Death toll rises to five after car driven into German Christmas market with more than 200 injured

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The death toll in the attack on a busy Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five.Saxony-Anhalt governor Reiner Haseloff also said that more than 200 people in total were injured, many seriously, when a Saudi doctor intentionally drove a black BMW into the market on Friday evening.Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that nearly 40 of them “are so seriously injured that we must be very worried about them”.Authorities identified the suspect as a 50-year-old who has been living in Germany for nearly two decades and practising medicine there.He was arrested on Friday evening at the site of the attack as medical officials tended to the injured, and was taken into custody for questioning.Several German media outlets identified the man as Taleb A, withholding his last name in line with privacy laws, and reported that he was a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy.There were still no answers on Saturday as to what caused him to drive into a crowd in the eastern German city of Magdeburg.Describing himself as a former Muslim, he shared dozens of tweets and retweets daily focusing on anti-Islam themes, criticising the religion and congratulating Muslims who left the faith.He also accused German authorities of failing to do enough to combat what he said was the “Islamism of Europe”.

Some described him as an activist who helped Saudi women flee their homeland. He has also voiced support for the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.Recently, he seemed focused on his theory that German authorities have been targeting Saudi asylum seekers.Prominent German terrorism expert Peter Neumann said he had yet to come across a suspect in an act of mass violence with that profile.“After 25 years in