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Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen
طالب العبد المحسن
BornTaleb bin Jawad bin Hussein Al-Abdulmohsen
(1974-11-05) November 5, 1974 (age 50)
Hufuf, Saudi Arabia
NationalitySaudi Arabian
OccupationPsychiatrist
Years active2006–2024
Known for

Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen (Arabic: طالب العبدالمحسن; born November 5, 1974) is a Saudi Arabian psychiatrist known for his extreme anti-Islam and far-right activism. Abdulmohsen is the alleged perpetrator of the 2024 Magdeburg car attack, which killed five people and injured over 200.

Early life and education

Talib Al-Abdulmohsen was born in Hufuf, Saudi Arabia. He hailed from a Shiite family in the largely Shiite Al-Ahsa Governorate.

He pursued medical studies and specialized in psychiatry. In 2006, he relocated to Germany to further his career and applied for political asylum.

2024 Magdeburg car attack

Main article: 2024 Magdeburg car attack

On December 20, 2024, Al-Abdulmohsen allegedly drove a vehicle into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least five people, including a child, and injuring over 200 others. He was arrested at the scene.

Views

In media appearances, Abdulmohsen presented himself as an ex-Muslim activist against Islam. In 2019, Abdulmohsen gave interviews to the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in which he was presented as an escape/migration helper. In these he says about himself: "I am the most aggressive critic of Islam in history. There is no good Islam". Der Spiegel reported on him in the same year; that he would - through his web forum wearesaudis.net and X (formerly known as Twitter) – help others to escape from Saudi Arabia to Germany. Also in the same year, Abuldmohsen appeared on the BBC showcasing his website intended to help asylum seeking apostates, "especially from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region". The Saudi monarchy is said to have warned German security authorities about Abdulmosen at least three times.

Abdulmohsen shared pro-Israel content on the Internet: on his X profile, he published posts which claimed that "Parts of Syria were lucky enough to join Israel", retweeting a post made by Benjamin Netanyahu which celebrated the fall of Assad. He also expressed that "Arabs must pretend the annexation of Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and eventually Lebanon too, to Israel".

On X, Abdulmohsen posted an AR-15–style rifle with a US-flag as a profile picture and conspiracy theories such as "Germany is persecuting Saudi asylum seekers inside and outside Germany in order to destroy their lives" and "Germany wants to islamize Europe." Several well-known officials of the German far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) and its right-wing extremist youth organization Junge Alternative followed his X account. Furthermore, he expressed his sympathy on X for the AfD and dreamed of a joint project with the far-right party: an academy for ex-Muslims. He also made a website that tried to help ex-Muslims gain asylum to other countries and he considers himself an atheist as of 2019.

In a video interview that appeared on the anti-Islamic US blog, the RAIR Foundation, eight days before the attack, Abdulmohsen spreads theories for over 45 minutes that the German state is conducting a "covert secret operation" to "hunt and destroy the lives" of Saudi ex-Muslims around the world, but at the same time Syrian jihadists are receiving asylum in Germany. In the interview he describes himself as leftist. Abdulmohsen also shared similar right-wing ideological content, including content from German politician Alice Weidel of AfD, Alex Jones, and Elon Musk. He also shared a video by German right-wing influencer Naomi Seibt. In an X post from December 5, 2024, Abdulmohsen declared that Angela Merkel deserved the death penalty for "her secret criminal project of Islamizing Europe".

A few minutes before the attack, he posted more videos on his social media profile on X. In one of them, Al-Abdulmohsen said: "Another reason why I hold German citizens responsible for the persecution I experience in Germany is the story of a USB stick stolen from my mailbox." He also said: "The police themselves are the criminals. In this case, I hold the German nation, I hold the German citizens responsible for what is in store for me'.

Legal issues and political asylum

According to India Today, Al-Abdulmohsen is wanted by Saudi Arabia on charges related to terrorism and human trafficking, specifically allegations of facilitating the trafficking of individuals from Saudi Arabia and Gulf states to the European Union. Despite Saudi Arabia's extradition request, Germany granted him political asylum in 2006, citing concerns over his safety and rights if he was returned to Saudi Arabia. The German government refused to extradite him, citing a lack of due process in Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, a Saudi source told Reuters that Saudi Arabia had warned Germany about the attacker after he posted extremist views on his X account threatening peace and security.

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