A 50-year-old man from Saudi Arabia identified as Taleb A drove into the Christmas market in Magdeburg with the death toll rising to five.

Musk called for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to "resign immediately" in response to an attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg.

The tech billionaire who has already made a name in American politics offered his endorsement following a deadly German Christmas market attack.

Elon Musk was blasted by German and U.S. lawmakers for backing a German far-right political party on X, formerly Twitter on Thursday.

Musk’s tweet was promoting another tweet from Naomi Seibt a German climate change denier who rose to prominence as the anti-Greta Thunberg. Seibt has also promoted conspiracy theories and been accused of being antisemitic, according to the Guardian, a claim she denies.

Elon Musk has criticized Germany for allegedly refusing to extradite a Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, the Saudi national accused of the deadly attack that occurred at a German Christmas market on Friday in Magdeburg.

Musk has been amplifying right-wing, anti-immigration voices on X for years and has already questioned criticism aimed at the AfD back in June. In September 2023, he denounced Germany for giving money to charities and rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.

Musk was roasted on his own social media platform by a political scientist, a fellow billionaire and many others.

The controversial billionaire and increasingly close confidant of President-elect Donald Trump is now sticking his head into Germany's elections.

Elon Musk has spent the week derailing a bipartisan funding bill, sending the U.S. government hurtling toward a shutdown. But on Friday, the tech billionaire broadened his scope from domestic to international politics with a ringing endorsement of Alternative for Germany, the country’s far-right political party.

Musk said that ‘only the AfD can save Germany’ in a post on X on Friday night that provoked widespread backlash from politicians at home and overseas