BERLIN — A man suspected of plowing a car through crowds at a German Christmas market in an attack that killed five people and injured scores faces multiple charges of murder and attempted murder, police said on Sunday.Friday evening's attack in the central city of Magdeburg shocked the country and stirred up tensions over the charged issue of immigration.
in keeping with local privacy laws.Motive unclearAs authorities investigated a possible motive, the Magdeburg prosecutor, Horst Nopens, said on Saturday that one possible factor could be what he called the suspect's frustration with Germany's handling of Saudi refugees.The suspect had been strongly critical of Islam in the past and had appeared in a number of media interviews in 2019 reporting on his work helping Saudi Arabians who had turned their back on Islam to flee to Europe.