Authorities hold press conference after attack on a Christmas market in Germany | DW News

The death toll from an attack on a Christmas market in Germany has risen to five. There are more than 200 others injured - 40 of those critically. German chancellor Olaf Scholz is in the eastern German city of Magdeburg where the attack took place on Friday evening. Authorities have arrested the suspect, who drove a car through crowds for several hundred metres. He's a 50 year old doctor from Saudi Arabia who moved to Germany in 2006. He expressed anti-Islam views online and Germany's interior minister says he is considered as being "Islamophobic".

Chapters:
00:00 Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor
01:20 Raphael Bossong, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
06:46 Press conference
33:34 Jenni Graham, DW correspondent

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