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Two people were killed in the middle of the street in Halle, East Germany, in a shootout of which one of the alleged perpetrators was arrested. Shots included targeting a Turkish restaurant.
Two people were killed in the middle of the street in Halle, a city in eastern Germany, in a shootout of which one of the alleged perpetrators was arrested. The shootings targeted a Turkish restaurant, while according to the daily Bild the shooting would have taken place also in front of a synagogue and a grenade would also have been launched, this day of Yom Kippur in a Jewish cemetery nearby. The whole neighborhood was cordoned off and Halle Central Station was closed.
Halle images with a man in military fatigues firing in the street. https://t.co/7As4zCcH24
Pascal Thibaut (@pthibaut) October 9, 2019" A gunman was wearing a helmet and military clothes ," said a man, who was inside the restaurant, on the NTV news channel. He threw a grenade on the premises. The grenade crashed on the door and exploded. The man then shot at least once in the store, the man who was sitting behind me had to die. I hid in the bathroom and locked the door .
«New brown RAF»
The attack comes just months after the death in Hesse of Walter Lübcke, an elected leader of the conservative party of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). The main suspect is a member of the neo-Nazi movement.
Germany is facing " a new RAF, a brown RAF, " writes the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung , referring to the far-left terrorist group Fraction armée rouge, active between 1968 and 1998. More than 12,700 right-wing extremists considered dangerous are identified by the authorities.
German authorities are also on the alert after several jihadist attacks in recent years. The deadliest was in December 2016, when a Tunisian, Anis Amri , ran into a Christmas market in Berlin with a stolen truck, killing twelve people.
(with AFP)