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Horst Seehofer

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Gender Male
Age 74
Web site www.seehofer-direkt.de
Date of birth July 4,1949
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Ingolstadt
Germany
Height 193 (cm)
Spouse Karin Seehofer
Party Christian Social Union in Bavaria
Office Federal Minister of the Interior (Germany)
Children Anna-Felicia Fröhlich
Job Politician
Education Verwaltungs- und Wirtschafts-Akademie München e. V.
Parents Grete Seehofer
Lorenz Seehofer
Previous positionFederal Minister of the Interior and Community of Germany (2018–2021)
NationalityGerman
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Horst Lorenz Seehofer is a German politician who served as Minister of the Interior, Building and Community under Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021.

Hanau, Germany: Germany boosts security amid right-wing threat

Feb 16,2020 6:59 am

Germany provide additional police officers for the protection of mosques, railway stations, airports and other sensitive locations because of a "very high" extreme right-wing threat to the Hanau-killings, says Minister of The Interior .

Horst Seehofer said he had agreed the measures with the regional leaders, in order to prevent any copycat attacks.

the Prosecutor's office says the alleged shooter, now dead, "deeply racist".

Nine people in hookah bars in the western town on Wednesday have been killed.

"The security threat of right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism is very high," Mr Seehofer said. He called it "the biggest security threat in Germany".

Muhammed B, a survivor of the wounded, described from his hospital bed, as the sniper took careful aim on The Victims in The Arena Bar & Cafe.

"Everyone he saw, he shot him directly in The Head . He hung up, he shot all of us. I hid behind a wall, and as I moved to hide, he shot me in the arm," he told a Turkish TV interviewer.

"It was a Bloodbath . We were all lying on top of each other. The guy below me, a hole in his neck, had he said: "I can't breathe, I can feel my tongue"," Muhammad recalled, in tears. He said he told the young man to recite a last prayer, which he did.

Who The Victims were?

the investigators say, all the shisha bar, The Victims were of foreign Origin - Some were German nationals, while Turkey says at least five of the Turkish citizenship had. Some were reported to be ethnic Kurds.

The Dead also included one person each from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Romania.

tens of thousands of people participated in vigils for The Victims on Friday night in Hanau, Germany, and Berlin, with candles and white roses in silence.

The Attack , which is treated on a 43-year-old German named Tobias R,, as an act of terrorism.

In their response to The Attack of German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the "poison of racism".

What happened at the shooting?

The shooting began around 22:00 (21:00 GMT) on Wednesday, and The First goal of The Midnight hookah bar in Hanau, Germany, was.

The suspects drove then with the car in the boilers city neighbourhood, Some 2. 5 km (1. 5 miles) away, and opened fire in The Arena Bar & Cafe.

hookah bars are places where people come together to smoke a pipe, known as shisha or hookah. Traditionally, East Asian countries took place in the Middle, they are also popular in many other parts of The World .

the police identified the bomber by the information provided by witnesses and surveillance cameras. Early on Thursday, they stormed The Suspect in his apartment, in the vicinity of The Scene of the second shooting.

The Suspect and his 72-year-old mother were found shot and killed both. A gun was found next to The Suspect 's body.

The Investigation is focused on whether others knew about or helped plan The Attack . The Suspect had right-wing contacts in Germany or abroad.

Ali, a Turkish-German anti-racism activist, posted a photo of a friend of his cousin, to say that The Friend was among those killed.

Writing on Twitter, he said: "We can't spend a quiet evening, we're afraid for our lives. What happened in Germany? Where is the protection?"

What is known about The Suspect ?

Tobias R wrote, videos, and a kind of Manifesto on his website, the Federal Prosecutor's office said.

In the document, he wrote that the people should be from More Than 20 countries, including Turkey and Israel "destroyed," AFP reported.

London-based German counter-terrorism expert Peter Neumann said that the text contained "various, but mostly extreme right-wing views, with a do-it-yourself ideology, assembled from parts found on The Internet ".

The Suspect has been identified as Tobias R

Hesse Interior Minister Peter Beuth said The Suspect was not previously known to The Authorities .

The German tabloid Bild reported that he had a firearms license, and the ammunition and rifle magazines were found in his car.

gun laws in Germany are among the strictest in The World , and worse, the shootings in the last few years to other mass.

Recent right-wing attacks in Germany

racism, germany, germany shisha bar shooting

Source of news: bbc.com

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