Involved in groups that were preparing this kind of violence but at the same time you have to see it to say that the political situation in germany is such that right wing sentiment is growing has been growing and that the number of attacks the number of people that are prepared to be involved in such attacks the number of right wing extremist groups that are organizing themselves has increased significantly at the same time one hears criticism again and again for instance voiced today by the Jewish Organization the council of Jewish Organizations in germany that the authorities so far have not taken. Enough note of rightwing terror that they have concentrated the n. T. Terror organization there into terror activities against muslim organizations and possibly against far left wing terror suspects but that the right wing has not really been in their focus enough that i think is changing and now in this particular case apparently federal prosecutors have have been brought in order to handle the investigation what does that say to you well federal prosecutors in germany only take on such cases if there is. A significance that goes beyond the region in which the attack took place and of those beyond the federal state of where this attack took place it has to be an attack that has potential of attacking the german state as it were and the fact that the federal prosecutor has taken over this case is an indication that the oath or treat this as an act of terrorism what more do we know about the alleged perpetrator is a 43 year old man from hano from the city where this attack took place he was born there he went to school there he studied somewhere outside tal and he was someone who was involved in some way in the financial business e describe himself as a Banking Expert on his personal website. And it seems that he did have a very very meager social life as some of the Security Experts who have allies his writings and his videos in the last few hours have said that he is someone that can be reckoned to be an insult as this group of white men the socalled involuntary celibates the white young men or not so young men who do not have contact with women who feel that they have been pushed aside by women who do not have really a relationship pseudo dont have a proper social life and see he seems to have been someone like that lived with his mother whom he killed last night as well seems of how his social life mainly online mainly in. Some sort of. Conspiracy theory kind of circles in the internet what are the authorities you think going to be focusing on as we move forward we have to think except we have to reckon that the several hours ahead of us then a lot more than we know at the moment they know for instance a ball of his right wing sentiments since sometime during the night when they raided his flat his apartment and found his body in the body of his mother so theyre trying to follow up these leads theyre trying to see which chat rooms he was involved in were kind of organizations or groups of people he was in contact with in the internet online whether any of them aided him helped him in this attack whether they knew about this attack and for instance did not warn the of authority so theyre trying to find all out what exactly the context was in which he committed this crime and whether there are other people there that need to be prosecuted that need to be addressed that they need to be questioned and theyre very careful about letting out any of this information so that possible other people involved are not warned given warnings so that they can kind of hide the truck so withdrawal and as that work is taking place weve actually had some reaction from the state from the or has that is the german state where he now is located he has expressed his condolences to the families and friends of the victims im going to listen to what he said and then get reaction. Todays the day of mourning a day of horror so please understand that we are all also on a very personal level trying to come to terms with what has happened. In summary i would like to say that the thoughts of all the people of the state of has with the victims and hano and with their relatives and maybe this empathy or comfort to them this is most difficult. To. Make this empathy offer comfort to them lets bring back our correspondent art so see who is standing by for us and now in the field there are those words likely to offer comfort to the people that youve been speaking with are well thats the most the government can do at this stage until they get to the bottom of this and did someone perhaps mess up and not see signs was this person more active than we think we dont know yet but other people appreciate any kind of any kind of condolences and support moral support that they can get here because they are extremely upset extremely shocked that Something Like this could happen this was just not on the radar screen of anyone i mean this its a city that has its problems but i mean its a city that provides life and homes and friendships and relationships between people and and they go to a sports bar where they think theyre going to have some fun and watch a Champions League game and not dream that somebody is going to come in and shoot up the place so are tell us a little bit more about this town then and about the people that youve been speaking with there what youve been seeing out on the streets. Right right well its a blue collar town it has some industry especially the Chemical Industry and it also has a big tire factory here from dunlop and and basically you know its the salaries are high so a lot of these are are semi skilled jobs and there are some skilled jobs too but a lot of people have 2 jobs just to make ends meet and pay the bills things like that but i mean its a very functioning city has a high immigrant population to 1st and foremost from turkey people from turkey who came here already sentence of turkish immigrants then from the former yugoslavia and then more recently syria afghanistan and ethiopia as was explained to me by one taxi driver so i mean thats the background but i mean people got along i had one gentleman though with us actually 2 what had partial witness to what had happened he told me that hes of turkish descent but he grew up here occasionally you would encounter someone whos had too much to drink and then they would tell him what they thought of him but i mean you let it go he told me he said just it wasnt a big thing and he never really experienced a big problem ever in his 38 years at least 38 years old so he it is a shock to everyone that Something Like this could happen on a mass slaughter a mass shooting and we will be getting reaction reaction to that from the german chancellor im told shortly in fact arent thank you so much for your reporting were back here with hans now Angela