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German Rampage Confirms Worst Fears of Security Chiefs

Jamie Dettmer

   LONDON - Wednesday's massacre in the German town of Hanau, 25
   kilometers east of Frankfurt confirmed the worst fears of Germany's top
   security officials.

   They have been preparing for months for more far-right violence, and
   the shooting by a lone wolf gunman in Hanau, leaving nine dead at two
   hookah bars, is the type of attack that's been preoccupying them.

   Germany's federal prosecutors moved quickly into Hanau to take the
   investigation into the shooting over from locals. Some of the victims
   were of Kurdish descent; others are thought to have been Turkish. The
   43-year-old gunman, a local sports marksman, left a 24-page manifesto
   and a video detailing exactly why he murdered. The gunman was found
   dead in his apartment after the attack, along with the body of his
   72-year-old mother. She had gunshot wounds.

   Free of any misspellings or grammatical errors, the document lays out
   the gunman's hatred for foreigners and migrants and his desire for the
   extermination of Muslim-majority countries. In the manifesto, he calls
   for the genocide of entire populations "in explicitly eugenicist terms,
   saying that the science proves that certain races are superior," says
   Peter Neumann, a professor in the Department of War Studies at King's
   College, London University.

   He comes across "more like someone who spends all night watching
   conspiracy videos on YouTube," Neumann tweeted.

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