The perpetrator of the Magdeburg attack abandoned Islam and was attracted to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)

The mass attack in Magdeburg (eastern Germany) could have had an Islamophobic motivation – and not an Islamist motivation – according to several German media outlets based on what they have been able to gather about the life of the alleged perpetrator. Saudi doctor Taleb A.

The life of Dr. Taleb A, as shown in media such as the magazine Der Spiegel or the diary Frankfurter Rundchaugoes through the abandonment of the Muslim faith, activism in favor of Saudi women and leads to open sympathies for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and theories about an alleged plan to Islamize the Euro Cup, concocted according to him by former chancellor Angela Merkel. .

Taleb A arrived in Germany in 2006 as a student and received asylum in July 2016. after being threatened with death for having turned away from Islam. He lived and worked as a psychiatrist in Bernburg, a small town of 32,000 inhabitants on the banks of the Saale River between Magdeburg and Halle.

As an activist, she informed and advised Saudi women about the possibilities of fleeing their country and had a website with information about the German asylum system.

In an interview he gave in 2009 to the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau He said many Saudi women came to him for protection after being raped by the man they depended on. In that interview she also pointed out that the German asylum system was for these women a path to freedom, according to Efe.

From a certain moment his distancing from Islam became an open rejection of German immigration policy. Last November he published a message on his X account with “four demands from the Saudi opposition” and said that Germany had to protect its borders from illegal migration.

He accused Merkel of having orchestrated a plan to Islamize Europe with her open borders policy. In other social media messages he showed open sympathy for the AfD because he said it was the only party that fought Islam in Germany. Taleb A wanted to found an academy for ex-Muslims in Germany together with the AfD.according to the digital edition of Der Spiegel.

Just a week ago an interview of his was broadcast through an Islamophobic blog in the US in which claimed that the German state had a secret operation to persecute ex-Saudi Muslims around the world and at the same time granted asylum to Syrian jihadists. In another message from X, which he later deleted, he announced revenge, according to the newspaper Die Welt.

In recent weeks, according to the local newspaper Magdeburger ZeitungTaleb A had missed work due to medical leave.