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Eleven dead after gunshots in Hanau - Federal Attorney General: Manifesto shows "deeply racist sentiment"

2020-02-20T14:59:50.816Z


Gunfire in Hanau: In a right-wing extremist terrorist attack in Hesse, eleven were killed. Now the Attorney General is giving new details. All information in the live ticker.


Gunfire in Hanau: In a right-wing extremist terrorist attack in Hesse, eleven were killed. Now the Attorney General is giving new details. All information in the live ticker.

  • Probably right-wing extremist, racially motivated terrorist attack in Hanau (Hessen)
  • A total of eleven dead after shots, including the alleged shooter
  • Vigils in the region, including in Hanau and Frankfurt

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+++ 15.12 clock: Attorney General Peter Frank commented in Karlsruhe on the state of the investigation after the gunshots in Hanau . He had drawn the investigation to himself after “a kind of manifesto” had been discovered on the perpetrator's website that, in addition to “confused thoughts”, “absurd conspiracy theories”, above all showed a “profoundly racist outlook”.

The investigation should now clarify whether there were or are "supporters or supporters" for the Hanau attacks, said Frank. For this, the environment in Germany and abroad is checked.

Karlsruhe: Press release by the Federal Prosecutor @GBA_b_BGH on the violence in #Hanau. The #Generalbundesanwalt has taken over the investigation. https://t.co/dilHd44clT

- phoenix (@phoenix_de) February 20, 2020

Gunshots in Hanau: "Such an act does not come from nowhere"

+++ 14.50: Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CDU), Minister of Justice Christina Lambrecht (SPD) and Hesse's Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) have just visited the first crime scene in Hanau and put flowers. "We came to take part in the incredible crime," said Seehofer. He ordered funeral flags all over Germany. For the first time in its history, the Hessian state parliament completely canceled a session. *

Seehofer also commented on the motive from the perpetrator's racism * and said: "Racism is poison that causes confusion in the mind and causes evil to emerge." He announced that there was a need to talk about how to "sensitive facilities." “Can provide better protection in Germany. Lambrecht said that the environment from which such an act could arise must be clarified. "Because such an act does not come from nowhere."

In the afternoon, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will come to Hanau, visit the crime scenes and in the evening take part in the town's vigil on the market square, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. Vigils are planned for today in numerous German cities.

Gunfire in Hanau: Nine dead have a migration background

+++ 2.30 p.m .: The shots in Hanau have killed nine people with a migration background. The confirmed security circles now on press request. In addition, four of the five injured have foreign roots.

+++ 13.55 p.m .: After the shots in Hanau *, according to information from the "Bild" newspaper, a pregnant woman should be among the victims. The 35-year-old was already a mother of two

+++ 13.25 p.m .: According to the Turkish embassy in Berlin, five Turkish citizens were also shot in Hanau (Hesse) . A spokesman for the embassy confirmed a corresponding report by the Anadolu news agency to the dpa. Little is known about the victims of the allegedly far-right, racially motivated attack . Hanau eyewitnesses testified that they knew several young men who were shot to death. They have their roots abroad, for example in Turkey and Bosnia. The families would be in shock.

Gunfire in Hanau: Angela Merkel speaks of a right-wing extremist motif

+++ 12.33 PM: Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) also assumes an extreme right-wing motive after the bloody deed of Hanau (Hessen) . There are "many indications that the perpetrator acted from right-wing extremist, racist motives".

+++ 12.20 p.m .: Among the victims of the probably right-wing radical, racist attack in Hanau (Hesse), several people with Kurdish origin are said to be. This was announced by the Confederation of Kurdistan Communities in Germany, according to the AFP news agency. Relatives of the victims of the fatal gunshots gathered in the Kurdish cultural center in Hanau, where they were assisted by numerous people. The umbrella organization criticized that the "political leaders" opposed "right-wing networks and right-wing terrorism in this country not decisively".

Eleven dead in Hanau - Apparently racist terrorist attack

+++ 11.44 clock: According to Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU), Hanau's bloody deed has a radical right-wing background. After a telephone call with the interior ministers of the federal and state governments, Herrmann confirmed media reports that many of the victims of the fatal gunshots had a migration background.

The alleged shooter, a 43-year-old from Hanau, "shot a number of people who came mainly from abroad". Based on the materials found, one has to assume "that it is a right-wing radical, xenophobic background". The investigation is ongoing on suspicion of a terrorist attack .

