Reiterate for our viewers at least 10 people dead in the town of her now here in germany if youre just joining us now at the top of the hour german chancellor Angela Merkel has described today as a sad day for germany she also condemned what she called to the poison of hatred in German Society have a listen. To early to say what the background its off this incident. And i was able to shed light on what happened and we understand the full perpetrator how. Far right motives xenophobe motives. People if. You. Will immigrating to make sure that hate is a poison that exists in our society. And we have Team Coverage of this incident we begin here in the studio with our correspondent hans from we will also go to the fields where our reporters just setting up right now hans what more do we know at this hour. Well maybe we should just reconstruct a little bit exactly what happened last night the 1st shots were fired at around 10 oclock last night in the city of hama which is not far from frankfurt and southwestern germany and the shots were fired all inside a bar probably a she show who could in other words where people go to to smoke communities smoke water pipes at that place 4 people were killed 2 on the streets 2 inside the bar the perpetrator then got into his car and drove about 200 to 2 kilometers to another location where he killed and additional number of people in total 9 people were killed he then fled again in his car to his apartment and the car in fact was seen by several witnesses that is how the police managed to trace him and then in fact the raid his apartment in the early hours of the morning when they broke into the apartment they found the body of this person and his mother he appears to have killed his mother before killing himself hes a 43 year old man from han all from the city of german origin he grew up there and went to school there trained in the banking world all in some sort of financial fear. Disappeared appears to be the work that he. But generally speaking he was not somebody that was on the radar of the police not somebody that was suspected of having these kinds of right wing extremist sentiments not somebody that one expected to commit such a crime and now the city of homs is coming to terms with this horrific attack this morning lets bring in our correspondent who is standing by in that city who has been following the very latest developments art what are you hearing and what are you seeing. Our of turkish origin and theyre very frustrated about what has happened here about the fact that one of their own. Citizen from this from this city would do such a thing against people just because they are of a different ethnic at this city and so theyre there theyre beside themselves they they theyre frustrated theyre frustrated with the government especially they told me that they dont think it doesnt it doesnt matter at all which party rules its always going to be the same and they never really going to get tough with right wing extremists and thats what they want now really tough laws rule and outlawing right wing extremism out ruling outlawing parties outlawing individuals who and putting them in jail if they if they even try to create such pandemonium and death and destruction so theres frustration here theres sadness here and the Police Investigation behind me goes on big time with the 3 forensic investigators every word on this street in buildings and and everyone is trying to piece together exactly what happened the sequence of events the chronology of what happened that might also help them get an insight into into the mindset of this perpetrator ok so a sense of frustration there on the streets also a call to action for authorities hands id like to turn to you now because of course there are laws on the books against right wing extremism especially in a country here like germany which has reflected on its past and some of the darkest hours in fact of its past so what are authorities doing oh yes you have to say that in germany for instance just a swastika using a swastika in a political context is prohibited is forbidden that in itself would be regarded as a right wing crime in germany and in fact one has to say that these kinds of crimes spraying of swastikas on tombstones attacking people because they are wearing a keep. Attacking people because of the color of this because they look foreign in some way. All of these kinds of incidents have been increasing in germany in recent times and also such serious crimes as the one that just just happened have also been increasing in the last year or so there have been 3 murders that have been committed as a result of right wing extremism the authorities have been accused of being slow in taking up the seriousness of right wing incidents but in recent months recent weeks one recent weeks and months one has to say thats something has begun to move the interior minister in germany has said that he is creating 600. 