A video of a police operation in Berlin has been misleadingly linked online to the Dec. 20 car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg in posts suggesting that Muslims were targeted by authorities following the attack.

Four days after a car attack on the visitors of a German Christmas market, the mood in Magdeburg remained somber on Tuesday (December 24), the day Germans traditionally celebrate Christmas. Mourners,

Saudi doctor, Taleb A., accused of the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, was the subject of a speech by the leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). She claimed that the attacker was a secret Islamist hiding in a non-Islamic society.

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.

Racist attacks against migrants have come in the wake of the deadly Christmas market attack in Magdeburg. Observers warn of Germany's extreme-right scene mobilizing over the incident.

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.