Thursday, February 18, 2021

Remembering Hanau

 It's been a year since the Hanau attack, which ended up with ten dead and five wounded.  With the anniversary business, it's been hyped-up a good bit over the past month or two.  

To describe the entire episode?

You basically had a German guy....mid-forties...who had paranoid schizophrenia (he readily admitted voices in his head), who reached some point on blaming non-Germans for the problems in his life.  

He would go to the mid-town area around midnight....with a pistol and shot various folks in bars.  All were immigrant/migrant background.  

At the conclusion, he went back home...shot his mother dead, and then himself.

Another manifesto-guy?  Yeah.....that's another odd part to the story.

Claiming he was often followed by secret agents?  Well...yeah, he made that claim.  

The German authorities carried this investigation of the guy to the ninth-degree...mostly I think...because they wanted to label the guy up as an extremist.  But the more you put on the table about the guy.....the more he appears as a mentally-challenged individual and should have been in some facility if there was an 'ounce' of threat in him to endanger others.  

If you went around Germany and hunted down all the manifesto-idiots?  You could be talking about a thousand of them.  

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