Gunfire in Hanau: Attack should have consequences for Mardi Gras

The interior ministers had agreed to want to check whether the upcoming carnival processions and meeting places of migrants should be protected. We know from the past "that such acts can in principle also have copycat acts."

At the moment, the status was that the suspected Hanau shooter was a lone perpetrator. He shot nine people in two shisha bars in Hanau on Wednesday evening, fled home and probably shot his mother there as well. The suspect was also found dead with gunshot wounds.

+++ 11.44 a.m .: The carnival parade in Hanau, which should have taken place on Saturday (22.02.2020), has been canceled due to the terrible events of the past few hours. This was announced by the Hanauer Carnevalszug Verein 1954 eV on Facebook. "We hereby express our deepest sympathy to the bereaved of the victims!" It said.


Right-wing radical terror in Hanau: Many deaths with a migration background

+++ 10.58: Many of the victims of the fatal gunshots in Hanau (Hessen) probably have a migration background . The German press agency found out from security circles. It was initially unclear whether foreign citizens were among the dead.

The federal prosecutor's office is investigating a suspected terrorist attack . The alleged perpetrator, a 43-year-old from Hanau, probably had racist motives . He shot nine people in two shisha bars in Hanau on Wednesday evening. An as yet unknown number of other people were injured by the shots , one of them seriously.

Suspected terrorist attack in Hanau: getaway car towed

Investigators found the alleged gunman dead in his apartment early Thursday morning. His 72-year-old mother's body was also there. Both had gunshot wounds.

The police had found evidence from witnesses on the man's trail. The car he had fled with had been recognized. The vehicle has now been towed. The crime scenes where the gunfire was fired in Hanau, including the suspect's apartment, were cordoned off for the investigation.

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Overview of the crime scenes in Hanau.

© dpa-infografik GmbH


After alleged terrorist attack in Hanau: vigil for the victims

+++ 10.42 a.m .: After the alleged extreme right-wing terrorist attack, grief is great in Hanau * (Hessen). A vigil will be held for the victims on Thursday evening. The commemorative event begins at 6 p.m. in the market square. At the same time, the German Federation of Trade Unions also wants to hold a rally at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt.

+++ 09.59 clock: The state parliament in Wiesbaden has just held a minute's silence for the victims in Hanau. Hesse's interior minister Peter Beuth (CDU) then went to the microphone and gave details of the fatal shots in Hanau , in which a total of eleven people lost their lives.

Accordingly, the alleged shooter is a 43-year-old German citizen who was found dead in his apartment in Hanau on Thursday morning. Beuth confirmed that the body lying next to him was his 72-year-old mother.

Gunfire in Hanau: murder weapon found - suspect is 43-year-old from Germany

Gunshot wounds were found on both deaths. The police also seized the murder weapon in the suspect's apartment in Hanau. The alleged perpetrator is said to have been a sports shooter. He was not known to the state security and the police before the violence in Hanau.

"I strongly condemn the deed. It is an attack on our free society," said Beuth. The prosecutor suspected that it was a terrorist attack .

Evidence of a xenophobic motive had been found on the alleged shooter's website. Previously, the evidence had increased that the act could be an extreme right-wing attack . The perpetrator is said to be Tobias R.

Shots in Hanau (Hessen) were probably right-wing extremist terrorist attack

+++ 09.31 clock: After the fatal shots in Hanau there is officially suspected terror. The Hessian Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) just announced in the state parliament in Wiesbaden.

+++ 08.43 clock: In the meantime, there is growing evidence that the fatal shots from Hanau (Hessen) are a right-wing extremist terrorist attack . The HR, referring to security circles, referred to a YouTube video published a few days ago that was still available on the Internet on Thursday morning.

In it, Tobias R. speaks in fluent English, among other things, that the United States is "under the influence of secret societies" that uses "mind control" to control the people. There are "underground military facilities" where "children are tortured and killed". In the short video - apparently taken in a private apartment - the Americans are encouraged to revolt.

Gunfight in Hanau (Hessen): The perpetrator is said to be 43-year-old from Hanau

ARD terrorism expert Holger Schmidt wrote on Twitter that the alleged shooter was a 43-year-old man from Hanau (Hesse) . The body that was found next to him was his mother.

The (dead) perpetrator from #Hanau is probably a 43-year-old man, the police apparently found his dead mother next to him.

- Holger Schmidt (@terrorism) February 20, 2020

The “Bild” newspaper also reported that the shooter was Tobias R. from Hanau (Hessen) . In his letter, he spoke of the fact that "certain peoples would have to be destroyed whose expulsion from Germany could no longer be achieved".