Merkel expected to speak any moment now reacting to this what do you think we will hear from the german chancellor also from most of the reactions have been fairly rich a sense of giving this a political. Perspective obviously there are a lot of reactions like the one weve just seen from the local state. Offering condolences to the families of the victims the woods. Sympathy these of come from pretty much everyone from the government spokesman for instance very early this morning already about the question of whether this was a terror attack whether there was a right wing motive behind it that is something that many politicians have think fairly careful not to talk about at the moment until there is certainty from the investigative authorities that this is being confirmed more recently in all the german president for instance. Has talked of a terror attack in hanoi and offered his condolences to the victims. Of the social democrats have also talked about terror attacks about rightwing tera and so has the left polity. Whats interesting then is to look at the reaction on the right of the political spectrum because we do have a populist right wing party in parliament in germany the alternative for germany the f. T. And their reaction has been somewhat more. Cagey i think one might say one leader of the party has simply is expressed condolences and talked about the fact that its terrible that people were killed here the other leader of the party has said to call this a right wing attack is incorrect because he feels that the perpetrator simply was someone who was out of his mind who was the range to and therefore one should not attribute right wing sentiment to him despite the fact that all of these statements videos and so on are available as a testimony to his right wing sentiment there is a political debate on the level of german Political Parties that i think is starting to get going and its quite possible that that can turn out to be a little bit more intense than it has been so far and we will see if or how the german chancellor Angela Merkel addresses that in just a few minutes from now in fact we hear about level. 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I mean german chancellor Angela Merkel speaking about the attacks in high now at the senate and in the can you hear me mention this is a very sad day for germany and. For everybody. The loved ones the families of those who lost their lives it is impossible for us to understand what happened to these families have pain and we can only offer all condolences to all those. In the families and loved ones i hope so but i think those condolences will give you a little bit of hope and strength own soul hold those images will be able to go beyond the physical injuries as well as their mental scarring there was a terrible incident i have been informed of what happened there nono no last night spoke to our interior minister ill say of whole followed justice minister. The interior minister and the. During the. European council. I have been and will be informed on the state of the missing people those injured also spoke to the president may about this terrible incident it is too early to say what the backgrounds of this incident will who are there was to shed light on what happened and we understand that the perpetrator how. Far a. Motives xenophobia motives. People if. All the. Immigrant nature got paid is a poison that exists in our society it is the reason for many talks by the end as you go. Right down to the modus in the federal government on all the state institutions for the right its on and the side. With. The. Humbleness of all people in germany we are against every saying im all for that in nature and we will do our utmost to counter these incidents thank you for listening. You have been listening to the german chancellor Angela Merkel speaking there addressing this far right extremist shooting 11 people dead in germany in the city of the now which is near frankfurt in the country has brought to our Political Correspondent with us here in the studio to talk a little bit more about what Angela Merkel had to say she offered her condolences she also said that this sort of far right hate. Is a poison in German Society tell us more supposing the German Society should Say Something about the society has to defend itself against i think what she is a gloating here is that this far right sentiment has been spreading in German Society that there have been. A number of incidents then there would in the past that this kind of. Rightwing persuasion is something that many many germans seem to or people in germany seem to be attracted to when i say many im talking about thousands maybe tens of thousands not millions but the fact remains that there are almost daily incidents of right wing violence in germany not many of them turn out to be as violent as what we have seen in recent in the last 24 hours but there are almost regular almost daily attacks on people of color on people of jewish or muslim faith. The sentiments of this poison of racism that she was talking about that is something i think many people in germany compass can see in their daily lives im she also mentioned that its too early to say exactly the background of the incident i mean very clearly do you know deferring to the fact that the investigation is still underway and that we dont have all of the pieces of the puzzle yet but but do tell us hans for viewers who might just be joining us right now what what do we know well as far as the i mean she did say that the alleged perpetrator a 43 year old man from that. City of hama where this happened he was born and bred there as it were this was his home turf he did to leave a very substantial written statement online on his personal website in german apparently in a very educated well written german which reflects his right wing conspiracy theories hes talking about his idea that foreigners are being brought in to germany and other western countries in order to push push back the. Indigenous population as it were the people that are living there to replace as it were germans with foreign as he talked about a Conspiracy Theory that germany was in fact somehow controlled by powell was behind the scenes that nobody can see and in a video that he posted on you tube just a couple of days ago he was speaking english apparently pretty good english even though with a strong german accent addressing himself to americans to the United States and alleging that theyre true they were Sinister Forces that were Controlling Society and people there should pick up the fight against these Sinister Forces tell us a little bit more about what has been happening in the country in the past months in the past year especially because this is also something that we just heard her reference in her statement this i think the concern