Summary
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser criticized the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) for politicizing last week’s Magdeburg Christmas market attack, where a car drove into crowds, killing 5 and injuring over 200.
Faeser condemned the AfD’s rally, attended by 3,500 people, as exploiting victims’ suffering ahead of February snap elections.
The 50-year-old suspect, Taleb A., a Saudi-born German resident since 2006, is in custody.
Investigators are examining his motives, noting his criticism of Islam and prior support for the AfD.
May be doing a translation of some parameters of the story helps to highlight the absurd behind the whole thing: what if pre-WWII a perturbed individual, with nazi beliefs despite being conscious of his jew origins, kills Germans attempting to promote the reasoning that jews must be handled according to nazi ideals and the nazi party pretends to use it with this intent…