The suspected triggerman of the hall should have acted according to the current state of the investigation as a single offender. But “lone wolves” are not isolated.
Stephan B., the 27-year-old suspected assassin of hall, has documented with his helmet camera that he was not as alleged perpetrators, on-the-go. Around 35 minutes, he transferred his act live on the Game Streaming platform, “Twitch”, the group belongs to the Amazon. The Deutsche Welle has seen a copy of the now-deleted Videos. In it, Stephan is b. clearly and without a doubt, realize that he wants to murder. Jews. Foreigners. Women. At the beginning of the video he denies the Holocaust. At times, he speaks English, German. His language is xenophobic, anti-Semitic and racist. If he speaks German, he uses swear words, which among German neo-Nazis is common.
Alleged individual perpetrators in the murder-to-noise
He breathes heavily, he runs, he will escape via the charging inhibitions of his self-made weapons and explosives, and no longer apologizes for his supposed audience, he kills people. As he fails, in the Packed synagogue hall to penetrate, it searches in the vicinity of other targets. Only on the open road, then in a Turkish Doner kebab shop. The supplication of his victims, leaves him cold. He is in a murder frenzy. He returns once again to the scene of crimes, to ensure that the taken woman and the made man are dead.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the evening of the anti-Semitic plot of hall
Stephan B. acts partially erratic, but as he goes on, is reminiscent of two other right-wing radical perpetrators: to Anders Breivik, who on 22. July 2011 murdered in Norway, 77 people – mostly young people of a social democratic summer camps. And to the assassin of Christchurch, on 15. March shot in new Zealand two mosques in the attack and 51 people. As Stephan B. behind the two written documents on the net that are similar in terms of language and on the same extreme right-wing ideas to draw let.
Terrorist Perpetrators?
If Stephan B. has in fact acted alone, with whom will he stand when and how intensive in contact, if anyone was privy to his plans, must show the investigation. Even with the violence of the extreme right-wing terrorist group “national socialist underground” (NSU) acts of the German authorities a hard time, the scale of the extreme-right terrorist network illuminate. The NSU murdered between 2000 and 2007, ten people and under 43 murder took tests. The process began in may 2013, the verdict against Beate Zschäpe, one of the leaders, was acquitted in June of 2018: life imprisonment.
In front of the attacked synagogue in Halle / Saale, candles and flowers remembering the victims
Both Breivik and the assassin of Christchurch are referred to in the media regularly as a “lone wolf attackers”. As a lone terrorist wolves, were under no command or open of a group were supported. Scientific studies suggest that terrorist perpetrators are networked and want to share. Hardly is spontaneous, most of the planning rooms of your deed for a long time.
The International center for terrorism studies, the Pennsylvania State University (ICST) has analysed in 2013, the Profiles of 119 terrorist individual offenders, almost all of them were male. Around two-thirds of the cases studied, family members, friends, or Acquaintances was the commitment of the offender for a certain extremist ideology consciously.
In 64 percent of cases families and friends were “is also the intention of the Individual to participate in a terrorist activity, because the offender had communicated to them orally”.
Most of the investigated 119 single perpetrator had “regularly in a detectable and observable range of behavior and activities with a larger interest group, social movement or terrorist organization involved.” 53% were socially isolated, 35 percent had regular virtual contact with like-minded people.
The rights network
The Internet is full of communities of extremist Online, in which isolated individuals find like-Minded people can meet. These virtual networks are real and dangerous. Here, extremists and conspiracy theorists on coups each other, here, fantasies of Violence are exchanged and played, here are the supporters of the alleged individual perpetrators of cheer. Particularly popular forums such as 8Chan, in the User pictures and comments set. A Moderation of the operator take place.
Also about the Live Streaming video portal “Twitch”, on the Stephan B. his murder frenzy uploaded, people come in contact with each other, which would have met without the power probably never. On “Twitch” will be meeting a lot of gamers, who want to Express their passion for violent games. Here, too, the alleged individual perpetrator might encounter on a supposedly legitimating frame for murder and Terror. The bottom line: The social networks allow the alleged individual perpetrators across national borders open to exchange.
“Lone wolf attacker” such as Anders Breivik and the assassin of Christchurch were part of a global networked community. Whether and how intense the matches, Stephan B., must show the determination.
The Company
Also in Germany, suspected terrorists do not act in a social vacuum: According to the Federal office for the protection of the Constitution, the number of right-wing extremist and xenophobic violence in Germany increased recently: from 774 in the year 2017, to 821 in the past year. The number of acts of violence with anti-Semitic Background increased in the same period by more than 70 percent, from 28 in the year 2017, to 48 last year.
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The Eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, from the captured Stephan B. comes, is often affected by right-wing extremist crime. In 2017, there were 101 rights of acts of violence in the past year, there were 91.
The far-right nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD), in the many to define the Nation through blood and soil, he now sits in the Bundestag and all 16 state legislatures. In the recent state elections in Saxony-Anhalt in the year 2016, the AfD was at 24.3 percent, the second strongest force behind the CDU of Chancellor Angela Merkel, and reached 32.5 percent. In this social climate, the alleged individual perpetrator Stephan B. has surgery.
Staff: Naomi Conrad