AFP Image caption Hanau residents demonstrated against racism The shootings sparked a manhunt. Police identified the gunman through information from witnesses and surveillance cameras. Early on Thursday, they stormed the suspect’s home, near the scene of the second shooting.
The suspect and his 72 – year-old mother were found in his apartment, both also shot. A gun was found next to the suspect’s body.
The investigation into the attack is now focusing on whether others knew about or helped organize it, Mr Frank said on Thursday, adding that investigators wanted to establish any links the suspect may have had in Germany or potentially also abroad.
Who were the victims?
Few details have been released but they include German citizens and foreigners aged between and , Germany’s federal prosecutor said.
A Bosnian , Bulgarian and Romanian citizen died in the attack, their respective countries said.
Ali Can, a German-Turkish anti-racism activist, posted a photo of a friend of his cousin, saying that the friend was among those killed.
Writing on Twitter he said: “We can’t spend a peaceful evening out, we’re scared for our lives. What is happening in Germany? Where is the protection?”
What do we know about the suspect?
Tobias R had posted videos and a kind of manifesto on his website, the federal prosecutor said.
In the document he wrote that people from more than Countries including Turkey and Israel should be “destroyed”, AFP reported.
London-based German counter-terrorism expert Peter Neumann said the text contains “various, but mostly extreme right views, with a do-it-yourself ideology cobbled together out of parts found on the internet”.
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