The quick action of the police has probably prevented an even worse bloodshed in the killing spree during a community meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hamburg. But the hatred with which the alleged perpetrator killed seven people and finally himself did not come out of nowhere. In January, an anonymous whistleblower drew the weapons authorities’ attention to Philipp F.’s “particular anger towards religious supporters, especially towards Jehovah’s Witnesses,” said Hamburg’s police chief Ralf Martin Meyer on Friday. Also: Again, the alleged perpetrator is a marksman.
