The Psychiatrist at the Christmas Market: Taleb al-Abdulmohsen
December 20, 2024. A rented BMW tears through Magdeburg’s Christmas market. Sixty-four seconds. Six dead — including a nine-year-old boy — and more than three hundred injured. The driver is Taleb al-Abdulmohsen: Saudi-born psychiatrist, ex-Muslim activist, and a man German authorities had been warned about for years.
Host Alexander Lawson traces how al-Abdulmohsen arrived in Germany in 2006, built an online following, invoked the Boston Marathon in a 2013 threat, clashed with courts and refugee groups, and planned the attack that ended in a life sentence with particular gravity of guilt in…
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