A 50-year-old Saudi-born man is being held in Germany on suspicion of Friday night's car attack on hundreds of people visiting Magdeburg's Christmas market. The attack killed five people, including a nine-year-old boy and four women, and left more than 200 injured, with many in a critical condition.

New information is emerging about the Friday attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, which claimed the lives of five people. It has been revealed that the German police contacted the perpetrator a few weeks before the attack.

The far right, polling second in voting intention with 19%, is trying to take electoral advantage of the incident two months before the general elections, ignoring the fact that the attacker sympathiz