The Idar-Oberstein murder shocked all of Germany.
There is great fear of those who refuse to take aggressive action against corona measures.
Many employees no longer dare to say anything.
Berlin / Idar-Oberstein - A few days ago a 49-year-old man shot and killed a 20-year-old student who was working at a gas station.
The gruesome murder in Idar-Oberstein caused astonishment across the country.
After the young man had warned the 49-year-old about the mask requirement when buying beer, he is said to have shot the student in the head.
Murder in Idar-Oberstein: headshot for wearing a mask - the perpetrator radicalizes himself online
According to investigators, the suspect testified that he rejected the corona measures.
As for the motive, he stated that the situation of the corona pandemic was a heavy burden on him.
He felt pushed into a corner and "saw no other way out" than to set an example.
The victim seemed to him "responsible for the overall situation, since it had enforced the rules," said Chief Public Prosecutor Kai Fuhrmann.
The perpetrator and the victim apparently did not know each other.
The anger in the 49-year-old man must have built up a long time ago.
The police are already investigating the detainee's activities on social media.
There he spread conspiracy theories and wrote in September 2019: “I'm looking forward to the next war.” He also followed several accounts from the right-wing and the lateral thinker milieu.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer also blamed the AfD for the act.
Murder in Idar-Oberstein employs employees - those who refuse to take action are often aggressive
Although it is an individual act, it has consequences for thousands of employees in Germany. Since the beginning of the Corona measures, be it mask compulsory or distance rules, employees in retail or in gastronomy have had to deal with those who refuse to take measures. Many have already shown themselves to be aggressive, and after the murder, the fear of those affected continues to grow. One of them is 25-year-old Elif Inan, who works as a temporary worker in a supermarket in Berlin. In an interview with
Focus-online
, she spoke about her day-to-day work. There are so many people who would not wear the mask properly. "Usually the mask then hangs under your nose."
The murder in Idar-Oberstein preoccupies her: “At first I thought: Oh my God.
The victim was about my age.
A young person who, like me, worked as a temporary worker to earn some extra money.
The whole terrible incident affected me very much. "
Supermarket employees are often attacked: "I find it shocking"
But she also thought that the act was foreseeable: "I was pretty sure beforehand that there would be violent riots with regard to the Corona rules at some point.
Every day I see how irritable some people are to the regulations.
That it turned out to be a murder is of course all the more shocking. "
She herself quickly realized that admonitions for those who refuse to wear a mask or who wear it incorrectly are of no use.
“When I speak to the customer, they quickly walk two steps and then pull the mask back under their noses.
Or they become insulting, ”says the 25-year-old.
One man even responded to her request with: "No, you f *** e."
In Aurach in Bavaria, women without corona masks recently insulted the post office staff and refused to leave the shop.
Owner Iris Zwicklbauer is now concerned.
Because of mask refusers: Supermarket employee goes to work with a queasy feeling
She cannot understand why some people react because of such small restrictions: "I always find it shocking how these people are ready to let the situation escalate completely because of trivialities and simple rules." The murder of the petrol station employee influences them in any case: “I don't go to work anxious, but definitely with a queasy feeling.
The danger has definitely come a little closer. "
Employees have also reported on Twitter that their bosses warn them to leave mask refusers alone, as the danger is not worth it.
“We notice an unbelievable basic level of aggressiveness in these discussions.
I mean, you get attacked physically and verbally anyway.
Spit on, for example.
I don't want to be shot in the head, ”writes one user.
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