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In Hamburg, a center of Jehovah’s Witnesses was the target of a shooting on the evening of Thursday, March 9. The assailant, who took his own life, was a former member of the community, in conflict with it.
In Hamburg, the lifeless bodies of Jehovah’s Witnesses are loaded into funeral service vehicles. After the shooting that hit their center, the death toll is eight. A resident filmed the scene on Thursday March 9 around 9 p.m. “I heard at least 25 gunshots and then the police arrived. After about five minutes I heard one last gunshot”, he recalls. About fifty Jehovah’s Witnesses were gathered that evening.
The shooter, a former member of the community
“The first police who entered found people seriously injured, others were already dead. They went upstairs and found a dead person”, describes Holger Vehren, spokesperson for the Hamburg police. The shooter killed himself after the attack. According to the first elements of the investigation, he was 35 years old and was a former member of Jehovah’s Witnesses. According to some accounts, he hated the community. Sporting shooter, he had a license to carry weapons.
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