Suspected of nine murders: Can't have a wife, when I'm being watched

The 43-year-old Tobias R., who is believed to be behind the attacks in the German city of Hanau on Wednesday evening, comes in the wake of several other offende

Ann McDonald
Ann McDonald
20 February 2020 Thursday 20:00
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Suspected of nine murders: Can't have a wife, when I'm being watched

The 43-year-old Tobias R., who is believed to be behind the attacks in the German city of Hanau on Wednesday evening, comes in the wake of several other offenders, who with a højreradikalt motif attacking random people of a muslim background.

But the 43-year-old, who was himself found dead on the night of Thursday, differs according to the German media from its predecessors in a series of points.

Good enough had Tobias R. according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, a manifesto on the net, but his gebærden on the web do not follow the same pattern as the other assassins.

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While angrebsmændene in Christchurch in New Zealand, El Paso, USA and Halle, Germany shared their attacks live on the web and shared their views with like-minded people on imageboards such as 8chan, so was Tobias R. is not a part of the same culture.

The alleged perpetrator, Tobias R., who is seen here on a video clip he put on YouTube. According to German media, he was convinced that he was being watched and had read his thoughts. Photo: Tobias R. YouTube/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix

So he laid his documents on his own website, and he did not use the same language as the others in the web's dark recesses, and instead, he is, according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung ridiculed in these parts of the net for his steps and positions, despite the fact that he shares their racism and misogyny.

the Victims of Wednesday's shootings are a daily through been reminded in Hanau. Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

Yesterday's attack was directed against the two different vandpibecafeer in Hanau by Frankfurt with short time intervals. After the first to have shot and killed several people in the first place, drove the offender on to another coffee shop and shot and killed several people.

From there, he drove on, and only around three o'clock on the night of the alleged perpetrator and his mother was found dead at an address immediately in the vicinity of the other vandpibecafé.

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German media reported quickly out of several killed, and about one o'clock reported to the police out, that eight persons had been killed. Later one of the victims of the shootings died, so the total death toll including the alleged perpetrator and his mother are perched on the 11.

The German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier was on Thursday to present at one of the gerningsstederne to show his sympathy with the victims. Photo: Bundesregierung/Guido Bergmann/Handout via Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

Among the killed were five Turkish nationals. Those killed in the cafes were between 21 and 44 years old.

After the suspected person's identity was known, proliferated his YouTube video on several social media, before Google, in the course of Thursdays had the luck to remove it completely, after it had been spread. According to German media, he spoke on the video about secret underground military bases, and warned against the mainstream media.

the documents he 20. January uploaded on his website, he speaks according to the media, not about any impending attack, but conversely, it suggests that he does not expect to be alive when they come out to the public.

Photo: Odd Andersen/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix

in addition to talk about the white races superiority, he writes that he since a young age had racist drabsfantasier. But he writes in a whole chapter, that he never had a girlfriend, but that it the last 18 years, merely because he 'will not have a wife, since I know I'm being monitored'.

on the whole, the idea that Tobias R. is being monitored on a recurring motif in the text, is reported so, since he seems convinced that an unknown intelligence service monitors him and reading his thoughts.

The German prosecutor has on Thursday stated that the offender had an 'overwhelming racial bias', but he was already known by the police.

Updated: 20.02.2020 20:00