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After the massacre of Orlando: The search for the motive
The assassin of Orlando itself to the IS-terrorist militia known. However, doubts on the subject: Familiar to describe him as “not religious”. President Obama does not control the perpetrator from abroad.
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Global mourning for victims of Orlando
A day after the massacre of Orlando, the US authorities check the Connections of the assassin for the terrorist militia “Islamic state” (IS). According to the IS-radio station Al-Bayan, the death was a shooter, a fighter of the terrorist militia. “God has helped Omar Mateen”, an attack against the crusaders in a night club run, the station reported. Al-Bayan is the official announcement organ of the jihadists in their zone of control in Syria and in Iraq. However, it was not said that the deed was planned by the leadership level of the IS and in the order given.
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Search for the subject
The Federal Bureau of investigation, said that the US citizens with Afghan roots had known in a call to the police, in immediate connection with the murder, to the IS. Mateens 2011 of him, the divorced Ex-wife said he was violent and mentally unstable. You described all thing than religious. Mateen have participated in prayer three to four Times per week on the evening of the mosque, his place of residence Fort Pierce, reported the local Imam Syed Shafeeq Rahman. He had “never expected” that Mateen could commit such an act, said the Imam. Maybe have radicalized Mateen unnoticed on the Internet. Mateens father called in the NBC hatred of Gays as a possible motive, religious reasons, he out of the castle.
The 29-year-old Omar Mateen had abbreviated in the night to Sunday in Orlando in the US state of Florida in a night club for Gay, lesbian Bi – and transsexual – as LGBT – meanwhile corrected figures provided by the authorities 49 people were killed and another 50 injured. Only hours after the first shots are fired, police officers stormed the Club and killed the assassin.
The alleged bomber Omar Mateen was not as aggressive and mentally unstable – but not as a religious
Global Bewilderment
US President Barack Obama said in a first reaction from an “act of terror and hatred”. He ordered mourning, flags at all Federal buildings in the United States. Later, he said at the White house in Washington, it’ll give no clear evidence that the assassin from abroad had been controlled, or that the attack was part of a larger terrorist plan. However, there are signs that the perpetrators had been inspired by various sources on the Internet extremist. The assassination of Orlando way of Similarities to the shooting in San Bernardino, California in the past year. The investigations lasted. Obama had previously been of investigators and Anti-terrorist specialists informed.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the massacre as frightening. “Our heart is heavy, that the hatred and the viciousness of a single human being has cost over 50 lives,” said Merkel on the sidelines of the German-Chinese government consultations in Beijing.
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Helpfulness in Orlando
To commemorate the victims of the One World Trade Center in New York had his antenna in the rainbow colours of the Gay and lesbian Shine movement. Also the Eiffel tower in Paris will go on this Monday evening the colors. The Empire State Building, the lights were in the night, “out of sympathy for the victims”.
“We have done the Right thing”
The police in Orlando, defended in the action against the attacker. In order to gain access to the Club, in which many people as the hostages were sitting, had blown up the security forces a hole in a wall. She then enlarged the Opening with the help of an armored vehicle.
“We knew we had to do the Right thing, and we believe that we have saved a lot of lives,” said Orlando police chief John Mina. The offender, who had entrenched themselves in the Club, have spoken on the phone of explosives. Therefore, had reason to fear that the death of other human beings is imminent.
In memory of Orlando: the Stars and Stripes and a rainbow flag at the town hall of Paris
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The act could lead to a further polarization in the already sharply-term election campaign in the United States. The prospective Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called on Obama to resign. He accused the President too great a Forbearance towards the danger by Islamic extremists. Trump reiterated his call, to honor Muslims, in General, the entry into the United States. Trumps probable election opponent, Hillary Clinton, condemned the attack.
The fact, Orlando is the worst act of terrorism in the United States since the September 11 attacks. September 2001. It is considered the bloodiest act of an Individual in modern U.S. history. The assassination occurred during Gay Pride month in the whole country gay parades and festivals take place. In New York mayor Bill de Blasio, additional safety precautions for gay and lesbian facilities ordered.
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