A man in his fifties who crashed into a German Christmas market was convicted in 2013: “He threatened an attack that would attract international attention”

Taleb Al Abdulmohsen, the man who killed five and injured 200 on Friday evening by crashing into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, was convicted in the past after threatening an attack. This is what the German newspaper ‘Der Spiegel’ writes. The 50-year-old Saudi doctor is said to have said in 2013 that he wanted to carry out an attack that would “attract international attention”.

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