Three people were killed and several others were wounded, after a man their has dark top, before committing suicide by ball, this Saturday, April 7 with Munster.
The ministry for the German Interior evokes an assessment of at least three deaths and about twenty casualties including six in a serious condition. The police specified that it was too early to speak about an attack.
According to the online edition of Spiegel, the German authorities consider at this stage that it is about an attack. But the police does not have for the moment not confirmed the terrorist character of the event, evoking only one “attack” and incentive with prudence on the social networks with these words: “pas de speculations”. Several German media indicate that the author of the attack suffered from psychiatric disorders.
The German government indicated via one of its spokesperson, Ulrike Demmer, that its thoughts went to the victims and their close relations after “the terrible news come from Munster”.
The facts proceeded around 15:30 local time in the downtown area of Munster, in the west of the country, at one hour very attended where the terraces were full and the trade filled customers, in this sunny day.
The attack occurred on the terrace of Kiepenkerl, coffee which is called after the district in which it is located. It is within walking distance of the cathedral of Munster, town of 300,000 inhabitants located in the Moor of North Rhine–Westphalia.
If the origin of the facts is not established yet, they intervene in a context tended in Germany.
The German authorities are on the alert since one year and half because of several islamist attacks perpetrated or under consideration in the country, in particular that with the truck–ram asserted by the Islamic State group which caused 12 deaths in December 2016 on a Christmas market in Berlin.
This attack takes place one year day for day after the attack of Stockholm at the time which a truck–ram penetrated in a large pedestrian street of the center of Stockholm in Sweden. The attack had caused 5 deaths and 14 casualties. The truck had finished its race in an entry of store and its driver had managed to flee the scene of crime.
The police of the zone of Munster published on the social network: “There are deaths and casualties. Please to avoid the zone. More information can be found here. We are on the site.”
“#Kiepenkerl Es gibt Tote und Verletzte. Bollard den Bereich meiden. Mehr Infomationen gibt be yesterday. Wir sind VOR Ort
— Polizei NRW ms (@Polizei_nrw_ms) April 7th, 2018
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