German Viernheim cinema complex Shooting

[CloudWalker]

This could swing the EU vote

German Viernheim cinema complex attacker 'dead' - BBC News
A masked man who reportedly opened fire at a cinema complex in western Germany is now dead, German media are reporting.
The man had fired at least one shot at the Kinopolis complex in Viernheim, near Frankfurt.
At least 20 people are said have been injured - many apparently as the result of a release of tear gas in a confined space.
It is unclear how the man died, or if he had taken any hostages.
Heavily armed police surrounded the complex after the incident began around lunchtime.

[xoggoth]

No real info on motive and a bit too late now anyway. Although this (in view of recent CUK thread on US gun control which I can't be arsed to look for) was interesting:

Germany has one of the highest weapons-per-head rates in the world, but one of the lowest gun homicide rates in Europe: 0.05 per 1,000 people, compared with 3.34 in the US.
...
Germany is the only country in the world where anyone under the age of 25 who applies for their first firearms licence must undergo a psychiatric evaluation with a trained counsellor, including personality and anger management tests.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...olis-viernheim

[minestrone]

There is a gagging order in place.

So I think we know what that means.

[darmstadt]

There is a gagging order in place.

So I think we know what that means.

What gagging order? Presumably you follow this guy: https://twitter.com/nextdoorarab (https://twicopy.org/NextDoorArab-600411263/) who seems to be the only person who has mentioned it. Mind you there is a lot of ******* weirdos on the net reporting as everything from a white supremacist to Islamic terrorists...

Only 20km from me and both the local and national press are doing full reporting on it...

Der Täter habe einen verwirrten Eindruck gemacht. Nach einer ersten Einschätzung der Sicherheitsbehörden gab es vermutlich keinen terroristischen Hintergrund. Bei dem Mann habe es sich mutmaßlich um einen verwirrten Einzeltäter gehandelt, hieß es aus Sicherheitskreisen weiter.

[minestrone]

Didn't get it from there. Never seen that account.

[xoggoth]

Only clue so far, from DT, is he spoke "broken German". Prob. Scottish.

Germany shooting: Gunman shot dead by police after cinema hostage attempt

[vetran]

there was probably no terrorist background

hmm.

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

There is a gagging order in place.

So I think we know what that means.

Indeed. If it had been a right wing nutcase I'm sure they'd be all over this like a rash.

[minestrone]

He had a suicide belt on but thought he would put on a mask. Witnesses claim he was between 18-25 but nobody can say if he was non European extraction.

Sounds like bollocks.