Among other things: he was already on German law enforcement radar a year and a half ago (they didn’t think he was an acute threat). He was given a platform by a US based Islamphobe conspiracy theorist who in turn has been given a platform by Musk and who is on German law enforcement radar. He also worked at the hospital in Magdeburg and publicly wrote death threats against former Chancellor Merkel just weeks ago.
All in all a really weird case, but not unprecedented. A previous shooting was committed by someone with a similar ex-muslim anti-islam ideology, and the German government supports such groups.
James Jackson (usually on Xitter) writes a bunch about German current events and has a lot of interesting information about the attacker.
https://xcancel.com/derjamesjackson
Among other things: he was already on German law enforcement radar a year and a half ago (they didn’t think he was an acute threat). He was given a platform by a US based Islamphobe conspiracy theorist who in turn has been given a platform by Musk and who is on German law enforcement radar. He also worked at the hospital in Magdeburg and publicly wrote death threats against former Chancellor Merkel just weeks ago.
All in all a really weird case, but not unprecedented. A previous shooting was committed by someone with a similar ex-muslim anti-islam ideology, and the German government supports such groups.