Immediately before the attack in New Orleans: Islamist searched for Magdeburg on the Internet!

New Orleans - Shortly before Shamsud-Din Jabbar (42) carried out an attack in New Orleans, killing 14 people, he found out about a similar horrific event in Germany on the Internet.

Just a few hours before the terrorist raced through the busy Bourbon Street on New Year's Eve with an IS flag on his pick-up truck, he searched the internet for information about the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, as the FBI announced on Tuesday.

A few days earlier, on December 20, Saudi citizen Taleb A. (50) had also driven a vehicle with evil intentions into a crowd of people there, killing six people and injuring almost 300 others.

In addition to the inhumane methods used in both terrorist attacks, the FBI has uncovered another similarity between the two perpetrators.

In both cases, the later attackers scouted out their chosen target location in advance. While Taleb A. stayed in a hotel in the immediate vicinity of the Magdeburg Christmas market, Din Jabbar traveled to New Orleans by train on November 10, one and a half months before his attack.

According to US investigators, he looked at an apartment on Orleans Street, a side street of Bourbon Street. On the same day, the former soldier left again by bus and then informed the landlord that he was interested in the property. Shortly afterwards, however, he withdrew his interest.

In addition to the Magdeburg attack, Din Jabbar typed other interesting facts into the search bar: Among other things, he found out about how to get onto a balcony on Bourbon Street, past shootings in the city and details about the "Mardi Gras" festival.