‘Hanau, Germany - On a nondescript street corner in the centre of Hanau, locals arrived on Thursday afternoon with flowers to pay their respects, placing bouquets on the pavement just under the red and white tape that marked off the scene of the previous night's killings.
Behind the police cordon were the blacked-out windows of the Midnight shisha bar, a popular all-night hang-out that became the unlikely scene of a far-right attack that has shaken Germany, and led many to question whether the state was failing to address the threat of far-right violence in the country.
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It was here at about 10pm (21:00 GMT) on Thursday that a gunman entered, firing a barrage of shots at customers and a waiter, killing at least three people.
The killer, 43-year-old Hanau resident Tobias Rathjen, quickly left the bar and returned to his black BMW, in which he sped two kilometres (1.2 miles) west through the night to another shisha bar, Arena, in a residential neighbourhood in the west of the city, opening fire again and leaving a further five people dead.’
Read more here: Hanau mourns its loved ones murdered in far-right attack
Behind the police cordon were the blacked-out windows of the Midnight shisha bar, a popular all-night hang-out that became the unlikely scene of a far-right attack that has shaken Germany, and led many to question whether the state was failing to address the threat of far-right violence in the country.
More:
It was here at about 10pm (21:00 GMT) on Thursday that a gunman entered, firing a barrage of shots at customers and a waiter, killing at least three people.
The killer, 43-year-old Hanau resident Tobias Rathjen, quickly left the bar and returned to his black BMW, in which he sped two kilometres (1.2 miles) west through the night to another shisha bar, Arena, in a residential neighbourhood in the west of the city, opening fire again and leaving a further five people dead.’
Read more here: Hanau mourns its loved ones murdered in far-right attack