The chief of the far-right Various for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel, which has centered on jihadist assaults in its marketing campaign towards immigrants, wrote on X: “When will this insanity cease?”
“What occurred in the present day impacts lots of people. It impacts us rather a lot,” Fael Kelion, a 27-year-old Cameroonian residing within the metropolis, informed AFP.
“I feel 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 assist within the previously communist japanese 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.