The suspected attacker appeared on an US podcast just eight days before his attack in which he made a series of claims that gave insights into his paranoid state of mind.
Speaking to an organisation called the Rair Foundation, Taleb al Abdulmohsen claimed that Germany was persecuting Saudi ex-Muslims and “actively trying to destroy their lives.”
He said this campaign of persecution was being conducted covertly by a “Gestapo-like police unit” and was taking place across the globe.
Germany is “committing serious crimes including sexual abuse, leading Saudi ex-Muslims to consume drugs, and lying in order to deport them to Saudi Arabia to be executed,” he claimed.
He also asserted that German authorities had made his private address public in an attempt to intimidate him or because “they might be planning to do something.”
“They might kill me,” he stated, asking “Why would they expose my address?”
He also said that he had tried to expose this plot to the German public but “most people avoid helping me because they are afraid.”
