The suspect's apparent beliefs have muddied attempts to use his alleged killing of five people and injuring 200 others as an anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim cautionary tale.
German leaders are coming under intense scrutiny for failing to prevent an attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg last week after receiving several warnings about the suspect ― an anti-Islam activist who made little secret of his violent intentions in online posts.
Alice Weidel, co-leader of the AfD, spoke at a mass rally outside the cathedral in Magdeburg yesterday, near where Saudi doctor Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, 50, smashed his rented SUV into crowd at the Christmas market on Friday.
Five people, including a nine-year-old boy, were killed when a man drove a car into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on December 20.
