Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who is set to join President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, has attacked the German government over Friday night’s car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg and Chancellor Olaf Scholz over his role in leading the European country. The capability of has been questioned. Series of extremist incidents.
A Saudi Arabian doctor drove his BMW car into a crowd of revelers during the Christmas holiday rush hour, killing at least five people and injuring nearly 70 others. Authorities said yesterday that he had been living in Germany since 2006, but did not share further details.
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When German media identified the suspect as 50-year-old Taleb Abdulmohsen, a self-proclaimed “Saudi atheist” with permanent residence status, multiple reports suggested that he not only held critical views against Islam, but It also believed that Germany had a generous attitude towards refugees from Muslim countries. ,
Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Fraser said his views were “Islamophobic”. Scholz condemned the attack as “horrific and insane” and took sharp digs at Musk for allegedly ignoring repeated warnings.
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A local prosecutor said the motive behind the attack was unclear, but a possible factor could be “their dissatisfaction with the treatment of Saudi refugees in Germany”.
‘Suicidal sympathy by Germany’
Musk, who yesterday called him an “incompetent fool” and called for his resignation, continued his attack against the German government over reports that it has refused to extradite the suspect to Saudi Arabia, citing human rights concerns. Had given.
The world’s richest man said, “Yes, he was clearly a lunatic who should never have been allowed to enter Germany and should have been extradited when Saudi Arabia requested it.” Suicidal sympathy by.”
Responding to reports that Abdulmohsin is a Saudi fugitive granted asylum by Germany, he said anyone who refused to extradite the “killer” deserved severe punishment.
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He responded to another user, “That guy is clearly an undiagnosed psychopath who should not have been allowed into Germany and should have been extradited when Saudi Arabia requested it.”
Musk also sparked controversy after describing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as the country’s protector – which is seen as interference in another country’s politics. Opinion polls put the AfD in second place, believing it could thwart a centre-right or centre-left majority, but the German mainstream is unlikely to seek support from the AfD at the national level.
The German government said yesterday that it had taken note of Elon Musk’s comments, but did not share any comments.
Germany has been hit by several suspected Islamic knife attacks in the past few months. In August three people were killed in a stabbing by a Syrian suspect during a street festival in Solingen. In June, a policeman was killed in a knife attack by an Afghan man.
