In a statement on Saturday evening, Esmaeil Baqaei offered condolences and extended his sympathies to the people who lost their loved ones in the incident and wished swift recovery for the injured.
A driver plowed a car into a crowd at a Christmas market Friday evening in Magdeburg, killing at least two people, an adult and a child, and injuring nearly 70.
The suspected driver, a 50-year-old man from Saudi Arabia, was arrested on the scene. He arrived in Germany in 2006 and had worked as a doctor, local officials said.