Free Republic

The death toll in the Magdeburg Christmas market attack has risen to five, with more than 200 injured. Visiting the scene on Saturday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said it was a “terrible act...to injure and kill so many people with such brutality.” “We have now learnt that over 200 people have been injured,” he said. “Almost 40 are so seriously injured that we must be very worried about them.” The suspect, a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who moved to Germany in 2006, is an ex-Muslim who expressed support for the far-Right AfD and criticised the government over migrants “Islamising” the country.