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Germany: what we know about the two shootings in Hanau shisha bars

2020-02-20T06:45:42.913Z


At least 9 people were killed Wednesday evening. The alleged perpetrator was found dead at his home.


Two shootings erupted Wednesday evening in Hanau, near Frankfurt in central Germany. Nine people were killed and several others seriously injured. The accused was then found dead at his home. Here is a point on what we know about this terrible evening.

What happened ?

The first shooting targeted a shisha bar, the Midnight, in the heart of Hanau, a city of around 90,000 inhabitants. Police say at least one person was seriously injured at the first site at around 10 p.m. Witnesses, quoted by local media, reported hearing a dozen shots. According to local media reports, three people are killed.

The alleged perpetrator then left this first site by car in the direction of Kurt-Schumacher Platz, in the district of Kesselstadt, according to the police. According to information from Bild, the shooter rang the doorbell of a second establishment, the Arena Bar, and shot people present in the smoking area, killing five people including a woman. An initial assessment of the authorities mentions "at least five seriously injured".

The first shooting took place near a shisha bar in the center of Hanau, then a second establishment was targeted 2km to the west. A "huge manhunt" underway to find the shooter (s) pic.twitter.com/Bt5nsaEQej

- Philippe Berry (@ptiberry) February 20, 2020

What do we know about the victims?

"At this stage, the police can only confirm that eight people have been fatally injured," authorities said in a statement overnight. A seriously injured person died Thursday morning, reporting the killings to nine killed, according to a spokesperson.

Dude a guy in my little hometown Hanau Germany started shooting and already killed 7 people wtf is happening take care of each other guys !! #hanau #kesselstadt #amoklauf #mainkinzigkreis pic.twitter.com/72V7s8LUgH

- EmrePTV (@EmrePtv) February 19, 2020

According to Bild, victims are of Kurdish origin. "The victims are people we have known for years," responded the bar manager's son, quoted by the DPA agency. Two employees were among the victims, according to this witness, absent like his father at the time of the shooting.

What do we know about the author?

A person suspected of being the author of the massacre was found dead a few hours later, alongside another unidentified body.

“The accused was found lifeless at his home in Hanau. The police special intervention forces also discovered another body there. The investigation continues. Currently there is no indication that there are other perpetrators, ”police in the southeastern state of Hesse, where Hanau is located, wrote on Twitter.

❗ #Update nach # Schießerei in #Hanau ❗

Mutmaßlicher Täter wurde leblos an seiner Wohnanschrift in #Hanau aufgefunden. Zudem entdeckten Spezialkräfte der Polizei dort eine weitere Leiche.

Die Ermittlungen dauern an.

Aktuell gibt es keine Hinweise auf weitere Täter.

- Polizei Südosthessen (@Polizei_soh) February 20, 2020

Investigators also found his car, which contained ammunition and magazines, local media said, adding that the suspect was licensed to hunt and is said to be German.

What would be the motive?

The motive for these attacks is not yet known, said a police spokesman. Germany has been targeted in recent years by several jihadist attacks, one of which killed 12 people in the heart of Berlin in December 2016. But it is the threat of far-right terrorism that most worries the German authorities. , especially since the murder of a pro-migrant German elected member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's party last June.

On Friday, 12 members of a far-right group were arrested as part of a massive counterterrorism investigation. They are suspected of having planned large-scale attacks on mosques on the model of the author of the attack on Christchurch in New Zealand, who in March 2019 had killed 51 people in two mosques by filming themselves live. They were taken into custody.

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In October, a right-wing extremist Holocaust denier had attempted to carry out an attack in a synagogue in Halle, a massacre being only barely avoided. Unable to enter the religious building in which the faithful had barricaded themselves, he had shot a passerby and the client of a kebab restaurant, broadcasting his packages live on the Internet.

Eight neo-Nazis in Dresden, in the former GDR, have also been on trial for almost five months for planning attacks on foreigners and politicians.

The association Ditib, the main organization of the Turkish Muslim community in Germany, has asked for more protection for its faithful who "no longer feel safe".

Source: leparis

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