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ONE PERSON HAS been killed and four others injured in a shooting outside a music venue in Berlin, German, according to authorities.
A spokeswoman for Berlin prosecutors said one or more people opened fire outside the Tempodrom, near Potsdamer Platz in the centre of the capital, before fleeing the scene.
A 42-year-old man was killed, spokeswoman Mona Lorenz told the Associated Press.
Four other people were injured, some seriously.
Lorenz could not confirm whether the injuries were caused by the gunfire.
Investigators do not yet have any indication about the motive for the shooting but it does not appear to be terrorism-related, she added.
The incident took place in a square in front of the Tempodrom as a Turkish comedy night was being staged inside.
Berlin has one of the highest numbers of killings per person among European capitals.
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So sad that we’re letting this happen over and over. In the future, people will look back and wonder why we stood by, idly as attack after attack claimed more lives.
@Barry Doyle: who is standing idly by?
@Barry Doyle: yeah, we need to ban people
@Barry Doyle: all people. Either that or all gatherings.
@Barry Doyle: people will look back and wonder why cowards hide behind fake accounts to talk racist bs
@Barry Doyle: Happened in Germany Bar
@Jim Buckley Barrett: I don’t know how you can accuse me of being racist. I never mentioned race and the article doesn’t mention the race of the shooter nor the victims.
I wonder does German News media run articles on every killing in Ireland? Perhaps they do only when undertones of terrorist attacks can be implied.
@Nostredamus Rebooted: they probably would report it if it was as newsworthy as a multiple victim shooting at a mass gathering in a culturally related country like this was.
@Nostredamus Rebooted: So, there should be no reporting of killings in case it offends people because the shooter may or may not have a different pigment of skin?
@Nostredamus Rebooted: Yeah my mate is living in Berlin. The chopping up of Mulready was all over the news over there
@Kevin O’ Brien: True that Kevin. But the rush to publish click bait stories before any attempt to foundate facts about the event, can be irresponsible, particularly when some in society are content to draw misinformed conclusions from skeletal reporting.
@Nostredamus Rebooted: how dare they report the news.
@Ross McDermott: Good point! But so many posters here only wake up and start spitting when it’s not our own home grown making the news. They seem to miss what our own are doing to each other all over the country and never bother to post.
@Nostredamus Rebooted: all the European papers ran the Regency Story.
@Barry Doyle. What would you like unarmed people to do exactly?
@Barney’s sister: I wouldn’t expect them to do anything. It’s not the duty of the citizenry to defend themselves; it’s the preeminent responsibility of the state.
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