Right-wing violence after attack in Magdeburg: Nurse racially beaten

Magdeburg – Since the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market With over 200 injured and five dead exactly a week ago, racist hostilities are increasing.

In Magdeburg, around 10 percent of the residents do not have German citizenship, as the taz reports.

Since the beginning of the week, these people have been urged by the state network of migrant organizations in Saxony-Anhalt to no longer travel around the state capital alone or in the dark.

Since the Saudi Arabian doctor Taleb A. (50) drove a car into the crowd, right-wing groups have mobilized – shortly after the attack they roamed violently through the city to attack people who did not look German enough to them.

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Attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg: This is how Taleb A.’s (50) death journey went!

The fact that Taleb A. believes his social media is Islamophobic and an AfD fan himself seems to fade behind his ancestry for those groups. He is now classified as a right-wing extremist by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

The taz spoke to several people who were hostile and sometimes physically attacked because of their appearance – including an intensive care nurse who had recently fought for the life of the attack victims in the university hospital.

At Christmas, the nurse had her husband pick her up after her shift because she didn’t want to be out alone.

When they stopped at Hasselbachplatz to get food, a drunk man started insulting the couple and banging on the window.

“Shit foreigners, shit Arabs, get the hell out of my country, we’ll kill you, we’ll gas you,” he shouted in parallel with a Hitler salute.

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Magdeburg perpetrator Taleb A. should lose his doctor’s license!

The two called the police and tried to get around the man until they stopped at a couple who asked if everything was okay. Then the drunk woman came and hit her husband several times in the face. When she tried to intervene, she also received a punch in the face.

Both ended up in the emergency room at the university hospital, where they had just worked before.

“I just don’t feel safer and I’m scared for myself, my family and my friends because I just know that it’s not the first or the last time and we’re not the only ones affected by this,” said the nurse compared to the taz.

On Monday, the clinic in Olvenstedt commented on the xenophobic mood in the city on Facebook.

When they received the “mass of injured people” after the attack, they all stuck together: “Employees from over 20 nations. It didn’t matter what country someone came from. Or what religion he belonged to. People helped people because they were people.” “

Without colleagues from other countries, the hospital would be “closed overnight,” the article says. “We couldn’t have helped when it mattered. We couldn’t have saved the adults and children.”