Gunfire in Hanau: evidence of xenophobic motive after gunfight

Experts also see the fact that the federal prosecutor's office is investigating it as an indication that the fatal gunshots in Hanau are a far-right terrorist attack. According to the AFP, the federal prosecutor's office has "evidence of xenophobic motivation ".

Shots in Hanau: media report of right-wing radical motive

+++ 08.17 clock: According to media reports, the shooter from Hanau (Hessen) may have had a radical right-wing motive for his act. In the confessional letter and the video of the alleged perpetrator, according to the "Bild" newspaper, he is said to have expressed "confused views, many of them right-wing radicals in nature ". This information has not yet been confirmed. The media rely on information from security circles.

The Attorney General already took over the investigation at night because of the special importance of the case. That said a spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe on Thursday, according to dpa.

The alleged perpetrator had killed a total of nine people in two shisha bars in Hanau on Wednesday evening and injured several others. The police later found the man dead in his apartment in Hanau, next to him another body. The shootout triggered a large-scale operation in Hanau, which is still ongoing.

Pictures: Attack in Hanau - Eleven dead

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Gunfight in Hanau (Hessen): Confession letter and video found

+++ 07.33 clock: Apparently, after the fatal shots in Hanau in Hesse, a letter of confession and a video appeared. The German press agency (dpa) reported, citing information from security circles. The "Bild" newspaper had reported first.

The documents on the Hanau shootout were now being evaluated, the motive of the alleged shooter was initially still unclear.

The suspect was found dead in his apartment in Hanau on Thursday morning, next to him another body. Previously, he is said to have killed nine people by gunfire at two shisha bars in Hanau. The first shots were fired around 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday (February 19, 2020).

The horror of the serious violent crime with a total of eleven deaths is great. The Federal Government has also recently spoken out. "The thoughts are with the people in #Hanau this morning, in the middle of which an appalling crime was committed," government spokesman Steffen Seibert wrote on Twitter. "Deep concern goes to the families affected, who mourn the loss of their dead."

Claus Kaminsky, Mayor of Hanover in Hesse, also commented on the fatal shots . On Facebook he wrote: “My thoughts are with the families and friends of the victims. My heartfelt condolences to you. "

Eleven dead after gunshots: school and daycare center closed after gunfight in Hanau

+++ 06.59 clock: Due to ongoing investigations into the fatal gunshots in Hanau (Hessen), the Heinrich-Heine School and the Kita Kinderburg West as well as the Kinderhaus West remain closed today (February 20, 2020), the city of Hanau announced. The facilities in the Kesselstadt district are just a few meters away from Kurt-Schumacher-Platz, one of the crime scenes.

In the shooting in Hanau, which Merkur.de also reports *, nine people were killed on Wednesday evening. The police, who were operating with a large contingent, found two more dead in an apartment in Hanau early Thursday morning. One of the dead is said to be the alleged shooter . The background of the shootout is still unclear. The investigation is proceeding swiftly.

Gunfight in Hanau: Police set up server to report deadly shots

+++ 6.43 clock: After the fatal shots in Hanau (Hessen) , the police have set up a server in Southeast Hesse, on which witnesses can provide pictures, videos and information. She asked not to distribute videos, voice or text messages from unknown sources on the Internet and social networks. "Speculation doesn't help us any further," it said on Twitter.

A total of eleven people died in Hanau on late Wednesday evening and early Thursday morning. The police speak of a shootout . Shots were fired at Heumarkt and Kurt-Schumacher-Platz. According to media reports, two hookah bars were attacked. An official confirmation from the police is still pending. Nothing is known about the victims' identities. The alleged gunman was found dead in an apartment in Hanau, next to him another body. According to the police, there are currently no indications of other perpetrators.

❗ Important information ❗

A server for #notes has been set up. #Witnesses who have taken pictures, video recordings or other observations, please use the following link:

➡https: //t.co/IidWEpqCxZ

Thanks for your help! #Hanau

- Police Southeast Hesse (@Polizei_soh) February 20, 2020

Gunfight in Hesse: A total of eleven dead after fatal shots in Hanau

+++ 05.50 am: The suspected perpetrator of Hanau is dead. Police officers would have found two more bodies in an apartment early Thursday morning. Among these, there is a high probability that the perpetrator was a police spokesman. There is no evidence of further perpetrators.

According to testimony to an escape vehicle, police officers had entered an apartment in the Kesselstadt district, the spokesman said. The two dead were discovered there. The investigation into her identity has not yet been completed. For the time being, the police also gave no information about the other new deaths.

