Overview

• The letter details Taleb A.’s unrepentant pride in the December 20, 2024 attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market and contains fresh threats to kill more Germans.
• He recounts multiple abandoned 2023 schemes, including plans to target the Magdeburg prosecutor’s office with 20–50 gas cylinders and to ram a café and restaurant.
• Taleb A. credits his radicalization to losing an August 2023 defamation lawsuit against Säkulare Flüchtlingshilfe Köln, which he said fueled his grievance against German authorities.
• Investigators matched the handwriting to a testament left in the attacker’s car and deem the letter authentic; lead prosecutor Klaus Tewes has refused to confirm or deny its validity.
• The revelation renews scrutiny of security lapses exposed by Taleb A.’s pre-attack scouting and ongoing concerns over monitoring radicalized individuals in custody.