Terrorist Taleb al-Abdulmohsen killed 6 people at the Christmas market, 300 were injured: Trial against Magdeburg attacker has begun
Terrorist Taleb al-Abdulmohsen killed 6 people at the Christmas market, 300 were injured: Trial against Magdeburg attacker has begun
Almost eleven months after the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market with six dead and over 300 injured, the trial against the attacker has begun under heavy security. The prosecution accuses 51-year-old Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, among other things, of completed murder in six cases and attempted murder of another 338 people.
The trial is one of the largest in post-war history. The Magdeburg Regional Court has initially scheduled just under 50 days of hearings until March 12, 2026.
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen was taken to the courthouse in a police helicopter.
Heavily armed officers secure the accused.
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen in the courtroom. His defense attorneys complained that he is sitting in a glass cage for security reasons.
Heavily armed officers secure the accused.
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen in the courtroom. His defense attorneys complained that he is sitting in a glass cage for security reasons.
The defendant from Saudi Arabia was brought to the trial by helicopter. Masked judicial officials led the 51-year-old with a longer gray mottled beard into the courtroom, where he sits in a specially secured glass box.
He worked as a doctor in Saxony-Anhalt and had raced through the Christmas market in a 340 hp rental car shortly before Christmas. According to the indictment, he accelerated to just under 50 kilometers per hour.
Prosecution trivializes motive as "personal frustration"In the trial,
the indictment was first read out. Taleb al-Abdulmohsen drove the car, which weighed more than two tons, into the crowd on December 20, 2024, said senior prosecutor Matthias Böttcher. Taleb al-Abdulmohsen watched the reading outwardly motionless.
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on file 105 timesOut of a "supposedly personal frustration", the accused was concerned with capturing "as large a number of people as possible" and thus "gaining the attention he wanted", Böttcher explained. According to the Naumburg Public Prosecutor's Office, the indictment comprises 206 pages. After two hours, everyone was read out.
Before the reading of the indictment, the session had already been interrupted. The background to the break were two motions by the defense. In it, the defendant's lawyer criticized above all that his client had to sit in a glass box during the trial for security reasons. This is disproportionate.
Judge: Glass box to protect
the defendant
The trial before the district court will take place in a specially built hall under strict security precautions. The defendant was brought to the trial by helicopter from the Burg prison. Masked judicial officials led the 51-year-old into the courtroom and guarded him in the box.
The presiding judge Dirk Sternberg justified the security measures, among other things, by saying that the defendant should also be protected from possible acts of revenge.
Reading the chronology makes you angry
So there Reading the chronology makes you angry
is now a chronology of 105 events or facts in which the Arab attacker was involved before his crime, in six federal states. Processes. Facts. But all the findings, Faeser claims, were not available before the crime. So they rested quietly in the files, without the German state taking any action. Apparently, Germany has entrusted internal security to an autopilot without software.
What are the events and facts involved? Reading the chronology makes you angry. The man from Saudi Arabia, who wanted to kill as many Germans as possible in December 2024, threatened the Medical Association with a terrorist attack as early as April 2013. He was dissatisfied that his license as a specialist in psychiatry was not progressing. In September 2015, he threatened the Chancellery. He was prepared to shoot two judges who had not treated him correctly.
Stay tuned – we will keep you informed about further developments in this case.
Stay tuned – we will keep you informed about further developments in this case.
Author: Editorial Team
Source: REUTERS / Alternative Media
