Mass shooting in German cinema complex

Timberrrrrrrr

http://news.sky.com/story/1716448/man-opens-fire-in-germany-cinema-complex

As many as 50 people have been wounded in a shooting at a cinema complex in Germany, according to local media reports.

An armed man has reportedly barricaded himself inside the complex, located in the town of Viernheim in western Germany.

Dr Strange

Oh ****, no.

****.

Damn.

TheDoctor

Here comes the Donald

Anyone got a link to German coverage?

Tabnabs

http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article156503222/Bewaffneter-soll-sich-in-Kino-in-Viernheim-verschanzt-haben.html

Dr Strange

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone got a link to German coverage?

http://www.thelocal.de/20160623/police

http://www.bild.de/regional/frankfurt/frankfurt-aktuell/kino-viernheim-bewaffneter-mann-schuesse-im-kino-center-46456070.bild.html

Apparently it's being reported that the injuries are from tear gas.

smash

Shít. Not another one...

Sapphire

What the fcuk is going on these days??

Womb_Raider

It really is disconcerting how commonplace shootings have been in the news as of late. Hopefully casualties are kept at a minimum.

Canis Lupus

Is it too early to start with anti Muslim anti immigration comments?

On the plus side only reports of injuries so far. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

Tabnabs

No one is dead and the gun man has been apprehended according to Bild

Viernheim - Greater Alarm in a movie theater in South Hesse - the SEC has arrested the amok shooters!

According to "Darmstädter Echo" is said to have been taken hostage the man. The police this far unconfirmed.

Shortly after 15:00 enters a gunman the Kinopolis at Rhein-Neckar-Zentrum. He is disguised, has a gun in his hand, wearing a cartridge belt around his shoulder. He shoots with an alarm gun once into the air.

Screaming flee dozens of visitors from the cinema. Then the weapons man entrenched.

Police triggers major alarm. SEK Elite policemen from Frankfurt lawn in convoy on the A5 to the south. Other SEC teams fly in helicopters to Viernheim.

25 people were injured by tear gas.

Red Kev

Viernheim – Groß-Alarm in einem Kino in Südhessen – das SEK hat den Amok-Schützen festgenommen!
Laut „Darmstädter Echo“ soll der Mann Geiseln genommen haben. Die Polizei bestätigte dies bislang nicht.
Kurz nach 15 Uhr betritt ein Bewaffneter das Kinopolis am Rhein-Neckar-Zentrum. Er ist vermummt, hat eine Schusswaffe in der Hand, trägt einen Patronen-Gürtel um die Schulter. Er schießt mit einer Schreckschusswaffe einmal in die Luft.
Schreiend flüchten dutzende Besucher aus dem Kino. Dann verschanzt sich der Waffen-Mann.
Die Polizei löst Groß-Alarm aus. SEK-Elite-Polizisten aus Frankfurt rasen im Konvoi über die A5 nach Süden. Weitere SEK-Teams fliegen im Hubschrauber nach Viernheim.
25 Menschen wurden durch Reizgas verletzt.

He used something like a starting pistol and shot once in the air, he has been arrested. About 25 injured from tear gas.

He had a mask over his face and a cartridge belt over his shoulder.

Sofiztikated

And let the rampant speculation begin.

RobbingBandit

Madness. Hope no one has died.

Boskowski

Not as serious as reported originally. The gun was a replica and the injured people are injured from the tear gas used by the police. The guy has been arrested. No casualties or serious injuries reported. Thanks for that.

Bacchus

Well lets be thankful at least that noone was killed.

maximoose

How the hell did they get the story so wrong?

Sofiztikated

maximoose wrote: »

How the hell did they get the story so wrong?

Everyone wants to be the first to break the news, so all it takes is one comment, and people run with it. Fact check be damned.

maximoose

maximoose wrote: »

How the hell did they get the story so wrong?

Welcome to the internet.

To be fair, what likely happened was someone reported a shot being fired, injuries resulting from the cops, and just took half the story from one, half the story from the other, and made it "50 injured in shooting".

It's technically accurate, but sensationalist.

Harry Palmr

Yep seems to be all over. German efficiency

Stand down!

maximoose

maximoose wrote: »

How the hell did they get the story so wrong?

Probably translation issues. "Wounded" coming from whatever the German for "injured" is.

Sounds like if there had been a good guy with a gun there then disaster could've been averted. Or this nut may have been able to get his hands on a proper gun. Either way, more easy access to guns would definitely have made this situation better.

Bacchus

I had a look on twitter... some guy tweeted a "quote" that "many dead and seriously wounded". Seriously like, adding fuel to a fire. I'm seeing reports now that the gun was a replica and the "wounded" were from tear gas only. Obviously terrifying if you were there and for families trying to cut to the truth but this could have been a much more serious incident.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Probably translation issues. "Wounded" coming from whatever the German for "injured" is.

