“An individual injured several people in an amphitheater with a long weapon”, communicated Monday, January 24 the police of Mannheim, in the south-west of Germany. The attack that claimed the life of the assailant took place in an amphitheater in Heidelberg.“The author himself is dead”, said the local police, without saying whether or not he had been killed by the police who arrived in large numbers on the spot.
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According to the daily image, the shooter committed suicide. The police also indicated that they had no “not aware of a letter of claim”, while calling on public opinion to avoid speculation.
“No more imminent threat”
According to information from the public channel Südwestrundfunk (SWR), the university has asked its students by email not to go to the campus in the Neuenheimer Feld district for the moment. However, there would be “no more imminent threat”, selon SWR.
This university site, on the north bank of the Neckar river, notably hosts faculties of natural sciences, departments of the university hospital center and the botanical garden. Founded in 1386, it is the oldest university in Germany. With the motto “always open” – ” always open “ – the institution demonstrates its desire to work in a spirit of openness and tolerance
German firearms laws were tightened following two attacks on schools in the eastern city of Erfurt in April 2002 and in the southern city of Winnenden. West, in March 2009. The country now has one of the strictest laws in Europe requiring anyone under the age of 25 to pass a psychiatric examination before applying for a gun license.