00 additional posts for policemen and people in the Domestic Secret Service domestic considerations service who are going to concentrate solely on rightwing extremist networks right wing extremist. Possibilities possible perpetrators and there is also i think a sense that within the police possibly Police ForcesSecurity Forces the military there might be people of right wing persuasion and there is some attempt to trace people in state and Police Security structures and to remove those people from those positions i mean either we must mention that the authorities have confirmed this is being investigated as terrorism but the german chancellor also qualified that and said that it is too early to say the background of the incident although it it seems as if all indications seem to point in the direction of a right wing extremist terrorist attack art and like to bring you back because the city of her now now now coping with this this morning just tell us a little bit more about where it is that you are standing right now because we see that that tape for example behind you. What exactly transpired where you are right now in the wee hours of last night. Right well im in the Downtown Core of of hand now and basically theres a lot of sports bars here and fast food joints and its a place also where you can have obviously its a place where you can have some fun a little bit of a few betting parlors etc and im standing in front of the cordoned off area cordoned off because this is where the 1st attack. Took place and if you see that cream colored building over to my right here actually were a little bit off camera now but in way over to my right theres a cream colored building and thats where the 1st person was shot on the sidewalk and then the perpetrator went into the farther down the street there into the sports bar and then shot 2 people there and then continued towards his car and shot another person on the sidewalk his car was down on around the Street Corner in front of the pharmacy there and then he took off at parent lee and then went to the other area where he continued his shooting spree shooting 5 people there before ending his life and supposedly his mothers also so 11 people all together 4 here 5 at the other bar or bar area i should say and then the shooter himself and his mother so that is what happened here of course when the 1st attack took place here one eyewitness told me that he ran out he has. A bar here also on the corner with 21 people not like the other bar there where there are only 2 and one reason perhaps the shooter had to come to this area is because he was a Champions League night of soccer were there was a german team playing also leipsic and perhaps he thought that thered be a lot of people in these bars and instead of going to the one where there were 21. 00 people he went to the one where there were only 2 so. Its a tragedy that those people died but imagine if there were a lot of people in there and dead. It used to be and for some reason its not as popular as was before in any case so all together for here 5 at the other place and then the shooter and his his mother so people are very upset about this because i mean this this shooter is supposedly one of their own maybe not of turkish descent or kurdish descent hes a german. But you know these people grew up together here right prince and native germans and it seems to be fine they they they dont comprehend this i mean this place has a bit of a crime problem theres a drug problem here too but you know and there was the occasional knifing and things like that but for someone to do a mass murder here they never thought of that so a city very much grappling with how exactly this could happen arent thank you so much for the reporting of youre going to stick with us but but 1st wed just like to contextualize this now because there have been other right wing extremist terrorist attacks in germany in recent years with a possible right wing motive at hand in the now as weve mentioned we just want to look at the greatest incidents of recent years and then well discuss thereafter. For many in germany this woman is the face of far right terror in the country beata sheep i was convicted in 2018 found guilty for being part of the n. S. U. The terror group behind a killing spree that shocked the nation. Together with bernhard and. She toured the country in this camper van killing 10 people between 2002007 almost all of victims were of turkish descent. She has surrendered to police after her accomplices committed suicide barely a year after shapers conviction germany was rocked by another murder linked to a far right extremist a man with a string of convictions for violent anti migrant crime confessed to shooting a local politician for the governing c. D. U. Party at his home after he defended germanys refugee policy volatile became the target of rightwing vitriol. Last october a 27 year old tried to force his way into a synagogue in the eastern city of howler with the intention of staging a bloodbath on yom kippur war the holiest stay in the jewish calendar. 20 failed to break into the synagogue he killed 2 people in a rampage through the city. The perpetrator live stream the attack on a gaming website. And just a week ago Police Arrested 12 men across germany suspected of membership in a Group Planning a series of attacks on mosques in up to 10 different Cities Police seized a pistol and a homemade shotgun. Officers also found chemicals they believe the men were planning to use to make explosives. While back with our Political Correspondent here in the studio so i mean this most recent attack and now its not coming out of nowhere does germany have a right wing problem right now you have think what one has to say that it does that the and that can be kind of proven by statistics obviously the German Domestic Intelligence Service keeps such records how many rightwing attacks there have been how many crimes of from the right wing spectrum how many people possibly involved in the talk is about a 1000 via crimes of violence per year or something between a 11500. 00 per year in other words this is more than a day the occurrence in some form over or another were talking about things such as assault and people of color sorts of people of jewish faith. People who look foreign in some sense or another attacks on the offices of a black m. P. For instance these kinds of things beyond that there are other crimes regarded as politically motivated from a right wing spectrum and those are about 12000. 