Posted on 04/03/2005 1:20:54 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
One Dead in Sword Attack at German Church
By Associated Press
April 3, 2005, 10:45 AM EDT
STUTTGART, Germany -- A man wielding a sword attacked parishioners at a Protestant church in southwest Germany, killing one person and injuring several others.
The Baden-Wuerttemberg state Interior Ministry said the attack occurred during a church service. It had no immediate details on the suspect or his motives.
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Oh...thank God it wasn't a gun. We can all rest easy now.
sure, but was the sword registered? Was he a "right wing whacko"? What is the status of sword control?
/sarcasm
So, will this lead to cause for "sword control"? Or for "church service control"? (One makes just as much sense as the other...)
I would like too know the name of the man wielding the sword, and yes I am profiling.
They'll probably put a stop to church services so that they don't provoke even more swordsmen.
Now that has to be the strangest typo I ever recall making. What I meant to type was "So, will this lead to calls..."
This guy killed more people in a sword attack than the assault-rifle nut near Kingston, NY, in a crowded mall.
A also understand that no Eropean flags are being flown at half staff today. Surprised anyone was in church to be stabbed.
Well, it was a Protestant Church. Perhaps they didn't get the memo?
More details from a Google search:
Attack in German Church (Update1)
April 3 (Bloomberg) -- A 43-year-old woman was killed and three people were ``severely'' injured by a man wielding a Samurai sword at a church service for ethnic Tamils in the southern German city of Stuttgart, police said.
A woman is hospitalized in ``critical condition,'' one man was stabbed and one man's hand was cut off in the attack, Stuttgart police said in a press release e-mailed to news organizations.
The attack, at a Methodist church in Zuffenhausen, a district in the north of Stuttgart, was probably motivated by ``personal problems'' and had no political background, said Julia Christiani, a spokeswoman for the Stuttgart police.
People in the church noticed the attacker, a 25-year-old Tamil man, at about 3:40 p.m. They used chairs to defend themselves as the man haphazardly attacked the roughly 65 people attending the service, about half of them children. Officers arriving at the scene after receiving a phone call at 3:48 p.m. found severed body parts in the church, said Sybille Ahlborn, a police spokeswoman.
Police used pepper spray to arrest the suspect, who was still carrying the sword, at the entrance of the church, Christiani said.
The police didn't specify whether the people involved were nationals of Sri Lanka or India, the countries of origin of the Tamil ethnic group.
I wonder if he is a member of any "religious" group?
Mark17 wrote:
I wonder if he is a member of any "religious" group?
--> Are you refering to "the religion of peace"? :P
LOL, well, now that you mention it, I was kind of leaning very, very slightly in that direction :-)
Mark17 wrote:
--> Are you refering to "the religion of peace"? :P
LOL, well, now that you mention it, I was kind of leaning very, very slightly in that direction :-)
-->ROTFLMAO! ! ! ! !
Wasn't there some guy a few months ago that was running around one of the German forests attacking people with a sword?
IIRC, he did it for several weeks and the authorities were not able to catch him.
I seem to recall that every self-respecting Junker in Bismarck's day had a dueling scar.
They're full during the week (tourists) & empty on Sunday.
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