After the alleged attack on a Magdeburg Christmas market, tech billionaire Elon Musk On his platform X, Chancellor Scholz was verbally attacked. “Scholz should resign immediately,” Musk wrote on his online service X in a series of postings about what happened in Magdeburg. He added: “incompetent idiot” (e.g.: incompetent fool). Musk also shared a user’s comment that described the incident as a direct result of unregulated “mass immigration.”

The Tesla founder and richest man in the world chose a completely different reaction than many politicians at home and abroad who had expressed their dismay and sympathy, including Vice President-elect JD Vance.

The alleged attack took place on Friday evening Magdeburg
According to authorities, at least two people were killed and at least 60 others were injured. According to their own statements, the police arrested a doctor from Saudi Arabia who had been living in Germany since 2006 as the suspected perpetrator.

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The comment about Magdeburg came after Musk had already caused irritation in Berlin that morning when he posted that only the AfD could save Germany. The entrepreneur who was chosen by the future US President Donald Trump was made a government advisor, has been commenting on the policies of the US government, but also various governments in Europe, via X for some time.

Most recently, he pledged his support to the right-wing populist British party Reform UK and Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage. For his announcements, Musk mostly uses the online service that he bought two years ago to spread his anti-migrant messages and conspiracy stories worldwide.

Trump had commissioned Musk to act as an external advisor to the government to significantly reduce government spending and personnel. The alliance between the future president and the head of the Tesla and SpaceX companies is causing criticism and the associated conflicts of interest.