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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on December 20, 2024, 09:23:34 PM

Title: At least two dead and 68 injured after car driven into crowd at...
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 20, 2024, 09:23:34 PM
...German Christmas market

Peace on earth...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1j08p44w9kt
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Post by: Maeght on December 20, 2024, 09:40:51 PM
...German Christmas market

Peace on earth...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1j08p44w9kt

Awful.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on December 21, 2024, 10:29:27 AM
Good news for AfD though.  :(
Title: Re: At least two dead and 68 injured after car driven into crowd at...
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 21, 2024, 10:30:21 AM
Good news for AfD though.  :(
With elections in February
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Post by: Roses on December 21, 2024, 10:40:00 AM
Shocking and then some! :o
Title: Re: At least two dead and 68 injured after car driven into crowd at...
Post by: ekim on December 21, 2024, 11:49:12 AM
Some background to the perpetrator..... https://www.euronews.com/2024/12/21/who-is-the-suspect-behind-magdeburg-christmas-market-attack
Title: Re: At least two dead and 68 injured after car driven into crowd at...
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 21, 2024, 11:52:06 AM
Some background to the perpetrator..... https://www.euronews.com/2024/12/21/who-is-the-suspect-behind-magdeburg-christmas-market-attack
And because he's an immigrant from Saudi Arabia, it's still going to be good news for the AfD
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Post by: The Accountant, OBE, KC on December 21, 2024, 04:21:54 PM
...German Christmas market

Peace on earth...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1j08p44w9kt
Horrible. Very sad news.

My kids were in Germany at Christmas markets a few days ago.
Title: Re: At least two dead and 68 injured after car driven into crowd at...
Post by: The Accountant, OBE, KC on December 21, 2024, 04:29:46 PM
And because he's an immigrant from Saudi Arabia, it's still going to be good news for the AfD
Sounds so weird - he hates Islam and supports AfD...so he thinks mowing down people at a Christmas market is publicity for AfD and by being a Saudi who mows down innocent people, he will get Europeans to hate Saudis and support AfD?

German terrorism expert Peter Neumann remarked on the unusual profile of the suspect. “After 25 years in this ‘business’, you think nothing could surprise you anymore. But a 50-year-old Saudi ex-Muslim living in East Germany, loves the AfD and wants to punish Germany for its tolerance towards Islamists — that wasn’t on my radar,” said Neumann, director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence at King’s College in London.
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Post by: Nearly Sane on December 21, 2024, 04:52:12 PM
Sounds so weird - he hates Islam and supports AfD...so he thinks mowing down people at a Christmas market is publicity for AfD and by being a Saudi who mows down innocent people, he will get Europeans to hate Saudis and support AfD?

German terrorism expert Peter Neumann remarked on the unusual profile of the suspect. “After 25 years in this ‘business’, you think nothing could surprise you anymore. But a 50-year-old Saudi ex-Muslim living in East Germany, loves the AfD and wants to punish Germany for its tolerance towards Islamists — that wasn’t on my radar,” said Neumann, director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence at King’s College in London.
Agree, it's hard to begin to understand. But then perhaps we 'understand' attacks that we think make sense too easily.

Utterly bleak.
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Post by: ekim on December 22, 2024, 10:43:44 AM
Agree, it's hard to begin to understand.
Well, he is a psychologist. :o
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Post by: Harrowby Hall on December 22, 2024, 07:40:13 PM
Well, he is a psychologist. :o

No he is not. He is a psychiatrist.
Title: Re: At least two dead and 68 injured after car driven into crowd at...
Post by: ekim on December 23, 2024, 09:34:14 AM
No he is not. He is a psychiatrist.
Even more difficult to understand how he turns from psychotherapy to (alleged) indiscriminate murderer.