![]() ![]() He also expressed a hatred for German citizens who allowed immigrants into their country, and considered them as "impure". In his manifesto, he expressed extreme hatred for migrants, especially for people from the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and North Africa, calling explicitly for their "complete extermination". Rathjen stated he had been guided by voices inside his head since birth and he was being followed by secret agents. On his personal website, he published a racist manifesto and posted videos showing his political and misogynist beliefs, accused US President Donald Trump of stealing his slogans, promoted extreme eugenics and expressed frustration that due to his psychological issues he could never experience an intimate relationship with a woman. The gunman was identified as 43-year-old Tobias Rathjen, a far-right extremist. Two Turkish-Germans, an Afghan-German and a Cameroonian-German were among the five people injured. The attacker shot and killed his German mother (Gabriele Rathjen, 72) before committing suicide. Three immediately died in the first shooting, five immediately died in the second, and a ninth victim died in hospital the next day. The owner of one of the shisha bars was among the victims. Both Velkov and Păun were members of the Romani communities in their home countries. The nine people killed by the attacker during the two shootings were identified as: four Germans Gökhan Gültekin (37), Ferhat Unvar (23), Mercedes Kierpacz (35), Said Nesar Hashemi (21) (two of whom had Kurdish origins, another of Sinti origins, and another with Afghan nationality), Sedat Gürbüz (29) and Fatih Saraçoğlu (34) two Turks, Hamza Kurtović (22) a Bosnian, Kaloyan Velkov (33) a Bulgarian, and Vili Viorel Păun (22) a Romanian. ![]() He and his mother were discovered by police at 05:15 the next day when they gained entry. The gunman, later identified as Tobias Rathjen, then drove home, where he shot his mother while his father was able to escape. It was initially reported that the suspects were at large. The police initiated a large-scale investigation. The attacker first started aiming at three guests, followed by the waiter who had just served them. The shootings took place at around 22:00 local time ( UTC+1) on 19 February 2020, in two bars-one at the Midnight Bar in Hanau's central square, and the other at the Arena Bar & Café in Kesselstadt. The massacre was called an act of terrorism by the German Minister of Internal Affairs. After the attacks, the gunman returned to his apartment, where he killed his mother and then committed suicide. The Hanau shootings ( German: Anschläge in Hanau) occurred on 19 February 2020, when eleven people were killed and five others wounded in a terrorist shooting spree by a far-right extremist targeting a shisha bar, a bar and a kiosk in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. Mass shooting, spree shooting, terrorism, hate crime, murder–suicide, matricide
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