The chief of the far-right Various for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel, which has targeted on jihadist assaults in its marketing campaign in opposition to immigrants, wrote on X: “When will this insanity cease?”
“What occurred at the moment impacts lots of people. It impacts us quite a bit,” Fael Kelion, a 27-year-old Cameroonian dwelling within the metropolis, instructed AFP.
“I believe that since (the suspect) is a foreigner, the inhabitants might be sad, much less welcoming”.
Michael Raarig, 67 and an engineer, feared the assault “will play into the fingers of the AfD” which has had its strongest help within the previously communist jap Germany.
Safety was stepped up Saturday at Christmas markets elsewhere in Germany with extra police out in Hamburg, Leipzig and different cities.
Church bells rang in Magdeburg and throughout the area at 7:03 pm (1803 GMT) the time of Friday’s assault.
