Hidden children's pornography: Magdeburg assassin again in focus!

Hidden children's pornography: Magdeburg assassin again in focus!

Magdeburg, Deutschland - In Magdeburg, an incident causes excitement that not only affects the investigation into a terrible assassination attempt, but also raises a new dimension of the fight against crime. The assassin Taleb al-abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old man born in Saudi Arabia, is currently in custody after racing his car in a crowd on the Christmas market on December 6, 2024 and taking six people and injured over 300. This tragedy not only caused concern, but also raised the question of what is going on in the minds of people who are capable of such extreme violence. The BBC counted the background that are important for a deeper understanding of the perpetrator.

al-Abdulmohsen has been in Germany since 2006 and lives about 50 kilometers south of Magdeburg in Bernburg. Despite his criticism of Islam and his former sympathetic statements about the right -wing populist AfD, he does not show the classic profile of an Islamist extremist, which the investigators puzzled. Warnings of his extreme views have already been pronounced by Saudi Arabic authorities in the previous year.

new evidence discovered

The latest developments in the Al-Abdulmohsen case not only aim at the assassination attempt, but also on newly discovered evidence. Employees of a clearing company found a laptop when cleaning up his apartment, which was most likely overlooked during a previous search. Experts from the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) were able to reconstruct the damaged hard drive of the laptop. They came across children's pornographic material. This information comes from BILD, which report that the files have no direct reference to the attacks, but "content-related content" contained.

The fact that eleven of the recovered files are classified as slightly suspicious and child and youth pornographic content on it is particularly frightening. These findings have already been forwarded to the Halle public prosecutor, which is responsible for such offenses. However, it remains unclear whether the content is already time -barred or whether they are relevant for the ongoing investigation.

increase in children's pornography cases

The topic is all the more concise, since, according to a study by the Federal Criminal Police Office, the number of cases recorded in connection with child pornography has increased significantly from 2016 to 2024. This survey shows that there is sad growth in both the distribution as well as in the acquisition, possession and the production of child pornographic content. For example, 6,569 cases were registered in the current records in 2023 alone. These figures illustrate how high the problem of child pornography in Germany and that it urgently needs more prevention measures (https://de.statista.com/statistik/studie/1110942/polizeilich-erfastte-faelle-im-am-mamhang-mit-kinderpornography.

For the judiciary, it is now crucial to connect the indictment against Taleb al-abdulmohsen, which is to be completed in the summer of 2024, to the new evidence. The arrest of the perpetrator and the discovery of stressful material not only raise questions about the message behind the terrible assassination, but also to urgency, against the spread of child pornography. A systematic approach to such offenses could perhaps also be a warning to future perpetrators, because where violence is happening, the consequences must be clearly communicated.