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After an attacker drove an SUV. killed five people, calls for solidarity temporarily gave way to complaints from rival lawmakers in the run-up to early elections scheduled for February.
By Melissa Eddy
Reporting from Berlin
A few days after an attacker conducted an after-sales service. After killing five more people at a Christmas market in eastern Germany, calls for solidarity gave way to political gunfire, as questions were raised on Monday about the authorities’ inability to save the deaths. .
Police are arresting a Saudi refugee, a 50-year-old doctor, who they say was behind the attack. He had lived in Germany for almost two decades.
Still, the killings, in the eastern city of Magdeburg, brought concerns about immigration and security back to the fore, with political leaders on Monday looking to position themselves on those hot-button issues ahead of snap elections scheduled for February.
Despite calls not to use the attack for political purposes, complaints from the German government, including Elon Musk, have emerged from all sides. The fallout threatens to fuel what is already shaping up to be a brief but intense crusade following the government’s collapse after Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a vote of confidence in parliament last week.
The far-right Alternative for Germany party held a rally in Magdeburg on Monday. Hundreds of people attended the event in the city center, chanting “If you don’t like Germany, leave it” and “Expel it!” »
Before the demonstration, the party’s chancellor candidate, Alice Weidel, made it clear that the occasion would also be used for political purposes.
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