[quote]A man armed with an axe injured four people on a train in southern Germany before being shot dead by police, officials say.
Three people were seriously hurt and one suffered minor injuries in the attack in Wuerzburg, police said.
Initial reports said up to 20 people had been injured but it was later revealed that at least 14 had been treated for shock.
The identity of the attacker or the motive is not yet clear.
A Bavarian official quoted by German media said that the attacker was a 17-year-old Afghan refugee, but this was not confirmed.
A police spokesman at the scene said (in German) that the attacker had been shot dead while trying to flee.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36827725[/url]
[url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/18/about-20-people-injured-in-axe-attack-on-train-in-germany[/url]
Why do people do this? What did he accomplish?
Literally every 2 or 3 days, there's a terrorist attack or a psycho on a fucking train.
Fuck.
[quote]A journalist with the national broadcaster ZDF tweeted that the attacker was a 17-year-old Afghan man.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36827725[/url]
And here we go.
Let's see if they release the identity of the assailant...
I wonder if a known terrorist organization will take credit for this...?
Thank goodness there don't seem to be any casualties reported yet. I hope all the victims pull through. :(
The culprit was a 17-year old afghan who entered Germany as a refugee, he was staying at a refugee camp before being housed at a foster family for 2 weeks according to [URL="http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/bluttat-in-zug-bei-wuerzburg-mann-attackiert-21-menschen-mit-axt_id_5741372.html"]Focus[/URL].
This will cause another major uproar in Germany about the refugee flood.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;50734705]Thank goodness there don't seem to be any casualties reported yet. I hope all the victims pull through. :([/QUOTE]
I don't want to imagine being attacked by an axe wielding madman while sitting half asleep in the train, waiting to get home. It's just so fucking random.
Only 4 injured apparently, initial reports were inaccurate (BBC article in OP has updated)
[QUOTE]They include three seriously injured people, one lightly injured person and 14 who are in shock.
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4 injured is more accurate
[QUOTE=smurfy;50734867]Only 4 injured apparently, initial reports were inaccurate (BBC article in OP has updated)[/QUOTE]
I updated the OP but a mod's going to have to revise the title
I updated the title.
Poor Germany <3. Germans trying to be 2 kind with foreigners and this is what they get.
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[QUOTE=IceTea;50734696]I wonder if a known terrorist organization will take credit for this...?[/QUOTE]
Of course they will
...sooner or later
[QUOTE=Warmeup;50734953]Poor Germany <3. Germans trying to be 2 kind with foreigners and this is what they get.[/QUOTE]
Is this satire
An IS flag has been found in the attacker's room
[QUOTE=smurfy;50737262]An IS flag has been found in the attacker's room[/QUOTE]
If this is true then I just cannot wrap my head around he mindset of people who do things like this. Why in God's name would you flee from a country, presumably because of fear of ISIS, and then go out and attack people in the name of ISIS? Wasn't that shit exactly the stuff you were fleeing from?
Do you have a source for that claim on the flag?
[QUOTE=Hinterlight;50737289]If this is true then I just cannot wrap my head around he mindset of people who do things like this. Why in God's name would you flee from a country, presumably because of fear of ISIS, and then go out and attack people in the name of ISIS? Wasn't that shit exactly the stuff you were fleeing from?
Do you have a source for that claim on the flag?[/QUOTE]
Gee I dont know maybe he wasnt running from ISIS but actually sympathised with them?
[QUOTE=Hinterlight;50737289]If this is true then I just cannot wrap my head around he mindset of people who do things like this. Why in God's name would you flee from a country, presumably because of fear of ISIS, and then go out and attack people in the name of ISIS? Wasn't that shit exactly the stuff you were fleeing from?
Do you have a source for that claim on the flag?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.20min.ch/panorama/news/story/Axt-Attacke--ndash--IS-Flagge-bei-Angreifer-gefunden-24016685[/url]
German source.
You have to learn to live with islamic terrorism, sorry.
[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-15/learning-to-live-with-islamic-terrorism-in-france-and-beyond[/url]
[QUOTE=IceTea;50734689]Why do people do this? What did he accomplish?
