Jammed homemade guns appeared to stop Halle attacker killing more
Source: The Guardian
Jammed homemade guns appeared to stop Halle attacker killing more
Footage streamed by gunman shows him becoming frustrated at malfunctioning weapons
Philip Oltermann in Halle and Lois Beckett in New York
Thu 10 Oct 2019 14.08 BST
First published on Thu 10 Oct 2019 09.54 BST
The deadly attack carried out by a masked gunman in eastern Germany would have ended with many more victims if his homemade firearms had not malfunctioned, footage broadcast on a livestreaming platform suggests.
The gunman, who tried to force his way into a synagogue in the town of Halle on Wednesday before killing two people, broadcast his rampage on the Twitch platform.
The footage shows the suspect becoming increasingly frustrated as his homemade weapons repeatedly malfunction. In at least three instances the video shows the suspect pointing a gun directly at a victim only for the weapon to jam.
Calling himself a loser, at one point he says: I have certainly managed to prove how absurd improvised weapons are.
Germanys chief federal prosecutor Peter Frank said on Thursday that the suspect wanted to carry out a massacre and had about four kilograms of explosives in his car.
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