Far-right co-chair Alice Weidel says attack was ‘an act of an Islamist full of hatred ... for us Germans, for us Christians’

Germany's far-right AfD party on Monday held what it called a "memorial" rally for victims of a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market that has newly inflamed debate on migrant and security policy.

In the car of the man who drove into the crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on 20 December, a note containing the perpetrator's last will was found. He had considered the possibility of dying and wanted to dispose of his assets.