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BERLIN: Five people were left dead after a hostage-taking during a home eviction in southwestern Germany Wednesday, including the presumed gunman, police said.
Police said they found the bodies inside after storming the apartment in the city of Karlsruhe when they smelled something burning several hours after the man barricaded himself and the hostages inside. – AFP
Earlier Reports:
Police: Three or four dead in German hostage-taking
KARLSRUHE, Germany: Three or four people were killed after a gunman took people hostage during a home eviction in southwestern Germany Wednesday, police said.
A police spokesman said the hostage-taker and all his hostages were dead after he barricaded himself and them into an apartment block in the city of Karlsruhe.
Police stormed the flat after smelling something burning and found the bodies inside, they said.
Residents of the building had raised the alarm with police at around 9:00 am (0700 GMT) when shots were heard from the home of the hostage-taker who was due to be evicted in the morning.
Police earlier said they presumed the three to four people being held hostage were a bailiff, the new home owner, the caretaker and a locksmith.
Any guesses?
EEyore
You are not in any way implying that the mass murderer was RoPer?
Its just not possible that the highest in the land, here in Europe and Pres Obama, have told us that such acts have nothing to with Islam. Absolutely nothing.
DP:
Given Europe’s ludicrous and totalitarian gun control laws there are only 2 groups that are actually in possession of guns.
Indigenous criminals and Muslim immigrants.
Give that indigenous criminals typically pay rent and have organizational skills that leaves one group.
Of course I could be wrong and once before when I estimated a crime to be by a ‘cultural enricher’ I was wrong. We should know soon.
Also given that clearly all parties involved know the perp’s name and wont say it, I would be it starts with an ‘M’.
Snippets from the Daily Nail
Media reports say the armed gunman executed a bailiff, a locksmith, the new tenant of his apartment and a woman in the south-west city of Karlsruhe with shots to the head before taking his own life.
The drama began shortly after 9am this morning when court-appointed officials arrived at his loft apartment in the city’s Kanalweg to enforce an eviction order.
It was reported that he also had a hand grenade and was heard by neighbours to shout at the bailiff; ‘You want my home, it will cost you your life.’
Ooh – sounds suspicious.
It is understood that the man was the former boyfriend of the apartment owner. They had split and he had allegedly refused to move out of her apartment.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168598/Five-dead-German-gunman-took-hostages-bailiffs-arrived-evict-flat.html
No real info till now
Warmer.
Die Welt commentary provides some clues . . .
Sympathy for the evicted tenant evaporates as evidence of this tenant’s arsenal (including grenades) belies the lack of funds for rent payments.
One commenter states: “You gotta have to decide: Should it be a “hurray, as one fights against the system!” or be a “Look, this is definitely a bad alien!”
“Heuschlern” is a term used in one comment chastising commenters critical of the tenant facing eviction.
“Heuschlern” is a term which google translate couldn’t clarify, yet is found numerous times in an open search on the web. Coincidentally, the german term for hypocrites is ‘heuchlern’. Curiously, the spelling variant ‘heuschlern’ pops up in many links discussing Islam related topics as in this persian link:
In the Name of Allah, Gnäden, the Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, the Rabb of the worlds, the protector of the righteous, the supporters of the puritanical monotheistic noble warriors, against the infidels, apostates and Heuschlern. And the peace and blessings be with the commander of the mujahideen, the Chosen (Al-Mustafa), the trusted, Muhammad and his pure family and noble companions and all those who follow them with sincerity, until the day of judgment.
So then,
NOTE 02/05/2011: Our article was translated into English walhamdulillah read, but with a very interesting additional information, be sure >> HERE <<.
Planned eviction results in planned executions . . .
info culled from bild.de
Among the dead: The Bailiff (47), a judicial official was shot initially in the thigh twice and the new tenant (49) – both were tied up, when the bailiff attempted to escape they were shot multiple times and killed by headshots, his ex-girlfriend/the home owner was found dead with chest wound in bed. The key service employee/locksmith (33) was mortally wounded by a shot to the abdomen as he attempted to overpower the perpetrator. The partner/girlfriend (55) died from an chest shot, the perpetrator himself had directed a shot in the head. The gunman was from Karlsruhe, lived partly in Alsace and was unemployed. Where he acquired the weapons is still unclear.
“Given Europe’s ludicrous and totalitarian gun control laws there are only 2 groups that are actually in possession of guns.
Indigenous criminals and Muslim immigrants. ”
That is so totally true, and exactly the reason those gun control laws have been put into place. I think we will have to raid Muslims to get weapons.
Eeyore you are right the German criminals are generally smarter then this.
Could German criminals be useful to us?
Gunman who killed four was French national
Consider the last statement above, and compare to the contrary characterization of gunman as described :
via Independent.ie
Privacy laws . ..yeah, that’s the ticket.