Police in Germany have said a man suspected of killing at least five people and injuring hundreds more after a car was driven at speed through a crowded Christmas market faces charges of murder and attempted murder. The suspect, named by German media as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia who arrived in Germany in 2006, was remanded in custody late on Saturday after the attack in the central town of Magdeburg on Friday night. Magdeburg mourns Christmas market dead Read more Police said on Sunday that prosecutors had pressed charges of murder and attempted murder against Abdulmohsen, an anti-Islam activist who has made death threats online against German citizens and has a history of disputes with state authorities Olaf Scholz calls for unity at site of deadly attack in Magdeburg – video 1:09 Olaf Scholz calls for unity at site of deadly attack in Magdeburg – video Opposition parties on the far right and far left were swift to criticise his government. The far-right AfD’s parliamentary leader, Bernd Baumann, demanded Scholz call a special session of the Bundestag on the “desolate” security situation. The head of the far-left BSW party, Sahra Wagenknecht, said the interior minister, Nancy Faeser, must formally explain “why so many tips and warnings were ignored beforehand”. The mass-circulation daily Bild demanded to know: “Why did our police and intelligence services do nothing, even though they had the Saudi on their radar? … And why were the tips from Saudi Arabia apparently ignored?” Calling for sweeping reforms after the election and a complete “turnaround in internal security”, the paper claimed: “German authorities usually only find out about attack plans in time when foreign services warn them.” Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said on Saturday there was “no doubt that there is a link between the changed world in western Europe, the migration that flows there, especially illegal migration, and terrorist acts”. Orbán vowed to “fight back” against European migration policies “because Brussels wants Magdeburg to happen to Hungary, too”. Reuters and Agence-France Presse contributed to this report