Authorities in Germany on Monday released details of the threats made by the suspect in the deadly car crash through a Christmas market in Magdeburg.
According to the Ministry of Justice in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the suspect identified as Taleb A had intended to commit acts of violence twice before the December 20 attack, which killed five people and injured about 230. .
Concerned with what he saw as the slow processing of his request for a specialist examination, the doctor had in April 2013 threatened in a telephone call with an employee of the medical society that something would happen that would draw attention between national.
“He asked the worker if she had seen the pictures from Boston. Something like that would happen here too,” said the ministry.
One day earlier, on April 15, three people were killed and 260 injured in the Boston Marathon bombing.
According to reports, the Rostock Public Prosecutor's Office applied to the district court for a search warrant for Taleb A's flat in the city of Stralsund, which was granted.
However, no weapons, other dangerous materials or bomb-making materials were found in the home of the man, a Saudi national who has now been living in Germany for almost 20 years.
Later, Taleb wrote a letter to the Public Prosecutor in August 2015, saying, among other things: “From a purely postmodern philosophical point of view, you are a dirty bacteria that should be destroyed soon to protect the German people from your threat. Yes.”
He called it a “moral duty” to destroy articles of the German constitution that refer to the administration of justice in Germany and the position of judges.
“I am willing to pay my whole life for that. It is only a matter of time. But it will not take long. The whole world will be talking about it,” he said in the letter.
However, the ministry said on Monday that the deletion of some files meant that it was not possible to access the results of that investigation.
The 50-year-old suspect remains in custody during what Interior Minister Nancy Faeser promised would be a complete clarification of the events leading up to the attack.
“The whole background needs to be thoroughly investigated. Every stone will be turned here,” Faeser said Monday after a special session of the Parliament's Internal Affairs Committee in Berlin.
“It is now a matter of gathering all the evidence that will provide a picture of the perpetrator of this crime.”
Faeser said the man “doesn't fit any previous mold” and that there were striking signs of a pathological psyche.
That is why the thousands of statements he made on the Internet were being investigated, as well as information and proceedings brought before various authorities, she said.
It was important to draw the right conclusions about “how such information needs to be evaluated and summarized in the future to be able to intervene in a timely manner,” Faeser said.
