Police in Germany have said a man suspected of killing at least five people and injuring hundreds more after a car was driven at speed through a crowded Christmas market faces charges of murder and attempted murder.
The suspect, named by German media as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia who arrived in Germany in 2006, was remanded in custody late on Saturday after the attack in the central town of Magdeburg on Friday night.
Police said on Sunday that prosecutors had pressed charges of murder and attempted murder against Abdulmohsen, an anti-Islam activist who has made death threats online against German citizens and has a history of disputes with state authorities.
While thousands mourned the victims, identified as four women aged 52, 45, 75 and 67 and a nine-year-old boy, about 2,100 people attended a far-right rally billed as a “demonstration against terror”, local media reported.
Protesters at the rally wore black balaclavas and were filmed holding a large banner with the word “remigration”, a term popular with anti-immigration extremists seeking the mass deportation of migrants and people deemed not ethnically German.
The government is facing growing questions about whether more could have been done to prevent the attack, which injured 205 people, 40 of whom were in a critical condition.
Teams of surgeons have been working around the clock since the first survivors of the attack arrived, with one health worker telling local media of “blood on the floor everywhere, people screaming, lots of painkillers being administered”
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