Posted on 06/24/2016 4:44:06 AM PDT by Cronos
An armed and masked man has been shot dead by German special police officers after storming a cinema complex in Viernheim, in the Hesse region.
The gunman had taken several hostages, all of whom escaped uninjured. A number of people inside the cinema were lightly injured when police deployed CS gas, reports said.
Police said they had no indication of the motives of the man who entered the Kinopolis complex at about 3pm local time, shortly after the start of the first screenings of the day.
..One of the hostages, identified by Bild as 16-year-old Almir Almilovic, was quoted as saying: “The perpetrator surprised us on the toilet. He hissed to us: ‘Lie down if you care for your lives!’ We were around 17 hostages.”
..German police’s special response unit closed off an area around the cinema complex shortly after the incident began. Initially, there were media reports that up to 50 people had been injured.
According to the press agency DPA, police believed the gunman was a “confused individual” rather than a terrorist.
Germany has one of the highest weapons-per-head rates in the world, but one of the lowest gun homicide rates in Europe: 0.05 per 100,000 people, compared with 3.34 in the US.
Incidents of gun crime, including the use of weapons to threaten people, have declined by almost a quarter since 2010, a trend that many experts put down to gun law changes after a string of high-profile shootings, including the killing of 15 people at a school in Winnenden near Stuttgart in March 2009.
Germany is the only country in the world where anyone under the age of 25 who applies for their first firearms licence must undergo a psychiatric evaluation with a trained counsellor, including personality and anger management tests.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Are they certain that he was not just part of a German street performance group?
Why hasn’t the gunman been identified. I can only thing of one reason.......
Almir - Muzzie word for Prince
he’s the hostage though, not the perp.
No. Amir is Arabic for prince.
“Almir Almilovic” is a Bosnian name...
but this fella was not the perp, but one of the hostages.
Maybe, Almir was spared by his fellow Muzzie? - Just guessing.... they should just release the identity of the perp.
Maybe that was it. When the moose limb perp realized they were all moose limb he didn’t kill anyone.
Perp is identified in German media as a German national of Italian background... motive speculated to be “suicide by cop”.
Ah they don’t want to release the IDENTITY of the shooter ?
But but but ! What’s happening there in Germany ?
Where is Missis MERKEL ?
>>> (Moslem?)
The modus operandi doesn’t fit, they don’t take hostages and not harm general public.
This maybe more like the one person with suicidal by police case.
Since they are making every effort to conceal the identity of this guy..you know it was a muztard.
He has been identified as a 19 year old German-Italian.
Almir was a hostage, not the shooter.
Perp is identified in German media as a German national of Italian background.................................Almilovic? Now dattsa a reala Italian name. s/ (It doesn’t end in a vowel?)
Ooooopsa! He’s not the perp!
So it didn’t take the krauts three hours to get in and neutralize the threat?
Almilovic was one of the hostages...
Maybe someone should point out to the room-temperature-IQ libtards here in the US that "gun control" laws don't stop these kinds of things. Oddly enough, criminals actually disregard and break laws. Kind of goes along with that whole criminal thing...
Police said they had no indication of the motives of the man. Let’s not jump to concl... and it’s Islam.
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