The security authorities apparently did not suspect the Magdeburg attacker, Taleb A., of a plot despite several suspicious incidents.
According to the “World” newspaper, citing a phone conference between the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the state criminal police offices (LKA) at the weekend, the suspect had been known to the BKA for a long time and had been checked for “risk factors” due to “dangerous circumstances” in the past year. However, no concrete danger was seen. It was said in a risk assessment that there was “no concrete danger” coming from the man.
The “World” newspaper, citing reports from participants, further writes that the BKA still believes the attacker to be an “acting alone perpetrator without an explicitly Islamist motive”. The suspect had already been the subject of several investigations in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and North Rhine-Westphalia for “threats, defamation, and sexual offenses” that were still pending.
It was reported in the phone conference that “the impression of a psychically conspicuous multi-writer” emerged.
Meanwhile, the MDR reports that the police in Saxony-Anhalt received a tip about Taleb A. in September 2023 and did not respond. The tip came from the same person who had previously contacted the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) and the police in Berlin, it was said. Both offices had claimed to be not responsible and the tip-giver was eventually sent to the police in Magdeburg, from which, however, she never received a response, the tip-giver told the MDR. The police in Magdeburg told the MDR that, due to ongoing investigations, no information could be provided at the moment.