After the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, tech billionaire Elon Musk enters the scene, shares a conspiracy theory and criticizes the German federal government.
“Musk wrote on his own Twitter network/X (German: ‘Scholz should resign immediately. Incompetent fool’) after the initial reports of the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market.
Later, he shared a conspiracy theory, claiming that the man from Saudi Arabia, who drove an SUV into the crowd in Magdeburg, was a fugitive criminal that Germany allegedly refused to extradite due to the human rights situation. ‘Whoever refused to extradite a murderer deserves to be severely punished’ commented Musk on this rumor (German: ‘Wer sich weigert, einen Mörder auszuliefern, verdient eine harte Strafe’).
However, in the source he mentioned, the man was not described as a ‘murderer’ but as a ‘fugitive traitor’.
According to the Magdeburg police, there is currently no information on the background of the crime, not even whether there is an Islamist motive. The man was not known as an Islamist, but was even reported to be a radical anti-Islam figure by journalists who found this on his social media accounts. ‘We’re considering everything’ a police spokesperson said in the evening. According to initial information, the man was born in 1974 and first came to Germany in 2006. He was last active as a doctor in Bernburg, as German authorities reported.’