Christmas market attack in Germany tonight😥 article linked

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/dec/20/germany-christmas-market-madgeburg
I have attended many Christmas markets over the years. They are so crowded especially at the moment as German children finished school for the Christmas holidays. Frightening, my prayers are with all the victim's 🙏

I agree that this is a weird case, the authorities seem to agree.
Considering he openly talked about his political leanings to friends an journalists and postet them online a lot about him has been known in such a short time.
I think a lot of people are irritated that despite his nationality and actions his views are actually the polar opposite to what was expected.

It is part of the gas lighting to label Reform, national rally in France (and maybe afd but don't know much about them) as "far right" when their policies of no mass immigration, secure borders etc was mainstream in the 80s and 90s and even Labour had those policies and we didn't have barriers everywhere and spend billions in monitoring these people. In my view it is the main political parties now who are extremists particularly with allowing mass immigration of millions of unvetted men that could be criminals/terrorists and often hate us putting our security at risk (our leaders don't care as they have personal security). I wish people would wake up and stop letting these politicians and media gaslight us through this labeling.

Exactly! I have been called racist so much on this thread as that's all those posters can do, name call.
I have had @BadgerIndungarees claiming I called the murderer a "brown man" which is absolutely not true & Badger is refusing to quote where I allegedly said this!
It's all this lot can do name call & fabricate.

Exactly the biggest threat to society is the far left.

I see a lot of fabrication and guess work on this thread about what actually happened.

What are you trying to achieve here?

Firstly I want @badgerindungarees to find the post where I allegedly called the murderer a "brown man"!

He told his friends he was a supporter.
He also openly tweeted support for rdifferent right wing politicians around europe.

Yeah those #CorbynRiots over the summer were terrifying

Yes I agree

So the motivations behind these attacks don't matter?
Having right wing demonstrations in front of grieving people does not matter?
A guy openly posting on TikTok about planning an attack on arabs does also not have anything to do with the attacks einher?
Sure.

Whats interesting is the hare hill riots were largely over looked & the BLM riots

The destruction of property is out of order no matter who is doing it - but we cant have one set of people given a free pass because of their identity.

I didn't say that you explicitly called him a brown man. It's funny I've managed to get to the grand age of 40 and have never been called a racist yet it seems like many think you are. Maybe you should sit back and reflect on why people might think that. Posting up a storm with your views that reflect those of a man who committed mass murder just a few days might have something to do with why people are finding your posts so abhorrent.

I'm not responding to you again, it's 2 days before Christmas and I have no desire to waste my time on someone who wishes to spread hate in the wake of an appalling crime. My thoughts are with all of those who have been personally affected by this awful act. Hopefully this will be a wake up call to some that all kinds of hate can lead to extremism and more moderate voices will prevail.

And we also know that if he had been sent back to Saudi then the nine year old boy Andre Gleissener would have been celebrating Christmas with his family, opening presents instead of being killed at the Christmas market.

It has been widely reported across different channels that he claimed asylum because he was opposing the royal family in Saudi Arabia.

I thought it was immigrants?

Go and froth some where else.

I couldn't give a flying toss about motivations. Dress it up as much as you like and make excuses all you like.

Christians were targeted yet again at a Christian event.

The media and governments will be making out he is a retired priest with depression

I know, he was recognised as a refugee and granted asylum.

Fugitive is something different, so I was wondering where that came from

Im surprised he is a choir. buy from wales tbh..

If he is angry at the Saudi royal family - why is trying to kill christians at at a christmas event?

just doest add up does it? Strange

I didn't say that you explicitly called him a brown man. It's funny I've managed to get to the grand age of 40 and have never been called a racist

Nobody in this day and age should care one bit about being called racist.

Posting up a storm with your views that reflect those of a man who committed mass murder just a few days might have something to do with why people are finding your posts so abhorrent

How does anything she says reflect those of a man with an ethnic hatred of Germans? Be clear.

someone who wishes to spread hate in the wake of an appalling crime. My thoughts are with all of those who have been personally affected by this awful act

Nobody is spreading hate. We want to find solutions. Thoughts and prayers won’t cut it.

Hopefully this will be a wake up call to some that all kinds of hate can lead to extremism and more moderate voices will prevail

Classic DARVO right here.

It's always interesting, the difference between what you're told and what you see, all very 1984. For instance, we were told that Biden was fit and well and completely in charge. That would be gaslighting I suppose.
I'm very concerned about the rates of immigration, and the actions of disenchanted men (and women) from all groups creating civil unrest.
MLK's dream was to judge by the quality of character not the colour of skin, it's still a judgement.
For those banging on about 'brown people', from the photos I've seen of the perpetrator he's less brown than many of the 'white people' I know. I may need a new dulux chart.

Nowhere it states that he hated Germans or Christians, so why keep making things up

It's very curious, Indian paper claiming there is a secret society of ex Muslims who support each other. secret because of apostateThey said they interacted with him and one felt he was unstable, he was weird around the women he helped flea. They didn't believe he as ex Muslim and felt he was harassing the girls he was helping to flea.

Unfortunately me and people wil be affected by the political climate following these attacks.
You won't.

The attack under discussion took place in Germany.