- Title: Residents shocked by Muenster attack
- Date: 8th April 2018
- Summary: MUENSTER, GERMANY (APRIL 8, 2018) (REUTERS) TEARFUL PEOPLE HUGGING, WALKING AWAY VARIOUS OF VIGIL AT KIEPENKERL MONUMENT, OUTSIDE GROSSER KIEPENKERL RESTAURANT WHERE ATTACK TOOK PLACE / FLOWERS AND CANDLE RESTAURANT'S OUTDOOR SEATING AREA, WHERE THE ATTACK TOOK PLACE, NOW CORDONED OFF / MEDIA GATHERING NEARBY CANDLE AND FLOWERS AT VIGIL EXTERIOR OF RESTAURANT RESTAURANT SI
- Embargoed: 22nd April 2018 10:16
- Keywords: Germany Muenster crash attack raid western Germany Grosser Kiepenkerl
- Location: MUENSTER, GERMANY
- City: MUENSTER, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA0018AKIWCN
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: A vigil of candles and flowers outside the Grosser Kiepenkerl eatery in Muenster on Sunday (April 8) paid respects to victims of a van attack the day before in the western university city.
German investigators were trying to work out why a man drove a camper van into a group of people sitting at outside tables at the Grosser Kiepenkerl, a popular destination for tourists in the city's old town, on Saturday (April 7), killing two people before shooting himself dead.
Forensic police combed the scene on Sunday after investigators named the victims as a 51-year-old woman from the Lueneburg area in northern Germany and a 65-year-old man from the Borken area near Muenster. The perpetrator shot himself after crashing the silver-grey coloured van into the outside area of the restaurant, police said.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported in its online edition that the perpetrator was Jens R., 48, who resided some 2 km (1.2 miles) from the crime scene. Broadcaster ZDF said police were searching his apartment and that he had contact with far-right extremists, but there was no evidence thus far that he was a far-right extremist himself.
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung said the man had psychological problems. The Interior Ministry in North Rhine-Westphalia would neither confirm nor deny the report. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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