The far-Right Alternative for Germany party has claimed the Magdeburg Christmas market killer is “a closet jihadist and undercover Islamist” despite his avowed anti-Muslim views.

Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the AfD, made the claims at a mass rally outside the cathedral in Magdeburg, near where Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, 50, a Saudi psychiatrist, ploughed his rented SUV into the crowd at the Christmas market on Friday.

Five people, including nine-year-old André Gleißner, were killed, and at least 235 people were injured in the attack, dozens seriously, according to authorities.