Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, 50, rammed his SUV into a packed market in the town of Magdeburg on Friday night, killing four women aged 45 to 75 and nine-year-old André Gleißner as well as injuring over 200 people.
Around 700 hard-right demonstrators gathered in Magdeburg last night, with people holding a banner with the word ‘Remigration Now’ and so-called homeland flags.
The protesters, described by German tabloid Bild as right-wing extremists and hooligans, marched through Magdeburg shouting: ‘Anyone who doesn’t love Germany should leave Germany’, ‘Migration kills’ and ‘We must take back our cities, our villages and our homeland’.
Some of the demonstrators reportedly wore masked and were aggressive, resulting in minor scuffles with police.
Social media accounts falsely alleged al-Abdulmohsen was an Islamist terrorist shortly after the attack, but the German interior minister later identified the suspect as being Islamophobic himself.
A harsh critic of Germany’s past welcome too many Muslim migrants, al-Abdulmohsen wrote on the platform X that he wished ex-chancellor Angela Merkel could be jailed for life or executed.
In 2015, Merkel implemented an ‘open door’ policy, which allow over a million asylum seekers to cross the border into Germany.
At last night’s protest in Magdeburg, a known neo-Nazi called Thorsten Heise reportedly stirred up the crowd by yelling: ‘Deport, deport, deport’ and ‘Resistance’.
Experts have now warned that right-wing groups could attempt to exploit the tragic incident for their own ends.
