eight deadThat was the balance of the massacre caused by a seven-month-old fetus and a former member of the organization, including the aggressor himself. Jehovah’s witnesses In a temple of that religious community in Hamburg. The attacker was a 35-year-old man with no criminal record and no gun license, and he unloaded his pistol nine times and finally pointed at himself and commit suicide.
Despite signs of suffering, his gun license was not withdrawn. mental disorders, said Hamburg Police chief Ralf Martin Meyer, appearing before the press this Friday, the morning after the massacre. It is also being investigated whether he left behind a year and a half voluntarily by clashing with the congregation he was a member of.
its victims four men and two women Fetus 33 to 60 years old and 28 weeks old. All German nationality and they all died as a result of the bullets. Eight people, including six women and two men, were seriously injured. One of the injured women is Ugandan and the other is Ukrainian.
The Hamburg massacre shook a group that generally enjoyed a fairly discreet existence in the country. The building in which Philipp F. advertised himself in media outlets such as the tabloid “Bild” or the weekly “Der Spiegel” was a three-story building in the Gross Borstel district, a place in the south of Hamburg and far from the center of Hamburg. your airport.
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It all started when, a few minutes past nine in the night, a neighbor in the area recorded with his cell phone how someone entered the temple or Kingdom Hall. there was onefifty people gathered for one of the community’s weekly religious services. Neighbor claimed to have heard twenty-five shots in a row inside the temple, then a long silence. A few minutes later he heard a single new report; Philipp F. committed suicide.
By that time a special police commando from the neighboring district of Alsterdorf had arrived at the scene and entered the building. Over the next half hour, more special police force units from both Gross Borstel and Alsterdorf and Eppendorf arrived in the area, trying to rule out other attackers or someone fleeing. Although the neighborhood continued to be warned, it was almost midnight. avoid going out Via the police account on Twitter.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are recognized in Germany as: religious community and has around 170,000 members. Although they do not share certain rules and institutional structures, they respect the laws of the country without conflict with the State. The main focus of the conflict is denial of compulsory military serviceIt cost them persecution during the times of the Third Reich and problems with justice under the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Totalitarian internal structures are attributed to them, causing them to be viewed with hostility or at least suspicion, but there are usually no major social conflicts between community members and their fellow citizens.