Article

2019-10-10 Europe

Gunman livestreamed German synagogue shooting on Twitch

More on this story from yesterday.

[NYPOST] A hate-filled gunman livestreamed his Yom Kippur attack on a synagogue and kebab joint in the German city of Halle on Wednesday ‐ railing against Jews and denying the Holocaust ever happened in the video he published online.

The 35-minute video was livestreamed on Amazon’s video gaming platform, Twitch, according to a Twitch spokeswoman, and showed the gunman murdering one woman outside a synagogue before opening fire in a kebab store.

The unidentified gunman

...the Wall Street Journal identified him as Stephan Balliet, 27, a German citizen from Saxony-Anhalt who had no police record. German news sites, of course, call him Stephan B. ...

introduces himself in the graphic video before roaming the streets of Halle in a car, the front seat loaded with explosives and ammunition.

"Hi, my name is Anon and I think the Holocaust never happened," the gunman claimed before continuing an inaudible tirade about feminism and immigration.

"And the root of all these problems is the Jew. Would you like to be friends?" he said.

Two people were killed in the shooting, which officials described as an anti-Semitic attack on Yom Kippur ‐ the holiest day in Judaism.

Twitch spokeswoman Brielle Villablanca told Rooters the platform had a "zero-tolerance policy against hateful conduct."

"We worked with urgency to remove this content and will permanently suspend any accounts found to be posting or reposting content of this abhorrent act," Villablanca said.

Twitch ‐ a site where gamers can livestream and chat to others ‐ claims it has 15 million daily users.

One suspect was arrested but two other alleged button men fled in a hijacked car after leaving two other people seriously maimed, authorities said.

The news magazine Der Spiegel reported that the suspected assailant is a 27-year-old man from the state of Saxony-Anhalt, where Halle is located. His name was not released.

The video appears inspired by the Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque shootings in March, where the gunman shared his deadly rampage on Facebook Live.

Posted by Fred 2019-10-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Real men go after muslims.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-10 05:43|| 2019-10-10 05:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Real men do nothing of that sort.

Posted by European Conservative 2019-10-10 09:19|| 2019-10-10 09:19|| Front Page Top

#3 I agree with EC, Dron66. Real men defend women & children. What's the biggest threat to women & children right now? It's not Muslims, it's the "educational" system.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-10 09:36|| 2019-10-10 09:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Herr Balliet went after a nearby kebab shop after he couldn’t get into the synagogue, hating both equally. Let’s go after those who feel entitled not to be good citizens.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-10 09:37|| 2019-10-10 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5 hating both equally

Why go to synagogue first?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-10 09:40|| 2019-10-10 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Why go to synagogue first?

The expectation of significantly more victims, the expectation that they would not fight back, probably.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-10 09:50|| 2019-10-10 09:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Come on TW, be serious.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-10 09:52|| 2019-10-10 09:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Of course. I stand corrected.

I meant to convey that I don't see many 'shooter' types having the balls to do this to muslims, because there is not just a loathing of the tribe but a real fear of their reprisal. All communities everywhere are cowed by the muslim hordes living amongst them.

Jews are easier targets, christians even more so; and these video-gamer rage boys are pansies for going after easy prey. Of all the crazy shooters from our recent news posts, I actually felt a little bit for the Christchurch terminator. Just a little.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-10 10:01|| 2019-10-10 10:01|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't understand what #8 adds to this conversation or why it should remain in this thread.

Posted by Crusader 2019-10-10 10:22|| 2019-10-10 10:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Why go to synagogue first?

The expectation of significantly more victims,

g(r)omgoru, the following appeared on The Times of Israel’s blog an hour ago:

German prosecutor says synagogue shooter planned Yom Kippur ‘massacre’

A German prosecutor says the suspect in the attack in the German city of Halle wanted to carry out a “massacre” in a synagogue and had about four kilograms (nearly nine pounds) of explosives in his car.

Germany’s chief federal prosecutor Peter Frank says that many questions remain about the suspect who is now in custody, a German citizen identified by media as Stephan Balliet.

Investigators still have to determine how he got hold of the material to build homemade weapons and explosives and whether anyone knew of his plans.

Frank told reporters in Karlsruhe that “what we experienced yesterday was terror.” He says that the suspect wanted to create a “worldwide effect” by livestreaming his attack, in which two people were killed outside the synagogue. He wanted to encourage others to imitate him.

Balliet is suspected of two counts of murder and nine of attempted murder.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-10 10:41|| 2019-10-10 10:41|| Front Page Top

#11 ^It's always "why bicycle riders?".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-10 10:45|| 2019-10-10 10:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Synagogue had good security cameras and some sort of manned guards, although probably unarmed

Posted by Lord garth 2019-10-10 14:59|| 2019-10-10 14:59|| Front Page Top

#13 and sturdy doors.

Posted by European Conservative 2019-10-10 15:12|| 2019-10-10 15:12|| Front Page Top

13:12 Regular joe
13:12 mossomo
13:11 swksvolFF
13:08 Abu Uluque
13:00 swksvolFF
12:59 Regular joe
12:55 Skidmark
12:53 Skidmark
12:52 Abu Uluque
12:50 Abu Uluque
12:49 Skidmark
12:48 NN2N1
12:46 Skidmark
12:44 Bobby
12:43 Abu Uluque
12:41 Bobby
12:38 Skidmark
12:31 swksvolFF
12:30 Skidmark
12:22 Abu Uluque
12:19 Abu Uluque
12:17 Abu Uluque
12:17 Skidmark
12:15 Abu Uluque