The man who allegedly drove into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in the east German city of Magdeburg on Friday evening, killing four people, is a 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia who came to Germany in 2006,

Police identified the suspect as a man from Saudi Arabia, though authorities had not confirmed whether the crash was an act of terrorism. That has not stopped leaders like Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage’s anti-Islam and anti-migration rhetoric,