Child Molester Among Three Transgender Inmates Suing Florida In ACLU-Backed Demand For “Gender Affirming Care”

The ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of multiple trans-identified male inmates in Florida who allege that a new policy prohibiting “gender affirming care” amounts to a violation of their Eighth Amendment Right against cruel and unusual punishment. Among the three named in the lawsuit, one is a convicted pedophile who sexually abused two 10-year-old girls.

On September 30, 2024, the Florida Department of Corrections established Health Services Bulletin 15.05.23, entitled “Mental Health Treatment of Inmates with Gender Dysphoria.” The new policy stipulates that “state law prohibits the Department from expending any state funds to purchase cross-sex hormones for the treatment of gender dysphoria.” The Bulletin represented a deviation from previous state policy, which had allowed for both cross-sex hormones and other accommodations to be provided to trans-identified inmates.

Inmates in FDOC care were given 30 days to comply with the policy, which also included turning over any feminine undergarments they had been provided and cutting their hair.

In response to the policy change, the ACLU of Florida filed a lawsuit on behalf of four trans-identified male inmates, arguing that the Bulletin violated their rights against cruel and unusual punishment.

The primary inmate named in the suit is Reiyn Keohane, a trans-identified male serving a 15-year sentence for attempting to murder his female roommate in 2013. Keohane had become enraged and stabbed the woman in the throat before fleeing the crime scene on a moped.

Reiyn Keohane. Photo courtesy the Florida Department of Corrections.

The victim was able to alert a neighbor for help and identify Keohane as her attacker before losing consciousness. When arrested, Keohane was found with two knives and an AR15 clip. He was ultimately sentenced to 15 years in prison and is currently incarcerated at the Wakulla Correctional Institution Annex in Crawfordville.

In 2016, Keohane sued the FDOC after he was denied cross-sex hormones. Two years later, a court ruled in his favor and ordered the FDOC to accommodate his demands for “gender affirming care” and “female grooming standards.” Keohane’s 2016 suit resulted in the FDOC instituting the policy on “gender affirming care” which has now been rescinded.

Keohane is now the main plaintiff in an ACLU-backed lawsuit tackling the FDOC’s newest policy, which prohibits the state use of funds towards “gender affirming care” for inmates. He has been joined by three other named inmates so far.

A second plaintiff that has submitted a testimony in the lawsuit is George “Sasha” Mendoza, a trans-identified male convicted of both first and second degree murder in 1985.

In his statement, Mendoza, 53, claims he had known his “gender identity” since he was 15 years old, and began transitioning while in the custody of the FDOC.

George “Sasha” Mendoza. Photo courtesy the Florida Department of Corrections.

“I love wearing make-up. Even though I can only do it inside the dorm, I would look forward to being able to wear it. It makes me feel more like a woman. I feel better and don’t feel like a man,” Mendoza writes in his testimony. “Being able to receive hormone therapy and follow female clothing and grooming standards has made it possible for me to live as the woman I am and, thus, alleviated the painful distress of gender dysphoria.” Mendoza is currently incarcerated at the Dade Correctional Institution.

The third plaintiff named in the case is Matthew “Michelle” Ward, 53, a convicted child rapist serving a life sentence for the sexual abuse of two young girls.

According to a 1993 article from the Tampa Bay Times, Ward victimized two 10-year-old girls from his neighborhood after offering to babysit them. According to one of the victims who testified against Ward in court, “he brought us into the bedroom and did nasty stuff to us.” Ward was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for sexual battery.

Matthew “Michelle” Ward. Photo courtesy the Florida Department of Corrections.

Testimony provided by Ward to the ACLU claims that the convicted child sexual abuser has “known [his] gender identity is female” since he was a young boy.

“I am a 53 year-old transgender woman in the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections… I have known my gender identity is female since between ages 8 and 10… I tried to cut my penis off when I was 10… I began socially transitioning – wearing female-typical clothing, hairstyles, and cosmetics – at age 15.”

Ward stated that he was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in May 2019 by Dr. Gascon while he was incarcerated at Dade Correctional Institution. He was then provided with a bra and “female undergarments, hair accessories, and makeup” and stopped cutting his hair.

After Dade Correctional authorities recalled the feminine underwear that had been given to male inmates who claimed to be women, Ward said he felt “naked and humiliated” without his bra. “My breasts were evaluated by medical on October 10 and I was told I did not qualify for a bra. I have a B cup.”

