Bloody deed in Hanau - companion of the gunman confesses: "Knows that we have many questions now"

Terrible blood night in Hanau (Hessen): Eleven people lost their lives. Now there are new details about the suspect. All information in the news ticker.

• In Hanau (Hessen) there was a bloody deed with eleven deaths.
• The alleged perpetrator has left a letter of confession.
• His motive was initially unclear - but apparently it is supposed to be a radical right-wing act.

Update from February 21, 6.10 a.m .: The alleged gunman from Hanau had been a member of the Frankfurt shooting club "Diana Bergen Enkheim" for several years. The club chairman has now spoken to Focus Online .

He last saw Tobias R. in early 2019, explains Claus Schmidt. "I am shocked, sad, angry. I have absolutely no words. My sympathy is with the survivors of the victims, the many people here. It is terrible what happened, ”says the chairman.

What Schmidt is aware of: "Of course, I also know that we have a lot of questions to answer." But it is insignificant compared to the great suffering that the shooter has caused. Xenophobic slogans have never been heard from Tobias R. in the club, “not even regular table slogans ”. Upon request, Schmidt could not say whether a certificate of good conduct was available for the suspect.

In response to the bloody deeds, for the time being, all shooting training is canceled, says Schmidt, who emphatically clarifies with regard to Tobias R.: “In these circumstances, the word comrade is forbidden. Such a man cannot be a comrade. "

Hanau: Details of the alleged perpetrator - he apparently filed a complaint before the bloodbath

8:06 p.m .: According to initial findings by the investigators, the alleged gunman from Hanau had no criminal record. The federal prosecutor's office also announced on Thursday that there were no political proceedings against him. Further findings from the previous investigation: The 43-year-old apparently shot nine people between the ages of 21 and 44 on Wednesday evening. These are foreign as well as German nationals.

The suspect and his 72-year-old mother were found dead in an apartment after the crime. A firearm was lying next to the bodies. The father of the alleged shooter was reported to be unharmed. According to the German Press Agency, the federal prosecutor does not list him as a suspect.

It was also announced on Thursday afternoon that the alleged gunman from Hanau had received a gun license in 2013, according to the responsible district authority. Tobias R. therefore apparently owned his weapons legally, he was a sports shooter. The first weapon was registered in 2014, said a spokesman for the Main-Kinzig district on Thursday in Gelnhausen. Finally, two weapons were entered in the gunner's gun ownership card. In his club, the 43-year-old was considered unremarkable. The permit was checked in 2019. According to the authority's knowledge, the alleged perpetrator did not have a hunting license.

Hanau: A school and two daycare centers remain closed on Friday after the attack

7:24 p.m .: After the act of horror in Hanau, a school and two daycare centers are to remain closed on Friday. The reason for this is the ongoing police investigation in the Kesselstadt / Weststadt district, the city administration announced on Thursday. The Heinrich Heine School, Children's Castle West and Children's House West are affected by the temporary closure. An emergency service had been set up in a daycare center in the immediate vicinity. The lessons at the Heinrich Heine School will then start again next Wednesday after a previously planned break over Carnival. The school and the two daycare centers were closed on Thursday.

6:22 pm: Among the nine victims of the Hanau attack is a Bulgarian citizen. The Bulgarian authorities announced on Thursday. It had previously been announced that five Turkish citizens were among those killed. According to information from an umbrella organization of Kurdish communities in Germany, several deaths of Kurdish origin.

Hanau: Authorities are said to have known about Tobias R.'s conspiracy theories since November

4.48 p.m .: As reported by Bild.de, the authorities are said to have known about the conspiracy theories of Tobias R. since November last year. Because the alleged gunman apparently already wrote to the Attorney General Peter Frank in November. He is said to have submitted a "criminal complaint", the picture is available. In the letter of November 6, the suspect is said to have officially “filed a complaint against an unknown secret service organization”. In addition, he is said to have requested from the authority "that you approach me and communicate with me" is quoted from the advertisement at Bild.de

Tobias R. is said to have described himself in the letter as a “normal citizen”. He was neither an intelligence officer, nor had he ever worked for an intelligence agency. However, according to Bild.de, the suspect has information that "thousands of German citizens are being monitored by a secret service". The alleged perpetrator is also alleged to have claimed that there are people "who are able to read another person's mind and who are also able to latch onto it and to some extent carry out some kind of remote control".

