Orbán attributes the Magdeburg attack to the “transformation” due to “massive immigration” in Europe

MADRID Dec. 21 () –

The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, has blamed European migration policy as one of the factors behind the deliberate attack perpetrated this Friday at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg that has cost the lives of five people and injured another 200. .

“It seems almost programmed,” Orbán lamented this Saturday at a press conference, where he lamented a “tragic” incident that is inseparable, in his opinion, “from the way in which Western Europe has been transformed, that is, with immigration “massive.”

“The lesson is that Hungary must be protected from this type of transformation,” said the Hungarian Prime Minister, an exponent of Euroscepticism, in comments collected by ‘Magyar Hirlap’.

Hours earlier, Orbán conveyed his condolences to the families and relatives of the victims, as well as to the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, for “the atrocious terrorist attack committed at the Christmas market” in a message published on his account on the social network X.

Germany’s Interior Minister, Nancy Faeser, confirmed this Saturday that the perpetrator of the attack is “clearly Islamophobic” in her first statements about the individual, arrested shortly after the event.

Unofficial information from German security sources identifies the driver as Taleb Al Abdulmohsen, a Saudi citizen, 50 years old, a 50-year-old specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy with a permanent residence permit because he was recognized as a refugee in Germany in 2016.

According to the DPA agency, approximately a year ago a kind of warning was issued about the man to the German authorities for his radical tendency, presenting himself as an activist critical of Islam and who defines himself as an “ex-Muslim.”