Ward also claims that he was ordered to have his hair cut, and that during the process he “cried the whole time.”

“The loss of my hair, along with female undergarments and makeup, has been earth-shattering for me. The thoughts about self-castration and suicidality that I experienced before treatment came flooding back like a tidal wave. I stay awake crying many nights.”

The case is proceeding through the courts, and while the ACLU has filed for an injunction to temporarily allow trans-identified males in FDOC custody to receive “gender affirming care,” the court has not yet made a decision on the request.

The ACLU has pursued multiple lawsuits in several states against the US prison authorities on behalf of men convicted of horrific crimes. As revealed by Reduxx, a 2019 ACLU lawsuit against the New Jersey Department of Corrections which required the state to allow violent male inmates to self-identify into the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women was lodged on behalf of a self-admitted diaper fetishist and convicted terrorist.

In September, the ACLU in Indiana successfully fought to have a transgender baby killer be given taxpayer-funded “gender affirming” surgeries. Yesterday, the United States District Court of Indiana ruled that Autumn Cordellioné, born Jonathan C. Richardson, had been subjected to “cruel and unusual punishment” by being denied the various plastic surgeries he had demanded.

Last year, the ACLU of Florida criticized officials for not providing “gender-affirming care” to a convicted rapist and murderer prior to his execution. Duane Owen had been handed a death sentence after brutally murdering a 38-year-old mother and a 14-year-old girl in 1984. Owen claimed that he sexually assaulted women as part of a ritual to harvest their hormones, and that he was a transsexual who carried out the sexual violence to “turn himself into a female.”

https://reduxx.info/child-molester-among-three-transgender-inmates-suing-florida-in-aclu-backed-demand-for-gender-affirming-care/

Populist AfD Leader Alice Weidel Surges to Top of German Chancellor Polls Ahead of February Elections

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The leader of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel has surged to the top of the polls of preferred chancellors in the upcoming February elections.

In a survey conducted by the INSA polling firm for the BILD newspaper, AfD leader Alice Weidel surged by three points over the previous week to 24 points, surpassing the leader of the centrist neo-liberal Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz, who fell by one point to 20 per cent since the previous week.

Meanwhile, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the current candidate for the leftist Social Democrat Party (SPD) languishes in third place, falling one point from last week to 15 per cent support. Scholz is followed by his Economic Minister Robert Habeck, the chancellor candidate for the Greens, at 14 per cent.

The survey, which polled 1,005 people, was conducted between December 18th and 19th, the day before the Christmas market attack in Magdeburg that left at least five dead and over 200 injured.

The attack, allegedly carried out by a migrant from Saudi Arabia, is likely to play a major role in February 23rd elections.

Although the attack happened under the watch of Chancellor Scholz, the suspected attacker was reportedly granted asylum in 2016, under the CDU government of Angela Merkel.

The surge in the polls for Weidel came amid the endorsement of her party by X owner Elon Musk, who declared this week that “only the AfD can save Germany”.

Musk merely expressing his personal opinion on German politics has been branded as election “interference” by leftists in Germany and globalists within the European Union.

The general secretary of the governing Social Democrats, Matthias Miersch said: “No outside interference in the German election campaign – that is a principle that we have to defend,” adding: “We oppose this clearly: Germany needs neither foreign influences nor Trumpism. Stay out, Elon.”

Former EU censorship czar, Thierry Breton, who was accused of meddling in the U.S. presidential election by demanding Musk censor a live interview he held with Donald Trump, also alleged that it was “interference” for X boss to express support for the AfD.

However, the German government has refused to condemn Musk for his comments, with spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann saying: “We have of course taken note of this and of course freedom of expression also applies to X.”

While Weidel and the AfD have surged in the polls, it remains unlikely that the party will enter government following the February elections, given that all other political parties have agreed to a cordon sanitaire around the AfD, meaning that they refuse to form a coalition with the right-wing party.

As a result, the supposedly centre-right CDU/CSU party may be forced into partnering with the leftist SPD of Chancellor Scholz to form a government in a move that would likely entail concessions to the left on migration, fiscal, and energy policies.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/12/22/populist-afd-leader-alice-weidel-surges-to-top-of-german-chancellor-polls-ahead-of-february-elections

German protesters demand mass deportations as thousands take to streets in aftermath of Christmas market attack which killed five

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Thousands of protestors took to the streets of Germany as they called for mass deportations following the Christmas market massacre which killed five people.

