Overview
- Taleb A. has begun sending letters to survivors from high-security detention, reviving trauma among those injured in the December Christmas market attack.
- Ahmad A., a former acquaintance of Taleb A., publicly praised the rampage as justified revenge and vowed to carry out his own attack.
- Police lost track of Ahmad A. after he vanished following his interview, with authorities unable to locate him due to a lack of fixed address.
- The Saxony State Criminal Police Office opened an investigation into Ahmad A. after MDR journalists alerted law enforcement to his threats.
- SPD parliamentary manager Rüdiger Erben said he will raise the case in a state investigative committee to push for tighter protocols on monitoring ‘Gefährder’.