Germany : Several people have been killed in a shooting Jehovah's Witnesses building
 

https://news.sky.com/story/several-p...oting-12829920

[Several people have been killed
in a shooting in the northern German
city of Hamburg.
Hamburg Police say shots were fired
in a church in the Gross Borstel district,
with several people seriously injured
and some killed.
German newspaper Bild reports seven people
were killed and at least eight others injured.

The shooting occurred in a building used by
Jehovah's Witnesses, local media report.
Police said the motive for the attack is
currently unclear, as a number of armed
officers were pictured near the scene.]

As many on here know I myself am a JW. Those above comments aren't nice. Especially after what has happened. People have many misconceptions about us and I'm not going to get in a debate with people about it as people are rude on here to me whenever I bring it up. What I will say is we are peaceful people who refuse to get involved in violence and war. So this is really distressing that someone would trager us just because we wanted to be at our place of worship. You all may have your misconceptions but before you become cruel just think of the different people we have attend our meetings. Families. Children. Babies. Elderly. And we are human.

I'm gonna speculate that this is another Religious group that attacked this JW building?

RIP to the people that were killed during the attack.

I have my own theory. Sometimes people can leave and stop being a JW, and quite often when people do that they go to an extreme of hating us and wanting to attack at every opportunity whether it's online, social media, pamphlets etc. It could be a disgruntled former jw wanting some form of revenge.

It really is the lowest of the low attacking a place of worship

Yes

Also, you need to be truthful
it is not easy to leave these money making buggers.

They won't let you leave


BBC Documentaries on just that

They are not viewed as a proper church

Maybe not but the attack is still horrific
So
R.I.P to the victims.

Yes Shooting them dead
Evil.

I agree Jake pretty insensitive, we are, all people and this, an awful thing to happen.

awful crime

but i can't say i like the jehova's though, but then again same goes for salvation army, also not a fan of those

too cult-like for me personally

I want to thank you for that post and its content.

This is horrific.
Absolutely more senseless killings of innocent people.
Devastating for the families and all others now suffering the loss of loved ones.

Awful news.

Really tragic news.
I have nothing against JW. They've always been nice and polite to me.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/03...8442845633.jpg
[Armed German police officers storm
the church on Thursday night]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/03...8404165022.jpg

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...re-gunman.html

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/03...8442332850.jpg
[Phillip F., 35, (pictured)
a former member of this community,
was allegedly responsible
for the deadly attack that also injured
several other people, some seriously,
according to German tabloid Bild]


[Police say they found a dead person at the scene
who they believe may have been the perpetrator.]


7 dead
One of the killed was a pregnant lady, sadly.


Live SkyNewsHD Germany

You were spot on ...

Officials said the suspect had "ill feelings" towards the religious community, of which he had previously been a member before leaving "on bad terms".

i think that was announced before jake posted that

it's not my fault that i have copper wire on my telephone

life in the city

The cops are wire-tapping your phones?!

Jehova can be mean sometimes...

Can you Jake, as a JW tell us all why jehova allowed this to happen?

I had a feeling it was this aswell , what a nutter he is thinking it's ok to shoot & kill people.

He gave man free will, so it's man's fault and no one else's,

Crikey, they've changed there tune over the years.