Mass demonstrations attracted 2,100 attendees in the Saxony-Anhault capital yesterday, with individuals holding up placards saying “Remigration Now”.

The demonstrators marched through the city, 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 wore black balaclavas and were “aggressive”, which resulted in small clashes with the police.

Meanwhile, other attendees paid their respects to the those who died.

Friday night’s attack left hundreds injured and five dead, including one young boy, 9, and four women aged 52, 45, 75 and 67 according to police statements.

Approximately 40 people received critical or serious injuries.

At the scene, police arrested a 50-year-old Saudi psychiatrist with a history of anti-Islamic beliefs, who has lived in Germany for almost 20 years, although his motive has remained unclear.

A magistrate has subsequently ordered the suspect into pretrial custody on charges of murder of five counts, in addition to multiple counts of murder and grievous bodily harm.

Authorities believe that the suspect drove through emergency exit points to access the Christmas market, before he accelerated into the crowds, hitting more than 200 people in a three-minute attack.

Magdeburg prosecutor Horst Nopens theorised that a factor which might have played a part in the suspect’s motivation was his frustration with Germany’s treatment of Saudi refugees.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/magdeburg-protest-christmas-market-attack-mass-deportation-saudi-doctor-reply

Christmas Market Killer Was Known to German Police, Saudi Officials

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The man arrested for ramming a car into a crowd of shoppers on the Friday evening at the Magdeburg Christmas market in Germany, Taleb Jawad al-Abdulmohsen, came to the attention of German authorities as early as 2013. In September of that year, the Rostock District Court sentenced the Saudi doctor to a fine for “disturbing the public peace by threatening to commit criminal offenses,” reports Bild.

Other details about the man accused of killing five people, including a nine-year-old child, and leaving more than 200 injured, have also emerged, including that Saudi Arabia recently warned German authorities three times about the potential danger posed by the Saudi national, the German newspaper Der Spiegel reports.

The president of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), Holger Münch, said that in November 2023 there was a tip-off from Saudi Arabia about al-Abdulmohsen. Münch told public broadcaster ZDF that his office had received a notice from the Islamic Kingdom in November 2023.

BBC reports that “a source close to the Saudi government told the BBC it sent four official notifications known as ‘Notes Verbal’ to German authorities, warning them about what they said were “the very extreme views” held by al-Abdulmohsen.”

However, BBC reports, a counter-terrorism expert told the broadcaster that “the Saudis may have been mounting a disinformation campaign to discredit someone who tried to help young Saudi women seek asylum in Germany.”

The police in Saxony-Anhalt then carried out “appropriate investigative measures,” but the reported statements were “unspecific.” The accused also had various contacts with authorities due to insults, and occasional threats, “but he was not known for acts of violence,” the BKA chief said.

The Magdeburg police announced during a press conference on Saturday that an attempt had been made to identify potential threats a year ago. They did not provide any further details. Al-Abdulmohsen had repeatedly made threats against Germany on social media and threatened to use violence. Among other things, he accused the country of pursuing the “Islamization of Europe.”

In the days since the horrific attack, other sometimes-conflicting information about the accused has emerged which point to failures by the German government in assessing the threat posed by al-Abdulmohsen.

Independent Arabia reports that a Saudi woman contacted the German authorities last year, warning of al-Abdulmohsen’s plans to target civilians. However, it reports, these warnings did not receive the necessary attention, which sparked widespread criticism of the German government, which described its failure to deal with the warnings as a “missed opportunity” to avoid the tragedy.

Saudi author and commentator Salman Al-Ansari has claimed on X that al-Abdulmohsen fled Saudi Arabia because he was accused of crimes such as rape. In Germany, the claim is, he pretended to be a dissident and committed crimes such as human trafficking alongside his work as a doctor. This claim has not been independently verified.

Another commentator speculated that al-Abdulmohsen

is not an ex-Muslim atheist, nor is he a fan of the AfD or Elon Musk. While he may have spread this misinformation himself, it aligns with the practice of Taqqiye, an Islamic doctrine that permits lying and deception to advance Islamic objectives. In reality, he is a radical Shia Muslim, as evidenced by his name and numerous tweets and chat leaks circulating on Arabic-speaking platforms like X. Disturbingly, his plans to carry out mass killings of Germans were brought to the attention of German authorities by a Saudi woman. Tragically, the police ignored her warnings.

