On Friday evening, December 21, a driver rammed a car into a large crowd of revellers at a Christmas market in central Germany, killing 5 people and injuring more than 200. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that nearly 40 of them “are so seriously injured that we must be very worried about them.”
As the news of the attack broke, Musk called for the resignation of the German chancellor Olaf Scholz. “Scholz should resign immediately,” Musk posted on X, adding: “Incompetent fool.”
Elon Musk shared the Twitter profile of the German Christmas market attacker identified as Taleb Abdul Jawad. “Important thread to understand the magnitude of failure by the German government,” wrote Musk as he shared a long thread on the attacker. The long Twitter thread shared by Musk claims that how in early 2006: ‘Taleb Abdulmohsen’ fled Saudi Arabia after being accused of rape and implicated in serious crimes.
The 10-tweets-long thread goes on to add how the German government ignored/rejected the extradition requests of the Saudi Arabia government.
Musk wrote in another tweet, “Yeah, he was obviously a lunatic who should never have been allowed to enter Germany and should have been extradited when Saudi Arabia made the request. Suicidal empathy by the German government.”
The Tesla CEO also shared a post that claimed that a “Saudi girl living in #Germany reported to the German police in September 2023 about the danger of a man called Talib Abd AlMohsen, who was planning to run people over with his car. The German police ignored the report and acted in a stupid bureaucratic manner,” it said.
He added that whoever in Germany failed to listen to the extradition request of the German government needs to “punished severely”. “Wow, this is insane. Whoever refused to extradite a murderer deserves to be punished severely!”
Terror attacks in Germany
Germany has suffered a string of extremist attacks in recent years, including a knife attack that killed three people and wounded eight at a festival in the western city of Solingen in August.
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.
According to an AFP report, “verified bystander footage distributed by the German news agency dpa showed the suspect’s arrest at a tram stop in the middle of the road. A nearby police officer pointing a handgun at the man shouted at him as he lay prone, his head arched up slightly. Other officers swarmed around the suspect and took him into custody.”