Yesterday, German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, condemned the racist "poison", hours after the killing of nine people, among them many of Kurdish origin, with German bullets that motivated "xenophobia", in the shootings of two hookah cafes in the city of Hanau near Frankfurt.
"Racism is poison, hatred is poison, and this poison is in our society, and responsibility for many crimes falls," Merkel told reporters, referring to a series of crimes and attacks committed by new Nazis in the 2000s, the killing of a pro-immigration politician in June, and the attack on a synagogue. Two people were killed last October.
Earlier, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he stood with "all the people threatened by racial hatred", expressing his horror at "terrorist violence in Hanau".
The county interior minister, Peter Booth, said that the potential shooter, whom German media identified as Tobias R. A, a 43-year-old German, was found dead yesterday morning in his apartment next to his mother’s body, referring to “a motive Xenophobia.
On Wednesday evening, the Midnight Shisha Café was targeted in downtown Hanau, which is about 100,000 people, 20 kilometers from Frankfurt, before the shooter moved in a car to the Arena Bar, in the Court-Schumacher-Platz in the neighborhood. Kesselstadt.
Reports stated that the attacker entered the second cafe and shot those in the smokers' corner, killing five, including a woman, according to Bild newspaper, which added that the dead were of Kurdish origin. The death toll rose from eight people initially killed to nine, following the death of a person from his wounds. The investigated public prosecutor, especially counter-terrorism affairs, undertook the investigation, asserting that it possessed “elements that support the hypothesis of the xenophobic motive.” Among the dead were "many victims of Kurdish origin," as the Confederation of Kurdistan Groups in Germany announced, accusing German leaders of "not resolutely combating extremist right-wing terrorism." According to sources close to the investigation, a message of confessions and a video were found. Peter Newman, a terrorism expert at King's College, in London, said the message was "24 pages long" and reflected "xenophobia and non-whites".
In Brussels, many leaders expressed their solidarity with Angela Merkel, before the opening of the European summit.
A potential German shooter, 43, was found dead yesterday morning in his apartment next to his mother’s body.