Nioh Berg noted on X that al-Abdulmohsen recently expressed solidarity with terrorist group Hamas:

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/christmas-market-killer-was-known-to-german-police-saudi-officials/

Ireland’s Immigration Suicide by the Numbers

In my FPM+ article ‘The Autogenocide of Mass Migration’ (paywalled for FPM+ members), I discussed the concept of autogenocide or self-genocide.

Deliberate demographic replacement is considered a form of genocide. But genocide is generally carried out by one group against another. What does it mean when a group carries out genocide against itself?

In politics, a ‘self-coup’ or ‘autocoup’ is a seizure of power by the existing government. Mass migration is an autocoup or an ‘autogenocide’ which, rather than seizing power by armed force, corrupts democracy by importing millions of enemy voters to seize the country ‘democratically’.

In another, non-paywalled article, Ireland is Committing Genocide Against Itself, I broke down how the autogenocide numbers apply to Ireland.

In the last 20 years, Ireland, a small nation of millions, has been overwhelmed by a mass migration of 1.6 million people. In 2023, there were 54,678 births in the Republic of Ireland and 141,600 immigrants. Birth rates dropped 5% in 2023 (hovering at 1.5 births per woman well below replacement rate) but the number of immigrants grew by 31%. And will grow further.

The most popular name for boys was Jack, among Irish parents, while the most popular name among non-European immigrant parents was ‘Mohammed’.

Churches are closing across Ireland and mosques are opening in their place. There were only 400 Muslims in all of Ireland in 1991. That shot up to 19,000 in 2002 and 83,000 in 2023. 3% of Ireland’s children are Muslim now and the numbers are increasing every year.

Like an avalanche gathering speed, this is how the pace of self-genocide accelerates until it becomes unstoppable.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/irelands-immigration-suicide-by-the-numbers/

Gender dolls are part of transgender agenda to deceive children

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As first reported by The Daily Wire and Campus Reform, the University of Minnesota attempted to actually pay children to play with so-called “transgender dolls.” An advertisement was posted to Instagram by the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health; the center is part of the “Human sexuality program” at the University of Minnesota’s medical school. The advertisement reads:

Let’s Talk About Gender. We are looking to hear from transgender and gender diverse children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old and their parents about a new hands-on activity to talk about gender and bodies! Children and parents will meet a few times in groups with others to play with and give us ideas about the activities.

The post notes that compensation for participation amounted to between $20 and $60, and the Instagram advertisement referred interested potential participants to mygenderdolls@umn.edu. As Campus Reform reported: “My Gender Dolls are advertised as a ‘therapeutic tool’ for ‘transgender and gender diverse children.’ The project aims to teach gender ideology to children, who can swap the dolls’ ‘genitals and internal reproductive organs’ to ‘show that their gender identity is valid no matter what parts they have.”

In short, a center associated with the medical school at a prestigious American university sought to pay children to play with dolls that allowed them to mix and match penises and vaginas in order to affirm the idea that biological sex and “gender” are not synonymous but distinct. This is perhaps the best microcosm I have yet seen of what Mary Harrington has been calling “Meat Lego Ideology.” The Daily Wire was unable to confirm whether any parents signed their children up for this transgender doll program or not.

Campus Reform noted that the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health “has also produced a handbook to ‘support sexual pleasure education’ for trans-identifying men after transgender genital surgery” and that the center’s mission is to “1) promote scholarship by those who are trans-identified; 2) forward empiricism that is based on the real lived experience of trans-identified people; 3) challenge cisnormativity in healthcare; and 4) promote pleasure and positive sexuality for all bodies.”

The center exists to grant a veneer of academic respectability to gender ideology that it furthers by attempting to affirm gender dysphoria in children who were likely confused by other gender ideologues to begin with. It isn’t just the University of Minnesota; Campus Reform noted that Syracuse University had a “Trans Support Day” on March 23 that offered “therapeutic support for parents of trans youth” and “a space for youth to connect”; the University of Missouri and Washington University “had also been conducting “gender transitions” on children until a state law made such procedures illegal on Aug. 28, 2023.”