Hanau: Tobias R. is said to have filed a criminal complaint with the Federal Attorney General

Tobias R. is also said to have sent a warning to Attorney General Frank. The latter would, in the case of investigations, "most likely mess with an organization that is currently the most powerful in the world. I have pointed out to them which manipulation methods are to be expected. ”Furthermore, the text of the criminal complaint, which according to Bild.de comprises 19 pages, should also contain large passages of the farewell manifesto. Tobias R. is said to have published this manifesto on the Internet before his terrorist attack.

15:39: Federal Attorney General Peter Frank summarized the previous findings on the victims and the suspect of the attacks in Hanau on Thursday afternoon. According to Frank, nine people with a migration background were shot . There are also six other injuries , including one seriously injured . Now it should be determined whether the alleged perpetrator had supporters or supporters, said Frank. The Federal Criminal Police Office had been charged with the investigation . The perpetrator's environment and domestic and international contacts would be checked.

The attorney general also reported that the suspect left “video messages and a kind of manifesto” on his website. In addition to "confused thoughts and abstruse conspiracy theories, these showed a deeply racist outlook" .

The Hanau incident is part of other right-wing terrorist attacks in recent months. You can read a terrifying chronology of right-wing terror in Germany at Merkur.de *. On the occasion of the terrorist attack in Hanau, ZDF will also be broadcasting a special TV program on May May at 10:45 p.m. of Maybrit Illner. The topic of the program with a view to Hanau: "Right-wing terror out of control?"

Hanau: According to Attorney General Peter Frank, suspect has a "deeply racist outlook"

3:12 pm: According to Attorney General Peter Frank , the gunman at Hanau is said to have had a “ deeply racist outlook ”. That was the result of the evaluation of video messages and a kind of manifest on his website, Frank reported on Thursday in Karlsruhe.

2:56 p.m .: The alleged perpetrator from Hanau , Hesse used to live in various places in Bavaria. According to Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU), the 43-year-old German lived temporarily in Upper Franconia and in Upper Bavaria . "Most recently, he was probably in southern Bavaria in 2018," said Herrmann on Thursday in Friedberg in the Augsburg district. At the time, however, there was no evidence that the man was an extremist.

14:24: There are apparently new findings on the victims of the devastating attack on several shisha bars in Hanau : The news channel n-tv claims to have learned from security circles: All nine killed had a migration background. Four of the five people injured by the perpetrator also had "foreign roots". There is no official confirmation yet.

Hanau: a pregnant woman among those killed?

2:04 p.m .: The picture claims to have received a shocking detail about the victims of the bloody deed in Hanau : According to the sheet, there was also a pregnant woman among the people killed. So far, little is known about the nine victims of the shooter - but apparently five Turkish citizens and “several” people of Kurdish origin lost their lives.

1:42 pm: Hanaus Lord Mayor Claus Kaminsky (SPD) appeals to the cohesion in the city after the allegedly racially motivated attack. "We will do everything humanly possible to maintain our grown togetherness. We do not allow destruction," Kaminsky told journalists on Thursday.

Kaminsky spoke of a " great wave of solidarity " that had reached the city. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) expressed her sympathy on the phone. "The last few hours are among the most bitter hours this city has ever had in peacetime," said Kaminsky. The city has decided to end the carnival celebrations for this year.

Hanau: Apparently five Turkish citizens among the dead

1.30 p.m .: According to a report by the Turkish news agency Anadolu, five Turkish citizens are among the fatalities in Hanau. The state news agency referred to the Turkish ambassador in Berlin Ali Kemal Aydin on Thursday.

The Turkish foreign ministry in Ankara has since condemned the "villainous attack" in Hanau. He was a "new and serious impact of growing racism and Islamophobia". It was time to stop such attacks. "

12.12 p.m .: The shock is deep in the people of Hanau . After the horrific act of blood in Hesse, one of the victims is said to have spoken on Turkish TV. As reported by rtl.de , Muhammed was hit on the shoulder. Before that, he was hiding behind a wall. Muhammed was in the arena bar, the second bar that was attacked in the evening. He is said to have told the broadcaster A Haber : "First five to six shots were fired from outside, then the shooter came in."

The alleged perpetrator is said to have shot everyone he saw - around a dozen people were said to have been in the bar on Wednesday evening. Muhammed initially fell on the floor: "The boy who was below me had a hole in his throat," he continues. Apparently he couldn't breathe properly. "I told him to say his last prayer," said Muhammed.