❗ #Update after # shootout in #Hanau ❗

The alleged perpetrator was found lifeless at his home address in #Hanau. Special police officers also discovered another body there.

The investigation is ongoing.

There are currently no indications of other perpetrators.

- Police Southeast Hesse (@Polizei_soh) February 20, 2020

The police in Hesse initially stated the number of dead after the shootout at eight, in the morning at nine. In addition, police said several people were injured by gunfire .

+++ 01.50: According to information from vorsprung-online.de, the police arrested a suspect after the shootout in Hanau (Hesse) . It is unclear whether this is the perpetrator. In general, the situation reads as if there were several suspects. The investigation is ongoing. The helicopter is no longer circling over Kesselstadt.

Shots in Hanau: Eight people die in a shootout in Hesse

+++ 00:50: What we have been reporting for a long time has now been officially confirmed: Eight people were killed at the Hanau shootout. The police announced that now. Several people have also been injured. The search for the perpetrators is in full swing.

+++ 00.41 clock: According to the HR, three people were killed during the bloody deed in Hanau in the hookah bar "Midngiht" on Heumarkt in the city center and five people in Kesselstad t on Kurt-Schumacher-Platz. According to initial reports, there has also been a killing in the Lamboy district. However, this information was not confirmed.

Hanau: Drama! Eight dead and many seriously injured after gunshots

+++ 00:19: The police commented on the bloody deed in Hanau for the first time. Accordingly, the police confirmed for the first time five seriously injured people in Hanau - one of them at the Heumarkt in Hanau, five are said to have been seriously injured at Kurt-Schumacher-Platz. So far there is no mention of people killed in the communication. There is said to have been at least one shootout. The shots at the Heumarkt in Hanau are said to have been fired around 10 p.m. According to the police, they came out of a dark car.

The police immediately initiated a large-scale search, and the criminal police started the investigation.

Hanau: Shots in front of Sisha bars: Many victims in the shootout

+++ 00:04: According to the RTL night journal , the victims of the Hanau shootout were standing in front of a shisha bar. They are said to have been shot from a moving car.

+++ Wednesday, February 19th, 2020, 11:57 p.m .: The terrible act of blood in Hanau (Hessen) has cost many people their lives. According to information from the Bild newspaper, at least eight people have died. The prosecutor also confirmed to the Bild newspaper that there were five seriously injured. According to information from Stern-TV, the bloody deed is a killing spree. An official confirmation is still pending. The perpetrators are probably still fleeting. The police helicopter is still circling over the Kesselstadt district after the shootout.

+++ 23.37 clock: The terrible bloody deed in Hanau (Hessen) new details come to light every minute. As the Hessenschau reports, there were at least two shootings in shisha bars. The first shootout is said to have taken place in a shisha bar in the city center. According to initial information, several people are said to have been killed there.

Bloody deed in Hanau: shootout! Many people die from gunshots

Then the perpetrators are said to have gone to the Kesselstadt district. According to initial information, there was another shootout with several deaths. The alleged shooters are still roaming freely. A helicopter is still circling over Kesselstadt. How many victims there are is still unclear.

+++ 23.06 clock: The shots in Hanau (Hesse) were fired at Kurt-Schumacher-Platz , a central square in the Kesselstadt district. There is currently a large contingent of police and emergency services on site.

Hanau: Drama in Kesselstadt - Several people die in a shootout

So far it is unclear why the shooting took place in the Hanau district of Kesselstadt . According to the first information, several people are said to be dead, others are injured.

+++ 23.06 clock: Hanau - fatal shots in Hanau : In the district of Kesselstadt, several people were killed in a deadly conflict.

#mkk Breaking news: Several dead in a shootout in Hanau https://t.co/JTHTEe0S6y via @ VORSPRUNG2

- LEAD (@ LEAD2) February 19, 2020

Hanau: Lethal shots fired from moving car

According to the portal vorsprung-online.de, the shots were fired from a moving car. There were several injuries. A helicopter circles after the gunfire in Hanau above the Kesselstadt district.

We update the article continuously

By Christian Weihrauch and Alexander Gottschalk (with agencies)

A gunfight took place in Hanau a few years ago. One person was seriously injured, reports op-online.de *.

Ten people were shot by a man in Hanau. The alleged perpetrator has also died. There are indications of xenophobic motives. A chronology of events.

* op-online.de and merkur.de are part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

List of rubric lists: © Boris Roessler / dpa

Source: merkur

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