“Transgender toys” are not new, either. Mattel has released a “Laverne Cox” doll; Cox is the trans-identifying actor who was featured on TIME magazine’s infamous “Transgender Tipping Point” cover in 2014. Another doll, called “Sam,” was created in order to “stop the transphobia before it starts.” It is sinister and subversive to consider that dolls for children — toys created encourage the natural nurturing instincts and used in children’s games like “house” or by little girls pretending to be mothers — are now being used as a tool of trans activists to deceive children into believing that sex changes are possible.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/gender-dolls-are-part-of-transgender-agenda-to-deceive-children/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=usa

Sweden tells rejected asylum seekers: ‘Leave first, reapply later’

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The Swedish government has announced tougher immigration proposals to limit the ability of rejected asylum seekers to reapply without first leaving the country.

Under the new rules, rejected asylum seekers must leave Sweden before trying for acceptance again and they will have to wait five years before they can submit a new asylum claim.

Those whose applications are denied will be required to exit Sweden before submitting a new claim or they will not be allowed to make the claim.

Currently, a rejection decision expires after four years and individuals who fail to leave Sweden on time risk a re-entry ban of up to one year.

“These proposals will increase returns and reduce the number of unfounded asylum applications,” said Minister of Migration Johan Forssell, emphasising the government’s goal of tightening immigration control.

In addition to restricting reapplications, the centre-right government, backed by the Sweden Democrats (SD), said it aimed to scrap the “track change” system.

This loophole has allowed rejected asylum seekers to apply for work permits instead of leaving the country.

Forssell highlighted on X the importance of these measures, calling them “important steps to protect regulated immigration where those who are refused must return home”.

“Currently, seven out of 10 applicants for asylum are refused and they must therefore leave the country. At the same time, the short limitation period of just four years has led to many staying and submitting new applications.”

“The fact is that every fourth asylum application today comes from people who should have left Sweden,” he noted.

The government, which came to power in 2022, has prioritised stricter immigration policies in response to a shift in public opinion.

Once celebrated for its progressive stance on immigration, Sweden has seen attitudes harden following a decade of record-setting migration rates within the European Union.

If approved by parliament, the proposed changes are set to take effect on April 1, 2025.

Sweden is not the only Nordic country tightening immigration policies — Denmark has also introduced measures to toughen asylum laws and adjust the pension system for “non-Western” migrants.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/12/sweden-tells-rejected-asylum-seekers-leave-first-reapply-later

Terror strikes a Christmas market in Germany — yet again

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By Eric Utter

There was another devastating terror attack on a Christmas market in Germany yesterday. The video is sickening.

This venue was targeted specifically because it was a Christmas market, whatever progressive Germans themselves may call it.

Had it been a ‘holiday market’ it wouldn’t have held quite as much allure for the Saudi terrorist.

In fact, Christmas market terror attacks have sadly become almost commonplace in Germany.

There are constant calls for ‘common-sense gun control’ in the United States. But, if firearms were banned, citizens would simply be unable to defend themselves against evil. Should there be ‘common-sense knife control’ in formerly jolly olde England where people are getting stabbed on a routine basis?

And, in Germany, should there now be talk of common-sense automobile control?

To hell with their Volkswagens, their Audis, and their BMWs, right?

They should have their right to drive automobiles taken from them because another Middle Eastern terrorist used one to murder and maim dozens and dozens of innocent folks who were enjoying the peace on earth and good will towards men that characterizes Christmas season. And doing a little shopping.

This madness has to stop. Mass-murder events are not caused by inanimate objects — or ones that can only be animated by human beings. Period. They, like all other crimes, are caused by criminals.

What a concept!

When criminals are coddled and released, when illegal immigrants are allowed into a country unchecked, when a society’s culture has become so depraved and enervated, when standards and merit are mocked, when nearly everything but standards, merit, and tradition are tolerated, a nation has entered its denouement.

But it doesn’t have to be thus. Even at this late stage, salvation is possible. But only if evil is not tolerated and civilizational confidence is restored.

Maybe more Germans will listen to Elon Musk now, and support the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Probably not. But I will tell you this: The alternatives to the AfD party are a stagnating economy, terror attacks in perpetuity, cultural dissolution, general decay—and the resultant continual nightmares, hopelessness, and familial devastation.

Say what you will about Germany, but it is filled with hard-working people who have historically made Germany the engine of the European economy. Germany gave the world the diesel engine, the electron microscope, contact lenses, bicycles, beer, the programmable computer, chip cards, helicopters, the printing press, and coffee filters, among many other inventions.