A woman at a crime scene in Hanau. She puts down a mourning candle.

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Hanau (Hessen): Father of the alleged perpetrator apparently questioned - Kurds among the victims

12.05 p.m .: According to the largest Kurdish umbrella organization in Germany, there are several people of Kurdish origin among the victims of the Hanau bloody deed.

This was announced by the Confederation of Kurdistan Communities in Germany on Thursday. Relatives of the victims of the "right-wing terrorist attack" gathered in the Kurdish cultural center in Hanau , where they were assisted by numerous people.

Hanau: bank robbery triggers the bloody deed? Right-wing terror in Hesse - First details on fatalities

11:57: After the bloody deed in Hanau on Wednesday evening, there is more news. As reported by rtl.de , the police apparently questioned the father of the suspected perpetrator about the act. He is said to be unharmed and to have known nothing of the crime. According to RTL information, the man is politically active - at the local association Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . The offender's 72-year-old mother is dead (see below).

Meanwhile, carnival and carnival events throughout Germany are canceled. Among other things in Munich, as reported by tz.de * .

11:51 am: Chancellor Angela Merkel will comment on the terrible events in Hanau at 12.15 pm. We report in a separate article in the live ticker.

11.33 am: While the investigators continue to evaluate the confessional letter, the car of the alleged perpetrator Tobias R. examined. It is feared that explosives have been placed on it.

The alleged perpetrator's getaway car is towed away.

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At op-online.de * there are more backgrounds to the terrible bloody deed of Hanau. Chancellor Angela Merkel has already responded.

11:12: Several videos of the horror night in Hanau * are now circulating on the Internet. The oppressive footage quickly shows how dramatic the situation on Wednesday evening was.

10:57: According to the initial findings of the security authorities, many people with a migration background are among the fatalities of Hanau . At first it was not known whether foreign citizens were among them. The German press agency learned this on Thursday from security circles.

10:51 am: On Thursday at 6:00 p.m., a funeral service is to take place at Marienplatz in Hanau , as Mayor Claus Kaminsky (SPD) announced. In the meantime, flowers have been laid near the crime scenes and candles have been lit.

Mourning in Hanau.

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10.40 a.m .: In a YouTube video published by the suspected Hanau offender Tobias R. , he clearly addresses the American population: "Wake up," he says again and again. The video ends with the words: “Fight. Now. "-" Fight. Now."

Meanwhile, further details about the person are revealed. On his homepage, which is no longer available, Tobias R. wrote that he was born in 1977. He apparently grew up in Hanau , went to school there, graduated from high school and later did his civilian service. After all, he is said to have completed an apprenticeship as a banker, apparently afterwards he studied business administration in Bayreuth.

Hanau: Right-wing terror in Hesse - Was a bank robbery the trigger for the bloody deed?

10:22: It is now known that the alleged perpetrator is supposed to be a 43-year-old man from Hanau . So far, he was neither known as xenophobic nor did he appear to the police, as Hesse's Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) announced.

As it became known in the morning, the perpetrator is said to have been a bank clerk himself. According to the picture , the man was one day the victim of a bank robbery . He reported that in his confessional letter.

Afterwards he would have had to go through a file at the police station in order to recognize possible perpetrators. Then he noticed that almost everyone in this file was non-German. It was clear to him that something had to be done.

During the interrogation, he then noticed that the suspects could be foreign citizens . Was this past event the trigger for the terrible act on the evening of February 19?

Hanau: Right Terror in Hesse? Shisha Bars Shots - Eleven Dead Confirmed

9.46 a.m .: According to Hesse's Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU), one person is still seriously injured. There are also an unknown number of other injuries. The deeds are said to have occurred in shisha bars. According to current knowledge, it is the case that the alleged perpetrator was a sports shooter.

9.35 a.m .: Hesse's Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) has now confirmed: The Federal Prosecutor's Office sees suspicion of a right-wing terrorist act ”. In addition, the mother of the alleged perpetrator is among the dead. Find out more in our ticker from the Hessian state parliament.

Meanwhile, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel, Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) has also canceled an appointment because of the violent crime in Hanau . A spokesman for his ministry said the minister would be represented by a state secretary on Thursday at an appointment in Berlin, which deals with digitalization in administration. Seehofer wants to be kept informed about the latest developments in the case.

