Shooting Story

We had a shooting here in Hessen over the weekend, and it's one of those oddball stories which will make Germans ask questions.

The location?  Wetzlar....about forty km's north of Frankfurt.  It's a decent sized town....50,000 on the outer boundary of Frankfurt. 

So the dead guy is 39 years old, and he was shot (not knifed as you see a fair number in Germany these days).

Cops?  They say this was a combined political and family situation. 

They say that a 27-year old guy shot the older guy dead.  So far, they haven't found this 27-year old guy. 

But here's the curious part....this all leads back to Turkey. The dead guy was a Kurd, and part of a bigger Kurd clan (from the eastern side of Turkey).  Back in 2017.....three members of one single Kurd family were shot dead in a voting station.  They were members of a particular party (HDP is suggested). 

The talk here is that the dead guy was an opposition party guy (AKP) around this time, and the German cops suggest that the dead guy had some role or part in the deaths of the three others (they were all Kurds). 

So the dead guy lived in Hessen?  No...that's the other curious thing.  He (the dead guy) had relocated into the Pfalz area (Kreuznach) in the past year or two.  He'd come up for the day to attend some memorial service.

It would appear that the shooter noted the guy, his relationship to the 2017 murders, and just simply acted out of a revenge situation. 

A German would look at this and really question how safe it is.....with revenge killing going on, and all of this related to business going back to the old country.  It just invites more negativity about 'new' folks, and how the integration business will work in the long run.