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Germans Tying Themselves in Knots Over Magdeburg Killings

By Jim Taft
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Good gravy goodness.

Nobody was happy to see Olaf Scholz’s face at the scene of the terrorist attack.

The hoots and howls continued as the ex-chancellor continued into the heart of the devastated Christmas Market.

Scholz has yet to formulate an answer for how his government missed so many warnings about the Saudi Arabian who perpetrated Friday’s unspeakable carnage.

After the deadly terror attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, the capital of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, it has emerged that German officials received several warnings about the alleged perpetrator over the past few years but failed to act on them.

…Over the weekend it has become clear that Taleb A – a Saudi national who came to Germany as an asylum seeker in 2006 and worked as a psychiatrist – was well known in Germany as a supposed critic of Islam. His account on X had more than 10,000 followers.

In 2013, Taleb A had reportedly allegedly threatened to commit a terror attack in a communication with the Chamber of Physicians of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The police searched his apartment but found no indication of an imminent attack. He was later fined for “threatening to commit a crime”. Despite that, he was granted asylum in Germany in 2016.

After the incident in Magdeburg it was claimed by former colleagues that Taleb A had some time ago been banned from working at one hospital after he allegedly prescribed patients potentially lethal medication.

In August 2023, he reportedly posted on X: “A purely philosophical question: Would you resent me for indiscriminately killing twenty Germans because Germany is working against the Saudi opposition?”

Users on X who ran afoul of the terrorist reported his threatening conversations to the German Polizei, and for whatever reason, be it conversations in English or general disinterest, the German authorities never acted on any of the tips they received.

In fact, when prosecutors in Cologne received threats directly from Taleb A himself, the German police reacted with…a stern letter.

…After a threatening e-mail to the Prosecutor’s Office in Cologne in 2023, Taleb A received a letter from police telling him “to stop writing such letters”.

As much as it seems sentiment is united against Scholz, it is divided by the usual schism of left-leaners versus everyone else being ‘far-right.’

There have been peaceful marches through the site of the market by tens of thousands of Germans, who called for deportations in the wake of the atrocity. They are, of course, being characterized as right-wing extremists and using the tragedy for political purposes.

Maybe they’re simply tired of being lied to. Maybe they’re simply tired of politicians calling them the racists when warnings go ignored, and people who should be deported aren’t, and Germans are the ones who die.

Maybe they’ve seen enough to see through the calls to reject hate for what they are – calls to accept the current situation as their new normal. Accept this chaos and fear as the new Germany.

Maybe they’re tired of it.

…It will be up to the courts to establish the causes of the Christmas-market car attack. But there are pressing questions from the public about the deteriorating security situation in Germany. The Magdeburg attack is only the latest in a succession of deadly attacks that have taken place this year. In the summer, three people were killed and several injured in an Islamist terror attack at a festival in Solingen. By targeting social gatherings, from Christmas markets to summer festivals, terrorists are attacking German public life itself. As the anger towards Scholz in Magdeburg shows, many people are not willing to accept this becoming normal.

People are fed up with hearing politicians respond to the murder of their fellow citizens with empty talk about ‘standing up to hate’. They feel that the authorities no longer have the will or the capacity to keep the public safe. After the Solingen attack, it was revealed that the perpetrator should have been deported long ago. In this latest case, there are now reports that the authorities had been warned, by the Saudi government and others, of the potential threat posed by Abdulmohsen.

…Despite Friday’s horror, many Germans have continued filling up Christmas markets across the county in the days since. They are not going to forego this much-loved tradition out of fear of terrorism, which is a welcome sign of resilience. But with federal elections coming up in February, the government’s repeated failure to keep the public safe will weigh heavily on voters’ minds. The Magdeburg attack could yet have a seismic impact on German politics.

That seismic shock is what has Scholz, his opponent Fredrich Merz and the rest of the establishment quaking in their boots, and desperate to both paint the Saudi who did this as a ‘right-wing/AfD supporter’ – AfD says “Oh, he ain’t ours”…

…There have been reports that Taleb A. had sympathized with the AfD via an X account run under his name.

According to the AfD, the alleged perpetrator was not a party member. “We can rule out that the perpetrator in Magdeburg was a member of the AfD,” a spokesman for party leader Alice Weidel told the Rheinische Post. There was also never an application for membership.

 …and get their Leftist troops out to kumbayah around the maypole in the center of the square.

NO HATE HERE!

…Hundreds of people formed a human chain around the Alter Markt in Magdeburg on Monday evening in a gesture of remembrance for the victims of Friday night’s attack on a Christmas market held on the same square.

The initiative, named “Don’t Give Hate a Chance,” was also intended to be a stand against right-wing extremists seeking to exploit the attack for political gain.

Organizers said thousands took part, with people of all ages standing together in dense crowds. Holding candles, they applauded and thanked the emergency services — the police officers who had apprehended the perpetrator and the medical teams who had treated the over 200 wounded.

The German papers have to be very circumspect in their reporting because one goes to jail for disagreeing with the government in Germany.

So, the Saudi was a right-wing Jew lover, and everyone now calling for deportations is a hater who is politicizing a tragedy.

You will be hard-pressed to find anything in the German news that is to the contrary.

There now appears to be a fair amount of Germans no longer willing to swallow the government line. They have answered AfD’s call to march by the thousands instead of the few hundred peace, love, and ‘can’t we all just get along’ advocates on the other side of town.

Germans are looking to the populist party as the only avenue, perhaps their last best hope, to address what concerns them.

…But the sombre silence outside the city’s cathedral, where candles, flowers and toys had been laid out for victims and survivors, was broken when a man shouted out: “Scholz, do politics for the people!”

“Sit down at the table with the AfD,” yelled Kevin Baecker, a 36-year-old entrepreneur, referring to the far-right Alternative for Germany party that is especially strong in the country’s ex-communist east.

…German politics have long been torn over the flashpoint issues of immigration and security. Ex-chancellor Angela Merkel’s welcome culture for refugees almost a decade ago fuelled the rise of the AfD, which now polls near 20 percent.

Baecker let his anger explode when he saw the Social Democrat Scholz and the leader of the conservative opposition, Friedrich Merz, who came to show their respect to the residents of Magdeburg, a town of around 250,000 people southwest of the capital.

Germans remember.

…The Magdeburg attack came eight years and a day after a jihadist attack in Berlin in which a Tunisian man committed to the Islamic State group rammed a truck through the capital’s Christmas market, claiming 13 lives.

“I had a very bad night,” said Magdeburg resident Fred Koehler, a 63-year-old caretaker, “because it is Germans being crushed again.“

GERMANS BEING CRUSHED AGAIN

It sounds as if they may finally have had enough.



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