Hanau: Suspected perpetrator had recorded confessional video

9.25 a.m .: New insight into the suspected perpetrator of Hanau: The man apparently spread an extensive collection of explanations and worldview theories on the Internet before the violent crime. In a video that lasted almost an hour, he claims, among other things, that Germany is controlled by a secret service with extensive capabilities. He also comments negatively on migrants from Arab countries and Turkey , as the dpa reports.

9.20 a.m .: Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) has canceled a planned visit to Halle in Saxony-Anhalt because of Hanau's bloody deed. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Thursday on the Internet service Twitter. "The Chancellor is continuously informed about the status of the investigations in Hanau ," continued Seibert.

Merkel had wanted to visit the Leopoldina National Science Academy in Halle. According to Seibert Minister of State Henrik Hoppenstedt (CDU), this appointment will now be made.

Chancellor #Merkel cancels her trip to the Leopoldina in Halle because of the murders of #Hanau. Minister of State Hoppenstedt will represent her there. The Chancellor is continuously informed about the status of the investigations in Hanau.

Hanau (Hessen): After shots at shisha bars - Federal prosecutor sees "signs of xenophobic motivation"

9.15 a.m .: Now it's official: The investigators see signs of a right or extreme right background to the bloody deed of Hanau . After the fatal gunshots, the federal prosecutor's office investigated "evidence of xenophobic motivation". The authority took over the investigation because of a "special importance of the case", said a government spokesman on Thursday in Karlsruhe. The federal prosecutor initially did not provide any more precise information.

Meanwhile, Hesse's Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) comments on the events. In a separate ticker, we will keep you up to date on its classifications and findings.

8:46 a.m .: All of Germany is in a stiff state. Meanwhile, further details seep through: According to the picture , the alleged perpetrator had a hunting license.

8:41 am: Another image reporter speaks of incredible details in a live broadcast. There were so many cartridge cases flying around that he found one in a car even the morning after.

8.29 a.m .: In the meantime, it became known that the Attorney General had already taken over the investigation at night because of the special importance of the case. For Mayor Claus Kaminsky, it was one of the worst nights Hanau had ever experienced in peacetime. A leaden mood had spread in the city.

Hanau (Hessen): terrorist speaks about shots in shisha bars - mother of the perpetrator also dead?

8.25 a.m .: Terrorist Peter Neumann explains in an interview with the picture : "I believe that Germany has a problem. But that's not just a problem in Germany. You have to see that in an international context, it's a new movement. Most people get information from the Internet. They build an ideology from individual pieces. ”According to Neumann, the perpetrator put together a“ manifesto ”. It almost sounds a bit like the "Reich Citizens' Scene" - also because of various conspiracy theories.

8.09 a.m .: It should now be clear who was found dead in his apartment next to the alleged perpetrator. According to the picture , this is Tobias R.'s mother .

According to the picture , the messages left behind are "confused views". The man spoke of erasure and cleansing. The perpetrator himself is said to have been a banker - one day he was apparently the victim of a robbery. According to Bild reporter Frank Schneider, he reported this in his confessional letter.

After the robbery, Tobias R. would have had to go through a file at the police station in order to recognize possible perpetrators. Then he noticed that almost everyone in this file was non-German. It was clear to him that something had to be done.

24 pages and at least two videos are currently to be evaluated. There should be no evidence of other perpetrators. Five people are currently said to still be in mortal danger.

Hanau: Bloody deed in shisha bars: perpetrator leaves gruesome message - right-wing terror in Hesse?

8:01 am: According to information from security circles, the suspected perpetrator of Hanau published a video on YouTube a few days before the crime. In this video, the man speaks in fluent English a " personal message to all Americans ". The clip, which was still available on the Internet on Thursday morning, was obviously recorded in a private apartment and was put online a few days ago.

In it, the man says there are underground military facilities in the United States where children are mistreated and killed. There the devil would be paid homage. American citizens should wake up and "fight now" against these conditions. The video does not contain a reference to an impending act of violence in Germany. The motive of the crime with a total of eleven dead initially remained unclear.

Hanau / Hessen: Bloody deed in shisha bars - the perpetrator leaves a gruesome message

7.45 a.m .: Is the motive of the perpetrator clear? As the picture wants to know, a man named Tobias R. is said to be the gunman of Hanau . According to the paper, from his confessional letter it follows that "certain peoples would have to be destroyed whose expulsion from Germany could no longer be achieved". The existence of the letter has been confirmed by the authorities - but the content has not yet. It has not yet been confirmed whether this is actually a right-wing radical motif.