about right wing extremism has been growing in germany most recently one has to say within the last just week or so. A whole network of right wingers was. There were a dozen people arrested across germany who had who were belonging who belonged to a network that had been planning attacks in germany attacks on synagogues attacks on mosques attacks generally to cause chaos and the idea behind that is to. Kind of. Kind of see. Of a war against basically against racist motives against people of immigrant or foreign background in germany. This is the most recent thing a dozen people from a network of right wingers that were arrested. More. A little bit further away in october there was a fatal attack on a synagogue in the city of hala a right wing on yom kippur tried to get into the synagogue failed in fact to get in and then killed people on the street in front of the synagogue and then there was. The murder of a conservative politician. Someone from going back of own Party Regional politician who had expressed some support for integrating migrants into German Society this was enough for him to have been killed by a rightwing terrorist cell phones what are authorities doing. There are theres a lot of criticism of authorities in fact in recent times expressed today as well for instance by a jewish spokesperson for Jewish Organizations in germany who said that until recently German Security or thora trees were somewhat blinds to right wing terrorists and that they were concentrating their efforts on. Islamist attacks or maybe even on saw leftwing. Terror over there followed a feeling violence this is change the interior minister has recently announced that he will employ 600. 00 additional people within the federal Police Service within the. Domestic Security Service of the mistake Intelligence Service but specifically to fight against right wing groups to fight against right right wing extremism and there is also an increasing awareness that such people may well be present in the military in germany in the Police Forces in germany theres a greater much greater sensibility to these possibilities and i think one can expect that the earth orators will be a lot more alert to signs of such things happening within the german state ok hans thank you so much hans fronts there stand by youre going to stick with us in fact for this special coverage that we are bringing to you here from news a just to recap what we have been following for you a suspected far right terrorist has shot dead at least 10 people here frankfurt here in germany the suspect opened fired at 2 who called bars in the town of homs he is said to have later killed himself and his mother their bodies were found at an apartment in the town the suspect has been identified as a 43 year old German National he left a letter admitting to carrying out the killings and also posted a video on you tube expressing racist and other extremist views federal prosecutors are treating the king. As an act of terrorists. And earlier i spoke with yon st pierre who is a security expert and counterterrorism advisor in frankfurt i asked him about the letter and the video of the alleged perpetrator and what more he could tell us about them. He goes to a very different ways. Most different theories but the core message is essentially one that is used in a key Conspiracy Theory out of the great replacement that there is a Huge International conspiracy to replace western people from their own lands by an influx of migrants and this theory has been very growing actually since 2011 and of course the refugee crisis in 2015 has gained more ground because a lot of people feel good indicated. By use of this theory they say well see this is proof they were of were being invaded and our fortys were allowing it and this is. Aside from a lot of the more frivolous conspiracy theories this is essentially a red line to thread. Messages both written and video messages online. Can you expand on this idea of sparking a race for. Yes well thats thats the idea of the great replacement there is that to avert just great replacement people will need to stand up and try and resist and by any means necessary and in this case we did this is the idea that to go back to trying to live on this breivik i was invoking christchurch with. Complexity to solve. A last year this is the idea that authorities can no longer be trusted with the defense of this socalled homelands and such as citizens and people who believe in the true values of the country must end up must rise up and defend their country and this is the been tolerated as also fueled a lot of the. Militias that have been slowly growing across germany over the last one or 234 years you mean you mentioned militias that implies some level of organization and fact behind these montrose these ideologies so tell us i mean when we look at this individual attack or the one in one now last night what sort of clues are you looking about with regard to his preparation and what would have been necessary for this level of attack could he have been acting alone. I look at i look at 2 aspects that especially the new face which is very important because a big mistake by a lot of western florida is that its very common in germany is that we tend to use former and then old School Templates to assess a terrorist attack and that a template does not involve or imply in the General Social life and what weve seen over the last few years is that a lot of these socalled loners that you would assume that. Would be considered lone wolves actually have very active lives online get support from a lot of people have a very well established network and this is where i would be looking to see this guy is did not act alone he actually had various ways a lot of support and then the other way around this ok whats the you know a lot of terrorist activity in areas that with which theyre familiar with this means the key question is where and how did they get there but this is the main issue so those 2 elements are probably key to finding out how everything went on ok and for those who have been following the news here in germany in fact in the past week perhaps we can just remind people you know it comes at this this attack its coming after raids were conducted on potential far right militia here in germany last week do you see any connections here just to listen on whats going on. While the connection this is the fact that more and more people are getting involved in these groups and more and more people are willing to act violently on a lot of these ideas and grievances and the fact that we see these groups formally organizing using a. Group or Facebook Group as well as classical more and more isolated figures like the perpetrator of last nights attack coming together and acting on their own i think is symptomatic of a broader situation where we would