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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#326: Jul 22nd 2016 at 12:59:07 PM

[up]you forgot a pothole.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#327: Jul 22nd 2016 at 12:59:36 PM

So the guys with submachine guns but no helmets were probably regular officers?

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3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#328: Jul 22nd 2016 at 1:00:43 PM

Yeah, if its in vest with a MP 5 its a normal cop in heavy gear. Its what they wear in places like airports and main train stations usually.

edited 22nd Jul '16 1:02:48 PM by 3of4

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#329: Jul 22nd 2016 at 1:08:24 PM

@321 : ISIS claims responsibility for just about everything whether they were involved or not. Often just to say "our righteous jihad inspired these martyrs".

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#330: Jul 22nd 2016 at 1:09:07 PM

Death count is now up to 7 :/ A man with a headshot succumbed to it on the operating table

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#331: Jul 22nd 2016 at 1:16:24 PM

Apparantly there are several contradictory reports about what the attackers said during the shooting.

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#332: Jul 22nd 2016 at 2:04:20 PM

The most surreal thing about this seems to be the witness report about the guy in a Santa Claus suit.

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#334: Jul 22nd 2016 at 2:08:57 PM

One eye witness on n-tv has stated someone in a Santa Claus Suit (with sunglasses) was around before it started and was later seen standing there smiling.

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#335: Jul 22nd 2016 at 2:13:14 PM

Someone please call Deadpool.

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Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#337: Jul 23rd 2016 at 5:40:50 AM

The fact yesterday was the fifth anniversary of Breivik's rampage should've been a clue.

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#339: Jul 23rd 2016 at 6:36:43 AM

Inspiration / idolisation, it seems.

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Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#341: Jul 23rd 2016 at 7:04:07 AM

How so?

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#342: Jul 23rd 2016 at 7:50:45 AM

Probably the idea that someone with a migration background would idolize someone like that.

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Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#343: Jul 23rd 2016 at 7:55:24 AM

He was born in Munich, lived in Germany his entire life and considered himself to be German.

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Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#344: Jul 23rd 2016 at 7:58:32 AM

This details that are emerging suggest that he has no obvious links to radical Islamist groups, but seemed to have a keen fascination with spree shooters. The shooter in a witness video also spoke about living a welfare area and having no choice but to get a gun, and there are also rumors that he is a recent convert to Christianity.

I got say, if even half of this stuff turns out to be true then we can expect coverage and analysis of this incident to drop like a stone, at least in english language media, I'm not sure about elsewhere.

majoraoftime Since: Jun, 2009
#345: Jul 23rd 2016 at 9:31:14 AM

Could be he's more a Cho Seung-Hui type.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#346: Jul 23rd 2016 at 2:18:27 PM

Rumour I heard of was that he apparently lured some people into a McDonald's over Facebook. Is that true?

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3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#347: Jul 23rd 2016 at 2:20:30 PM

No idea.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#348: Jul 23rd 2016 at 2:22:59 PM

Apparently, these folks were kids. In which case, if true, OW. When I went to school in Germany the school ran a sort of seminar about behaviour on the Internet and one of the things said was to never do this exact thing, to meet someone you don't know personally after encountering them on the Internet.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#349: Jul 23rd 2016 at 2:25:17 PM

I heard he pretended to be a official Mc Donalds social media account announcing a discount or something.

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TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#350: Jul 24th 2016 at 9:55:12 AM

Apparently there's been a machete attack by Syrian refugee in Reutlingen, Germany. According to eye-witnesses, after a brief argument with a woman, the man killed her with the blade. Two others have also been wounded. The police have said that the man in question is known to have been involved in other violent episodes.

Working of a Finnish article here, but it was first published in Bild.

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edited 24th Jul '16 9:55:31 AM by TerminusEst

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