7.33 am: According to information from security circles, a letter of confession and a video were found in Hanau after the night of death. Both are now being evaluated, the motive is still unclear, it said on Thursday morning. First the picture (see below) reported about it.

Hanau / Hessen: Horrible bloody deed: Eleven people die - Did the perpetrator leave a confession video?

7.16 a.m .: A man from Hanau reports to the picture about further details about the shots. "It is incredible what happened," he said during the night. He was 46 years old and had known the fatalities all his life. "We all know each other here in Hanau," he added.

Meanwhile, more details leak out. As the picture further reports, the alleged death shooter left a confessional letter and a confessional video. Hanaus Lord Mayor Claus Kaminsky said to the newspaper: "An evening that can not be imagined worse."

The undated satellite image provided by Google shows the crime scene Hanau-Kesselstadt (left) and the crime scene Hanau-Heumarkt.

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Apparently, the shooter is said to have rung the doorbell at the door of the shisha bar on Heumarkt. According to the picture, the fatal shots were fired in the smoking area - five young people, including a woman, are said to have lost their lives in the process. According to the picture, the victims include Kurdish people. However, a background to the fact remains unclear.

Horrible bloody deed in Hanau / Hessen: Eleven people die - video shows police officers on duty

6.54 a.m .: Videos are already circulating on Twitter about the terrible events in Hanau . One shows armed police officers, an ambulance and several men standing on the street with their hands raised.

At the moment there are 8 9 dead and several injured in a killing spree. My condolences to the families .. #Hanau pic.twitter.com/dnv08SkxHT

Meanwhile, n-tv reports more details. Many questions are still open, for example: Who is the dead person who was found in the apartment with the alleged perpetrator? The police had not yet given any information - not even about the gender. On the other hand, it was clear that for reasons of investigation tactics one did not want to reveal too many details.

6.40 a.m .: After the fatal gunshots in Hanau , the federal government has now spoken out. "The thoughts are with the people in Hanau this morning, in the midst of which a horrific crime was committed," government spokesman Steffen Seibert wrote on Thursday morning on Twitter.

"Deep sympathy goes to the families affected, who mourn the loss of their dead," he added. Seibert expressed the hope that the injured would recover soon.

The thoughts are with the people in #Hanau this morning, in the middle of which an appalling crime has been committed. The affected families, who mourn the loss of their dead, are deeply sympathetic. We hope that the injured will recover soon.

Horrible bloody deed in Hanau / Hessen: Further fatalities confirmed - police make horrible discovery

6.17 a.m .: After the terrible events of Wednesday evening in Hanau , further details are gradually released. On Merkur.de * you can read what is currently known and what is not. There you will also find depressing pictures of the crime scenes. At op-online.de * you can also find out everything about the horrific bloody deed.

5.54 a.m .: There are now further details on the terrible bloody deed in Hanau, Hesse. Apparently, eleven people died on Thursday night. There were initially eight deaths before the number was increased to nine.

As the police announced on Twitter, the alleged perpetrator is also dead . Officials 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.

❗ #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.

Hanau: Gunfire in Hesse - eleven people are dead

The police initially stated the number of deaths as eight, in the morning as nine. In addition, several people were injured, police said.

But what happened there in Hesse late Wednesday evening? According to the police, the following details are known to date. At around 10 p.m., a perpetrator attacked a shisha bar on Heumarkt - in the west of Hanau . As the police reported, several guests were shot.

Subsequently, a dark car is said to have fled the scene, a short time later other people were killed in the Kesselstadt district further west.

According to the current state of knowledge, eight people were fatally injured in the shooting in #Hanau.

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Horrible bloody deed in Hanau / Hessen: Eight people dead after shots in shisha bars - police are puzzled

First report of February 20, 5.42 a.m .: Violent act in Hanau, Hesse: After shooting two shisha bars, eight people are dead - five more are injured. The background is still completely dark. The police cordoned off the area around the two crime scenes extensively. The perpetrator (s) are still on the run early in the morning, the police are still in large-scale operations. At the moment it is only known the number of victims and that there were two crime scenes - only around two and a half kilometers apart.

Most recently, the deadly attack in Halle shook people in Germany. Terrible tragedies have also recently occurred in Berlin, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

* Merkur.de, tz.de and op-online.de are part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network

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