Christmas Market Attack: Mass Deportation Of Immigrants Feared

Immigrants of other nations in Germany are now endangered after the recent Christmas market attack there which claimed the lives of five people including that of a baby.

The attack has since been attributed to a Saudi doctor Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, 50, who rammed his SUV into a packed market in the town of Magdeburg, Germans have trooped to the streets demanding mass deportation of immigrants.

The issue is already piling pressure on the government of Prime Minister Angela Merkel, especially against the backdrop of its open door policy,

Aside the dead, about 200 people remain injured in the aftermath of the attack.

Around 700 demonstrators gathered in a central square in the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt yesterday, with people holding a banner with the word ‘Remigration Now’ and so-called homeland flags, reports the Mail referencing the German tabloid Bild.

It said right-wing extremists and hooligans, marched through Magdeburg shouting protesting the Christmas Market Attack: ‘Anyone who doesn’t love Germany should leave Germany’, ‘Migration kills’ and ‘We must take back our cities, our villages and our homeland’.

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Some of the demonstrators reportedly wore masked and were aggressive, resulting in minor scuffles with police.

Social media accounts falsely alleged al-Abdulmohsen was an Islamist terrorist shortly after the attack, but the German interior minister later identified the suspect as being Islamophobic himself.

Police arrested an ‘unstable’ 50-year-old Saudi doctor identified as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen after he allegedly rammed his SUV into a packed market in the town of Magdeburg

A harsh critic of Germany’s past welcome too many Muslim migrants, al-Abdulmohsen wrote on the platform X that he wished ex-chancellor Angela Merkel could be jailed for life or executed.

In 2015, Merkel implemented an ‘open door’ policy, which allow over a million asylum seekers to cross the border into Germany.

At last night’s protest in Magdeburg, a known neo-Nazi called Thorsten Heise reportedly stirred up the crowd by yelling: ‘Deport, deport, deport’ and ‘Resistance’.

Experts have now warned that right-wing groups could attempt to exploit the tragic incident for their own ends.

Matthias Quent, Professor of Sociology at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, told EuroNews: ‘The region in general, eastern Germany, is a hotspot of far-right mobilisations.

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‘And we are facing election campaigns until the federal elections in February. And so this is not just a critical time because of Christmas and the trust that gets destroyed by such an attack but, also, regarding questions of disinformation and polarisation and the spread of hate that will and could happen over these kinds of attacks now.’

The exiled Saudi attacker had praised far-Right politicians for combating the ‘Islamisation‘ of Europe and pledged to take ‘revenge’ over harassment of female refugees.

Al-Abdulmohsen had voiced support for Elon Musk, Tommy Robinson and Alternative for Germany, the far-right anti-immigration party, trying to build connections to far-right organisations in Germany and the UK.

And as the surging AfD party seeks to rally support in the run-up to Germany’s snap federal election, the chair pointedly asked ‘When will this madness end?’

Tempers are strained after it was revealed police were warned about the ‘unstable’ suspect in September last year, but did nothing more than take screenshots of his twisted online threats.

Local outlet Die Welt reported that German state and federal police had carried out a ‘risk assessment’ on al-Abdulmohsen last year but concluded that he posed ‘no specific danger’, the report in the Mail stated.

How he then turned around to carry out the Christmas Market Attack beats the imagination of many.

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“Chancellor Olaf Scholz has condemned the ‘terrible, insane’ attack and made a call for national unity amid high political tensions as Germany heads towards February 23 elections.

But as German media dug into al-Abdulmohsen’s past, and investigators gave away little, criticism has rained down from the far-right and far-left parties already bitterly opposed to the Scholz government”.

-courtesy Mail on Sunday