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    20 days ago

    Falls hier noch jemand reinschauen sollte, Update vom BBC Ticker

    Two Jewish people were killed and three left in a serious condition after a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester on Thursday.

    The victims have been named as Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66. One of the victims was hit by police gunfire “as a tragic and unforeseen consequence” as officers shot the attacker, Greater Manchester Police said.

    The suspect, who was shot dead at the scene, has been named as 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent.

    The attack occurred during worship at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar, and is being treated by police as a terror incident.

    Police have named the man who carried out the attack as Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, a British citizen of Syrian descent who was living in Prestwitch, Manchester.

    It is understood he entered the UK as a very young child, and was granted British citizenship in 2006 as a minor.

    Greater Manchester Police said late on Friday that at this stage in its investigation it believes Al-Shamie “may have been influenced by extreme Islamist ideology”.

    But it said establishing the full circumstances of the attack will likely take some time.

    His family said in a statement: "We fully distance ourselves from this attack and express our deep shock and sorrow over what has happened.

    “Our hearts and thoughts are with the victims and their families, and we pray for their strength and comfort.”

    The suspect’s name has not appeared in initial searches of police and security service counter-terrorism records.

    But Greater Manchester Police said he had a non-counter-terror criminal history, including “a recent arrest for rape, which resulted in him being bailed”.

    A police source told the BBC Al-Shamie was on police bail for an alleged rape when he carried out the attack.

    Greater Manchester Police said six other suspects have been arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism.

    Police initially said they had arrested two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s. It later said one man and two women, aged between 18 and mid-40s, had also been arrested.

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      21 days ago

      Der mutmaßliche Täter wurde erschossen. Bislang habe ich keine reputable Quelle mit Informationen zu seinem Hintergrund gesehen.

      • baleanar@discuss.tchncs.de
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        21 days ago

        Ja, wer er war wird sich noch herausstellen. Der Bibi tönt sicherlich schon rum über Antisemitismus. Wenn raus kommt es war ein Jude wäre das ein absolutes Theater.