German Terror attack

VincentHanna · 10 Oct 2019 at 15:19

Weird there was no mention of this yesterday on here?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50003759

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49988482

A rather pathetic lone gunman live-streamed himself as he made misogynistic and anti-Semitic comments, drove to a synagogue, but failed to gain entry and ended up killing two people nearby.

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A shooting at a synagogue in the German city of Halle on Monday was a far-right terror attack, said justice minister Christine Lambrecht.

Alleged perpetrator Stephan Balliet had four kilos of explosives in his car, Ms Lambrecht said in a joint statement with attorney-general Peter Frank.

Usually any whiff of a terror attack means a thread is started.

SixTwoSix · 10 Oct 2019 at 15:21

VincentHanna said:
Usually any whiff of a terror attack means a thread is started.

Not brown enough for GD.

What really gets me is that 2K people were watching him stream it live, are people really so disconnected from reality these days.

Admiral Huddy · 10 Oct 2019 at 15:22

Proof that this kind of action is starting to normalise itself within the society we live maybe.

Em3bbs · 10 Oct 2019 at 16:11

Yesterday when I saw the breaking news I was wondering who would start this thread, and I knew it would be either one side or the other of looneys based on when it was announced what race the attacker was. I wasn't disappointed.

Mason- · 10 Oct 2019 at 16:14

SixTwoSix said:
Not brown enough for GD.

What really gets me is that 2K people were watching him stream it live, are people really so disconnected from reality these days.

5 people watched it live. 2000 people rewatched the video, not live.

Twitch, which is owned by retail giant Amazon, said five people had watched the video as it was broadcast live.

The footage remained online for 30 minutes after the live stream, during which time more than 2,200 people watched it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49998284

deuse · 10 Oct 2019 at 16:20

VincentHanna said:
Weird there was no mention of this yesterday on here?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50003759

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49988482

A rather pathetic lone gunman live-streamed himself as he made misogynistic and anti-Semitic comments, drove to a synagogue, but failed to gain entry and ended up killing two people nearby.

Usually any whiff of a terror attack means a thread is started.

"
A thirty-two year-old suspect has been arrested.
Originally from Syria, the man has been living in Germany since 2015, local reports say."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49970807

That was not posted either.

If you live in a city.......

dowie · 10 Oct 2019 at 16:22

VincentHanna said:
Usually any whiff of a terror attack means a thread is started.

Well these islamist attacks are getting to become rather common tbh...

SixTwoSix · 10 Oct 2019 at 16:22

Mason- said:
5 people watched it live. 2000 people rewatched the video, not live.

That'll teach me to skim read. My point stands though, watching via a screen somehow makes it less than real I guess.

Mason- · 10 Oct 2019 at 16:24

SixTwoSix said:
That'll teach me to skim read. My point stands though, watching via a screen somehow makes it less than real I guess.

To be fair the original articles are really vague. The one in the OP just says "over 2000 people watched it on twitch" it's not apparent that only 5 were watching live and the others were watching a replay.

I didn't mean it as a gotcha to you, more just further information for the thread.

Gerard · 10 Oct 2019 at 16:24

Looks to be a very practical weapon.

SixTwoSix · 10 Oct 2019 at 16:32

Mason- said:
To be fair the original articles are really vague. The one in the OP just says "over 2000 people watched it on twitch" it's not apparent that only 5 were watching live and the others were watching a replay.

I didn't mean it as a gotcha to you, more just further information for the thread.

Nah, didn't take it personal. It just saddens me to the state of most people that they can probably watch videos like this with little feeling or empathy.

Mason- · 10 Oct 2019 at 16:33

SixTwoSix said:
Nah, didn't take it personal. It just saddens me to the state of most people that they can probably watch videos like this with little feeling or empathy.

Morbid curiosity is a phrase for a reason. Fairly sure there's a massively popular subreddit on reddit called r/watchpeopledie.

Nasher · 10 Oct 2019 at 16:38

Someone was filming before he even got out of the car and he looks a bit casual. What happened before?

VincentHanna · 10 Oct 2019 at 16:57

dowie said:
Well these islamist attacks are getting to become rather common tbh...

Are they though? Can't remember the last successful Islamic terror attack in Europe - 2017 maybe?

dowie · 10 Oct 2019 at 17:01

VincentHanna said:
Are they though?

Well yes

Can't remember the last successful Islamic terror attack in Europe - 2017 maybe?

Successful as in loads of people killed? Yeah this is kind of the point, the less successful attacks like this one are pretty common to the point where they're just yet another incident.

VincentHanna · 10 Oct 2019 at 17:08

dowie said:
Well yes

Successful as in loads of people killed? Yeah this is kind of the point, the less successful attacks like this one are pretty common to the point where they're just yet another incident.

"Successful" as in any deaths at all.

Nasher · 10 Oct 2019 at 17:11

There are incidents all the time now, the public don't near about most of it. To the point where it's a 24/7 job for many specialist police/security service/defence personnel. Luckily they stop most of them before someone ends up dead.

Johno please? · 10 Oct 2019 at 17:12

VincentHanna said:
Weird there was no mention of this yesterday on here?

Usually any whiff of a terror attack means a thread is started.

Meh, was there a thread about the tunisia suicide bombings in june? Nope.

Theres so many is it really worth a thread every time some religious fascist feels like going to paradise?

redeye · 10 Oct 2019 at 17:14

Halle is just up the road from here. The Police were warning people not to go out because there were rumours a second gunman was driving south. There was a lot of false news and people making stuff up which was rather sad. Not normal for German's.

Yesterday was also the 30th anniversary of the first organised peaceful protests against the GDR which eventually led to fall of the Berlin wall. This overshadowed the whole event, of course also a rather important Jewish day.

This part of Germany has a very difficult past and things are amazingly better. But we now have major problems with the far right, Nazis (real full on) and now this.

Germany actually needs to wake up before this gets worse.

dowie · 10 Oct 2019 at 17:15

VincentHanna said:
"Successful" as in any deaths at all.

The answer again is yes. I mean there was one in Paris just a few days ago resulting in deaths (I think there was a thread about that too), there are plenty of terror attacks in Europe, they mostly aren't too successful, I'd not call this one successful tbh.. given the aims of the attacker and the fact he didn't get to his targets.