Literally every 2 or 3 days, there's a terrorist attack or a psycho on a fucking train.
Fuck.[/QUOTE]
Isis gotta isis... thats all the sense i can make of it...
[editline]19th July 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=BelatedGamer;50735449]Is this satire[/QUOTE]
How would that be satire? isnt that exactly what happened? they let him in and took care of him to the best of their abilities within reason and he axes some people on a train...
Germany if for case of argument considered a person CLEARLY is the good guy here... and NOT the guy with the axe.
[QUOTE=Melnek;50737342]Gee I dont know maybe he wasnt running from ISIS but actually sympathised with them?[/QUOTE]
Could have been radicalized after the emigration, too. Radicalization is a dial, not a switch. Recruiters may have been working on on him for some time, slowly turning that dial. It may have also been exacerbated by xenophobic sentiment directed at Muslims and Arabs, causing him to feel alienated from his host society and making the process easier.
There's really no way to know without further info.
[QUOTE=Warmeup;50734953]Poor Germany <3. Germans trying to be 2 kind with foreigners and this is what they get.[/QUOTE]
Oh shut up. What about the majority of refugees/immigrants/foreigners who are absolutely LOVING living in Germany? As soon as we forget that shit Daesh have won and they seem to be winning every single day every time sentiments like yours show up. Stop generalizing. Stop dividing. Stop with this endless polarization of the sides which grants us nothing but hate and more hate. We don't need any more hate.
Instead of expressing a glowing hate every time something like this happens - be the stronger person and express sorrow or love, or forget about it. Be constructive.
Thank god he had no gun.
[QUOTE=Hinterlight;50737289]If this is true then I just cannot wrap my head around he mindset of people who do things like this. Why in God's name would you flee from a country, presumably because of fear of ISIS, and then go out and attack people in the name of ISIS? Wasn't that shit exactly the stuff you were fleeing from?
Do you have a source for that claim on the flag?[/QUOTE]
Living or growing up in a broken country filled with war certainly leaves you an aching wound. Daesh are incredibly fast and effective with their propaganda. Growing up in a situation like that, especially as a young teen at around 17 years old, probably leaves you in a easily manipulative state of mind.
You are either asked to fight against the Western powers who "started it all" before you were even born (which in many different ways we did, we are absolutely 100% included in this war, but no one wants to take responsibility so this will all continue) with Daesh who claims to rebel against them, or you try to muster up against this absolutely terrifying enemy. As a kid.
It's really not hard math, anyone can be brainwashed into thinking anything. When you add things together it starts to make sense, at least it does to me.
[QUOTE=Warmeup;50734953]Poor Germany <3. Germans trying to be 2 kind with foreigners and this is what they get.[/QUOTE]
Victim blaming at its (un-)finest.
Is this the new normal now? Terror attacks every few days?
2016 is a hell of a year.
[QUOTE=CasualTR;50738441]Is this the new normal now? Terror attacks every few days?
2016 is a hell of a year.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I can't even keep up with changing my facebook profile pic :v:
Many people say that there aren't more terror attacks than before or religious motivated attacks but it gets progressively worse.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-state_terrorist_incidents#1970.E2.80.93present[/url]
While terror incidents for the January - June 2011 had all enough space on one page, 2016 has a page for EVERY MONTH.
[QUOTE=baslan;50737815]You have to learn to live with islamic terrorism, sorry.
[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-15/learning-to-live-with-islamic-terrorism-in-france-and-beyond[/url][/QUOTE]
The government have a responsibility to protect its citizens. If that means we have to deport thousands upon thousands then so be it. The West should NOT learn to live with terrorism.
[QUOTE=smurfy;50734867]Only 4 injured apparently, initial reports were inaccurate (BBC article in OP has updated)[/QUOTE]
Injured is one of those "nice" words that really doesn't tell the tale of what happened. 3 people were seriously injured by this guy, and by an axe. You don't need to be a forensics expert to guess how fucked up that must have been.
I hope all of these people make a full recovery and with no permanent damage.
source updated, says ISIS released video of attacker making threats, also
[quote]tweet by Green MP Renate Kuenast asking why police had killed the attacker rather then injuring him.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36832909[/url]
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