Shooting Massacre In German Town

Sky News ^ | August 15, 2007

[bd476]

Shooting Massacre In German Town

Updated: 07:02, Wednesday August 15, 2007

Six people have been shot dead in a west German town - all of them suffered bullet wounds to the head.



Duisburg in western Germany

Five bodies were found in two cars near the train station in Duisburg and a sixth person died in an ambulance on the way to hospital.

Police spokesman Hermann-Josef Helmich said police do not yet know who could have committed the killings or what the motive might have been.

"A witness heard the shots and stopped a police patrol car which was incidentally driving nearby," said another police spokesman, Reinhard Pape.

The bodies were discovered around 2.30am local time and all victims were between 20 and 30 years old, Mr Pape said.

He said one of the cars was a small van registered in Duisburg while the other one was a white Volkswagen from Pforzheim in south west Germany.

Police started investigating at the crime scene but work was hindered by heavy rain, he said.

[bd476]

This seems to be an unusual crime for Germany.

[bd476]

This is just an FYI ping.

[Rummenigge]

We have a very strict gun-control - so there’s nearly no shootings.

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[dr_lew]

Still falls the Rain -
Then - O Ile leape up to my God: who pulles me doune
See, see where Christ’s blood streames in the firmament:
It flows from the Brow we nailed upon the tree
Deep to the dying, to the thirsting heart
That holds the fires of the world - dark-smirched with pain
As Caesar’s laurel crown.

- Still Falls the Rain by Edith Sitwell

[Cindy]

I’m glad you started this thread, bd476.
I’ll bring our TM links over here.

[Irishguy]

7,3,2,1...the guy who shot them must have missed that memo tho...

[Cindy]

ON THE ‘NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875105/posts?page=1136#1136
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875105/posts?page=1139#1139

Off Topic, but fyi:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875105/posts?page=1140#1140
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875105/posts?page=1141#1141

[bd476]

Rummenigge wrote: "We have a very strict gun-control - so there’s nearly no shootings.

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That's what I have heard. A friend in West Germany has told me the same thing, that there are very strict gun control laws there. I'm not sure that I understand what you mean by your countdown, but this shooting is very strange.

[bd476]

Thank you for the links and info, Cindy!

[Cindy]

You’re very welcome bd476.

[Cindy]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1279920,00.html?f=rss

“Shooting Spree In German Town”
Updated: 08:22, Wednesday August 15, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Mr Wiebold said the victims were not German, but possibly African.”

[rmlew]

Gang activity between non-ethnic Germans.

[bd476]

rmlew wrote: "Gang activity between non-ethnic Germans."

Do you have a link or is that a guess?

[airedale]

One of the articles linked earlier in this: http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1279920,00.html?f=rss says the men were possibly African. That gives a better than even chance that they are Muslims. That opens the possibility for the neo nazi’s, terrorism or drugs being involved.

[Cindy]

UPDATE:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a8QcJ31AGlsY&refer=home

“Six Men Die in Shooting Close to Duisburg Main Station, Germany”
By Nicholas Comfort

Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) —

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The police have not yet identified a motive for the killings. They don’t rule out a conflict over money or a contract killing.

``No one takes a gun out on the street and shoots dead six people unless they have a reason,’’ said Helmich.

The police will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. today local time.”

[rmlew]

I have a link
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881392/posts

BERLIN (Reuters) - Six men have been shot dead in the northwestern German town of Duisburg, police said on Wednesday.

Police found the six in, or lying next to, two cars not far from the city's train station after a passer-by heard shots at about 2:30 a.m. (1:30 a.m. British time) and alerted them.

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The cars were registered in a German town but some local media said the victims were not German.

As for motive, I am guessing but this sounds like "hit".

[Greystoke]

Dollars to donuts-ROP

[Rummenigge]

I just thought that me attributing the rather peaceful society we are living in to gun control might have triggered some friendly phrased, well meaning and of course thoughtfull criticism (probably even mixed with some kind remarks concerning my mother)

[Cindy]

http://news.yahoo.com/i/1504

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070815/ts_afp/germanycrimeshooting_070815080043;_ylt=A0WTUd7YtcJGuH0BAh2FOrgF

“Six Italian men shot dead in western Germany”
13 minutes ago

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BERLIN (AFP) - Six Italian men shot dead with a bullet through the head were found overnight in two vehicles near the station in Duisburg in western Germany, police told AFP Wednesday.

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A police patrol found the bodies of five men as well as a sixth man who was critically wounded and died as he was taken to hospital around 2:30 am (0030 GMT).

Police later said the six were all Italian.

“The six men found with bullet wounds to the head were Italians aged from 16 to 39,” police spokesman Heinrich Rotering told AFP.”

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Thanks to Hal 9000 for this link:

http://www.romandie.com/infos/news/070815075229.fsxy1w91.asp

[Cindy]

Thanks to Scania Boy for the ping to this post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881392/posts?page=10#10

QUOTE:

According to Bildt Zeitung (a German tabloid) the six men were Italians. (”6 Italians killed by head shots”)

However, those Italians may be just as Swedish as the Swedish Gitmo prisoners.

http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2007/08/15/duisburg-morde/bahnhof-tote,geo=2322702.html

PS: Under one of the pictures in the article it says: According to the first reports from the police the dead men were of southern extraction. (”Nach ersten Ermittlungen der Polizei sind die Toten südländischer Herkunft”)

10 posted on 08/15/2007 1:12:26 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)