A gunman stormed hookah bars in Germany, killing 9 people of foreign descent in what police say was a racially motivated terrorist attack. Along with his body, police discovered in his apartment a video message and manifesto strewn with racial diatribes.
The latest German right-wing racially motivated attack, in which nine people of foreign descent were slain by a gunman storming three hookah bars, has deeply unsettled a nation with tight gun-control laws which has long struggled to come to terms with its Nazi past.
The body of the gunman, identified in German media reports as Tobias Rathjen, was found early Thursday morning in his apartment along with the body of his 72-year-old mother, who was also shot dead.The Turkish Embassy in Berlin said five of the murdered were Turkish citizens — members of a Turkish community of about 3 million living in Germany.
“There were signs of deeply racist sentiment found” on the video message and manifesto, Frank told reporters.In June a local political leader in Merkel’s conservative party, Walter Luebcke, was shot in the head by a right-wing extremist after he had repeatedly expressed his support for her decision in 2015 to allow in more than a million refugeesIn October, a shooting attack on a synagogue in the city of Halle in left two dead.
The Hesse state interior minister, Peter Beuth, told reporters that there was “definitely a racist motive” behind the shootings. a mile to the Arena café-bar and shot to death another five people at about 10:30 p.m., according to authorities.Special police commandos stormed the apartment at 3 a.m., where they found the two dead bodies.
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