A 50-year-old man from Saudi Arabia identified as Taleb A drove into the Christmas market in Magdeburg with the death toll rising to five.

A senior lawmaker from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats railed against Elon Musk’s interference in German politics and called for a new antitrust act to constrain his influence in the corporate world.

Germany’s intelligence agency has monitored the party, known as Alternative for Germany, for suspected extremism.

It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.

Musk’s tweet was promoting another tweet from Naomi Seibt a German climate change denier who rose to prominence as the anti-Greta Thunberg. Seibt has also promoted conspiracy theories and been accused of being antisemitic, according to the Guardian, a claim she denies.

Elon Musk’s politics has been shifting for a long time. Last week, he endorsed the German far-right AfD party. There’s also speculation that he will donate to Reform UK.

The far-right Alternative for Germany party is classified by German intelligence as a suspected extremist organization.

Musk was roasted on his own social media platform by a political scientist, a fellow billionaire and many others.

Only the AfD can save Germany,” Elon Musk wrote, referencing the far-right anti-immigrant and anti-Islam party in Europe’s largest country.

Musk said that ‘only the AfD can save Germany’ in a post on X on Friday night that provoked widespread backlash from politicians at home and overseas

Elon Musk appears to be leaning even further into a full neo-Nazi embrace. Following his social media assault to block a congressional spending bill meant to avoid a government shutdown, the tech billionaire took to X and described the racist, far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as Germany’s last, best hope.