00 per year so were talking about a very active scene of right wingers in germany and the German Authorities have in fact been accused recently in the recent years of having been blind to right wing terror because they have couldnt concentrate of their efforts on preventing islamist terror and possibly also looking at left wing organizations i think this has indeed changed the german interior minister has announced that he is employing 600. 00 additional policemen and analysts both in the Intelligence Service and in the federal police to concentrate exclusively on right wing extremists structures. And the awareness in society as a whole and the call. Certain society as a whole especially also on a political level i think has risen significantly recently you mentioned the political level which brings us to the far right a f d where do they fit into this equation because we know in the most recent federal election they made major gains theyre now the Largest Opposition Party in the bundestag how do they fit into this is the right wing populist the alternative for Germany Party they have been very successful especially in the eastern parts of germany but also as you say in the central problem and they are the Largest Opposition Party in all and they are accused by many of the other parties in fact all of the other parties in fact stoking these fires of encouraging racism of encouraging the attacks on people with a migrant background it is part of their policy to say that immigration should be stopped that people who have migrated to germany have come to germany in recent years should be expelled again should be sent sent outside germany and so on so there is a sense that in some ways its become politically acceptable to express racist sentiments because this Political Party base is part of its political success on exactly such statements if you look at how the Party Representatives reacted to this today. Leader of the party on these vital woman simply said well we have to think about the victims and this was a terrible murder crime without giving it any political perspective at all coleader you say it to regard this as a right wing extremist crime would be incorrect it is simply the attack by somebody whos the range who has lost his mind as it were the fact that he left behind a right wing political statements very very extensive ones he feels should be ignored and then there are pos of the party who. Say well responsible for these kinds of things until america with immigration policy and so on we heard from the german chancellor walk us through what she had to say well i took some time to assess the situation obviously this has been going on since last night and weve only got his official statement from her at midday today and while she also obviously 1st of all the victims and their families expressed support of the german state for these people for their families condolences and sympathy and she also said that while the exact motive of what happened of how these. Murders were committed last night is not clear yet the perpetrator did have rightwing sentiments and she talked about the fact that there was a poison of racism that was visible in German Society that this racism had poisoned the minds of people in germany and that this needed to become about to transplant our Political Correspondent youre going to stick around thank you so much for your analysis of this attack. And earlier i spoke with john 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 he could tell us about that. 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 doubt of the great placement 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 the very growing actually some sort of 2011 and of course refugee crisis in 2015 has gained more ground because a lot of people feel vindicated. By users they see this is proof were of were being invaded and are forward these are allowing it and this is. Aside from a lot of the more conspiracy theories this is essentially do the red line to thread. Messages both in britain and you have video messages online. Can you expand on this idea of sparking a race for. Yes well thats thats the idea of the the great replacement there is that to avert this 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 try to live upon this but i think i was a little christchurch with. Complexity to solve. A lot of the 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 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 do you mean you mentioned militias that implies some level of organization in 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 are especially in the new face which is very important because a big mistake by a lot of western florida is that its very Prominent German news that we tend to use former and then its called 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 conserved actually have very active mobs online get support from a lot of people have a very well established that work 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 was 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 down in fact 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. Well the connection is the fact that more and more people are getting involved in these groups and more and more people are willing to act. On a lot of these ideas and grievances and the fact that we see these groups formally organizing or Whatsapp 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 all i think is symptomatic of a broader situation where we would be very polarized society within societies where the political discourse focuses very much on fear and people react to this and i think were sort of some of the side effects of this focus on security and people with so this would be a link between militias and. Young st pierre a security expert and counterterrorism adviser joining us there from frankfurt thank you so much. 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