Sounds like if there had been a good guy with a gun there then disaster could've been averted. Or this nut may have been able to get his hands on a proper gun. Either way, more easy access to guns would definitely have made this situation better.

Better?

It would have made it worse, because the person would have had access to an actual gun and not a replica and we really would be hearing reports of "40 dead!"

Red_Wake

Can someone explain to me the difference between a replica and a real gun?

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Better?

It would have made it worse, because the person would have had access to an actual gun and not a replica and we really would be hearing reports of "40 dead!"

I'll give you a prescription. http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjAw/z/CU8AAOxyYTRSXxM1/$(KGrHqFHJEQFJGC5nmP9BS()M1D-Kg~~60_35.JPG

Bacchus

Ugh (I should stay off Twitter), another guy using this to somehow justify lax gun laws in the US.... cause Germany has strict gun laws and here we have a mass shooting on the news.... oh wait.

Red_Wake

Red_Wake wrote: »

Can someone explain to me the difference between a replica and a real gun?

A real gun is an actual gun, a replica isn't.

Cheshire Cat

According to ARD the interior minister of Hessen has stated that the shooter is dead.

Skylinehead

Red_Wake wrote: »

Can someone explain to me the difference between a replica and a real gun?

One fires bullets.

The other doesn't.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

I'll give you a prescription. http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjAw/z/CU8AAOxyYTRSXxM1/$(KGrHqFHJEQFJGC5nmP9BS()M1D-Kg~~60_35.JPG

TBH it makes it more difficult to know who is serious and who isn't with the nonsense that you read in some of the other threads.

Replicas have the capability to fire bullets, though, but they are 1) very cumbersome and 2) quite dangerous, often misfiring and causing serious harm to the shooter.

smash

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

According to ARD the interior minister of Hessen has stated that the shooter is dead.

There was no shooter.

Timberrrrrrrr

Red_Wake wrote: »

Can someone explain to me the difference between a replica and a real gun?

A real gun can kill you.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Replicas have the capability to fire guns, though, but they are 1) very cumbersome and 2) quite dangerous, often misfiring and causing serious harm to the shooter.

I'd take a replica over a gun then, just fire out all the guns I want and use them. :pac:

Harry Palmr

smash wrote: »

There was no shooter.

Interior minister statement says a "gunman" has been shot dead.

suicide_circus

He's been arrested

Harry Palmr

Well someone is right!

as a side note - why is there no German news channel for SKY or FTA on Astra?

smash

Can anyone give a reliable source. Sky news are getting worse...

Man 'Opens Fire' In Germany Cinema Complex

German media reports suggest the man wore a mask and carried a gun and ammunition belt.

One magazine says that a man has been arrested.

Reuters are the same. They reported that he was arrested and then reporting that he was shot dead.

I guess we could just wait an hour and hear the proper story.

Bacchus

Reports that the attacker was shot dead are building momentum. The only consistent thing about this story is that noone was shot... except possibly the attacker himself.

Bacchus

Wonder could this have been a death by cop (suicide) attempt?

alchemist33

And no-one has linked it to the Brexit referendum yet. Conspiracy-heads are really letting the side down.

DavyD_83

Bacchus wrote: »

Ugh (I should stay off Twitter), another guy using this to somehow justify lax gun laws in the US.... cause Germany has strict gun laws and here we have a mass shooting on the news.... oh wait.

Clearly it would have been in the public interest if there were some properly armed people in the cinema to take down this madman and his replica gun before the cops got there with their tear gas assault.

Also, we should ban replica guns to remove this type of hysteria. If I see a man holding a gun, I want to know its real and that I'm justified in murdering him defending my rights

How are these kind of logical arguments so hard for people to understand :pac:

smash

alchemist33 wrote: »

And no-one has linked it to the Brexit referendum yet. Conspiracy-heads are really letting the side down.

We have to wait until they plant the ISIS flag on him and pay someone to say he shouted allahu akbar before they shot him.

Harry Palmr

Sounds like most of the injuries are from the inhalation of tear gas.

Bacchus

Ah lovely, the world has been set right once more... so the attacker apparently recently converted to Islam. That explains it so.

Sofiztikated

Bacchus wrote: »

Ah lovely, the world has been set right once more... so the attacker apparently recently converted to Islam. That explains it so.

Apparently shouting "Jesus is coming back," according to RT.

Bacchus

Sofiztikated wrote: »

Apparently shouting "Jesus is coming back," according to RT.

... and now he's a neo-Nazi white guy called Sam.

Harry Palmr

No one knows anything, but a news blackout is impossible these days.

Hopefully one day Simon McCoy will say "something has happened, we have no details so we'll not report anything further until facts are known for certain and now the weather"