Though many of us may not agree with “Deutschland über Alles,” there is a line, repeated, in the German anthem that reads: “Unity, justice, and freedom.” Germans have long since been reunited. It is time they have justice. That they may continue to be free.

It would be beyond sad if Germany just let itself fade away, gradually absorbed by another culture…and a tad ironic if it failed to repel what amounts to a foreign invader.  
Germany has long since proved its remorse over its role in World War II. There is nothing wrong with the idea of Germany, too, making itself great again.

In fact, it would be a good thing– not only for Germans, but for the civilized world.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/terror_strikes_a_christmas_market_in_germany_yet_again.html

Christmas Market Attack Suspect Was a Saudi Arabian ‘Leftist’ Asylum Activist Promoted by BBC: Reports

Police arrests the terrorist. X

The suspected perpetrator of the Magdeburg Christmas market attack was reportedly an asylum seeker activist who was promoted by legacy media outlets, including the BBC.

“Taleb A.” has been identified in the German press as the main suspect in the attack, in which a rented car was plowed into a crowd gathered for a Christmas market, leaving multiple dead and over 200 injured.

According to reports, the Saudi Arabian man arrived in Germany in 2006 after allegedly fleeing his homeland for fear of persecution for being an atheist. He was granted asylum in Germany in 2016 and had been living in the town of Bernburg — near Magdeburg — where he worked as a psychiatrist.

After moving to Germany, the suspect reportedly established a service to assist other asylum seekers move to Germany. For this work, he was profiled in “several media outlets from FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) to BBC to promote his mission for human rights in Saudi Arabia,” Welt reports.

The BBC noted in 2019 that he focussed on helping ex-Muslims flee from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region, with a particular focus on women.

In an interview with FAZ during the same year, Taleb proclaimed that he was “the most aggressive critic of Islam in history,” claiming that he was ostracized from the Muslim community in Germany over his atheism. In the article he also detailed his move to become a pro-asylum seeker activist in Germany.

An editor’s note attached to the article following him being identified as the suspected Magdeburg attacker, FAZ wrote: “This interview with Taleb Al A. was published in June 2019. Entries of the alleged assassin in the social media indicate that he has also been increasingly quarreling with Germany and its migration policy over the five and a half years since then. There are also signs of persecution delusions. Nothing of this was felt in 2019. Here is the unchanged wording of the conversation.”

Since then, Taleb A became increasingly critical of the German government and its migration agenda, accusing Berlin of promoting the “Islamization” of Europe. He appears to have been particularly angered over the acceptance rate of “Syrian jihadists” compared to ex-Muslims from Saudi Arabia.

While much media attention in the wake of the attack has focussed on statements Taleb made in support of the populist right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party over its critiques of Islamic immigration, he apparently considered himself to be a leftist.

“Taleb A. said in the interview that he was not a right-winger and described himself as a leftist,” Der Spiegel reports.

The German news magazine also reports that Berlin security agencies received three warnings from Saudi Arabia about the suspect. They were also warned following a 2023 post vowing “revenge” against Germany for supposed persecution of Saudi Arabian refugees and that the country would pay a “price”. However, officials allegedly dismissed the statements and reportedly did not consider him to be a threat as a potential extremist.

In another post in 2024 reported by Welt, he is claimed to have said: “I assure you: If Germany wants war, we will have it. If Germany wants to kill us, we will slaughter them, die or proudly go to prison. Because we have exhausted all peaceful means, we have only encountered more crimes from the police, the state security service, the public prosecutor’s office, the judiciary and the Ministry of the Interior. Peace is of no use to them.”

There are increasing suggestions that the suspect may have suffered from some form of mental illness, with German media describing his posts online as having been “confused”.

According to the BILD newspaper, a saliva drug test taken after the attack indicated that the suspect may have been intoxicated at the time of the attack. While it is currently unclear what drug he may have been on, the paper notes that the test scans for seven different drugs, including amphetamines, benzodiazepines, cannabis, cocaine, opiates, cocaine, and methamphetamines (MDMA, ecstasy).

At the time of this reporting, five people have died as a result of the attack and over 200 were left injured, many of whom seriously.

Christmas Market Attack Suspect Was Asylum Activist Promoted by BBC: Report