The German government faced growing questions on Sunday about whether more could have been done to prevent the Christmas market car-ramming attack that killed five people and injured over 200.<\/p>\n
The Saudi suspect, 50-year-old psychiatrist and anti-Islam activist Taleb al-Abdulmohsen had made online death threats against German citizens and had a history of quarrelling with state authorities.<\/p>\n
News magazine Der Spiegel, citing security sources, said the Saudi secret service had warned Germany\u2019s spy agency BND a year ago about a tweet in which Abdulmohsen threatened Germany would pay a \u201cprice\u201d for its treatment of Saudi refugees.<\/p>\n
And in August Abdulmohsen wrote on social media: \u201cIs there a path to justice in Germany without blowing up a German embassy or randomly slaughtering German citizens?\u2026 If anyone knows it, please let me know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Die Welt daily reported, also citing security sources, that German state and federal police had carried out a \u201crisk assessment\u201d on Abdulmohsen last year but concluded that he posed \u201cno specific danger\u201d.<\/p>\n
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has condemned the \u201cterrible, insane\u201d attack on Friday in the city of Magdeburg and made a call for national unity amid high political tensions as Germany heads towards February 23 elections.<\/p>\n
He said it was important \u201cthat we stick together, that we link arms, that it is not hatred that determines our coexistence but the fact that we are a community that seeks a common future\u201d.<\/p>\n
But as German media dug into Abdulmohsen\u2019s past, and investigators gave away little, criticism rained down from the far-right and far-left parties already bitterly opposed to the Scholz government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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