Germany Shooting

• 8 people dead, several wounded in shooting at German Jehovah’s Witnesses building

  Police in Germany said the shooting took place in a district north of downtown Hamburg at a building used by Jehovah's Witnesses Thursday evening.

  World

  Mar 9, 2023
  
• Germany to increase police presence after deadly racially motivated shootings

  The suspect left a number of rambling texts and videos espousing racist views, authorities said, and claimed to have been under surveillance since birth.

  World

  Feb 21, 2020
  
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• 1 killed, 4 injured in shooting outside music venue in Berlin

  A spokeswoman for Berlin prosecutors said one or more people opened fire outside the Tempodrom, located near Potsdamer Platz in the centre of the city, before fleeing the scene.

  World

  Feb 15, 2020
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• 6 dead, multiple injured in shooting in southwestern Germany

  Police in the southwestern town told reporters that a suspect had been arrested and that there was a belief that the suspect knew one or more of the victims.

  World

  Jan 24, 2020
• Shooter spoke of anti-Semitic views in video of German synagogue attack that killed 2

  Officers were out in force across Halle, a city of 240,000, hunting down more suspects and urging residents to stay at home or indoors. The railway station in Halle was closed as a precaution.

  World

  Oct 9, 2019
• Munich shooter bought gun, ammunition on the ‘darknet’

  Prosecutors say the teenager paid 4,350 euros (nearly $4,900) for his gun and ammunition.

  World

  Aug 17, 2016
• Munich shooter, Ali Sonboly, had been planning attack for a year: German investigators

  Following the deadly attack in Munich that left 9 dead, police have been searching for a motive for what lead the 18-year-old to go on the shooting rampage.

  World

  Jul 24, 2016
• Military aid needed in times of crisis, says German official after Munich shooting

  Because of the excesses of the Nazi era, Germany's post-war constitution only allows the military to be deployed domestically in cases of national emergency.

  World

  Jul 24, 2016
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• Munich shooting: Timeline of events

  A timeline of the shooting at a shopping mall in Munich where a gunman, identified as an 18-year-old German-Iranian, killed nine people.

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  Jul 23, 2016
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• Munich shooting suspect ‘obsessed’ with mass shootings, police say

  The 18-year-old gunman who opened fire at a crowded Munich shopping mall and fast-food restaurant, killing nine people and wounding 16 others before killing himself, was obsessed with mass shootings, police said Saturday.

  Crime

  Jul 23, 2016