Germany to raise police presence after racist shooting

A photo is placed between candles and flowers at a monument after a vigil for the victims of the shooting in Hanau, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. A 43-year-old German man shot and killed several people at several locations in a Frankfurt suburb overnight in attacks that appear to have been motivated by far-right beliefs, officials said Thursday.

A 43-year-old German man fatally shot the victims of immigrant backgrounds in the Frankfurt suburb of Hanau on Wednesday night before killing his mother and himself. The man, identified as Tobias Rathjen, left a number of rambling texts and videos espousing racist views and claiming to have been under surveillance since birth.

The attack came amid mounting concern about far-right extremism reflected in earlier attacks and the rise of the anti-migrant party Alternative for Germany, or AfD. A top official in the center-left Social Democratic Party, a junior partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition, accused AfD of providing ideological fodder to people like the Hanau shooter.

AlanSalehzadeh Nothing to do with right-extremism, mental illness only.

--both fascists and communists are cut from the same cloth-- There is NO SUCH THING AS RIGHT AND LEFT

Why is there never the same uproar when it’s islamo-terrorism Something funny going on...

America stands with you Germany. For us, the call is coming from within the White House.

O muslims in Germany, the time has come for you to wake up from your sleep, remove the garments of dishonor, and shake off the dust of humiliation and disgrace, for the era of lamenting and moaning has gone, and the dawn of honor has emerged anew. The sun of jihad has risen.

Why do you avoid calling it 'extreme right terrorism'? Do the perpetrators have to be Muslim for you to speak of terrorism?

God be in control

First time they've cracked down on the far-right since they let Hitler take control of the country

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