucracy-trigger-supreme-court-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRUMP&rsquo;S VOW TO USE &lsquo;IMPOUNDMENT&rsquo; SETS UP SUPREME COURT CLASH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authorities say he does not fit the usual profile of perpetrators of extremist attacks. He described himself as an ex-Muslim who was highly critical of Islam and in many posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">social media expressed support<\/a> for the far-right anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party.<\/p>\n<p>He is being held in custody as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/authorities-investigate-explosions-in-pittsburgh\/\" title=\"Authorities investigate explosions in Pittsburgh\">authorities investigate<\/a> him.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Holger M&uuml;nch, said in an interview on the German broadcaster ZDF on Saturday that his office received a tipoff from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Saudi-Arabia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Saudi Arabia<\/a> in November 2023, which led authorities to launch &ldquo;appropriate investigative measures.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3239765\/defense-contractors-embracing-dei-trump-second-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>DEFENSE CONTRACTORS EMBRACING DEI COULD BE TARGET OF TRUMP&rsquo;S SECOND TERM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The man also published a huge number of posts on the internet. He also had contact with various authorities, made insults and even threats. However, he was not known to have committed acts of violence,&rdquo; said M&uuml;nch, whose office is the German equivalent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/FBI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FBI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the warnings, however, proved to be very unspecific.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees also said Saturday on X that it received a tipoff about the suspect in the late summer of last year.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This was taken seriously, like every other of the numerous tips,&rdquo; the office said. But it also noted that it is not an investigative authority and that it referred the information to the responsible authorities. It gave no other details.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Council of Ex-Muslims said in a statement that the suspect had &ldquo;terrorized&rdquo; them for years as it expressed shock at the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He apparently shared beliefs from the far-right spectrum of the AfD and believed in a large-scale conspiracy aimed at Islamizing Germany. His delusional ideas went so far that he assumed that even organizations critical of Islamism were part of the Islamist conspiracy,&rdquo; said the statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group&rsquo;s chairwoman, Mina Ahadi, said in the same statement: &ldquo;At first we suspected that he might be a mole in the Islamist movement. But now I think he is a psychopath who adheres to ultra-right conspiracy ideologies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Police in Magdeburg, the capital of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, said Sunday that those who died were four women aged 45, 52, 67, and 75, as well as a 9-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1917744\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1917744\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German authorities received tips last year about a Saudi doctor suspect in the Magdeburg Christmas market attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2634,"featured_media":2382737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Germany-Christmas-market.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4002,5992,3946,47244,32076],"class_list":["post-2382736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-attack","tag-authorities","tag-germany","tag-tipoffs","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Germany-Christmas-market.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382740,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382736\/revisions\/2382740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}