A 21-year-old man has been arrested following the fatal attacks in spa facilities in and near the city of Atlanta, Georgia.
- On Tuesday (March 13th, 2021), three massage salons in Atlanta in the USA eight people shot.
- A 21-year-old from the US state Georgia is arrested after a car chase.
- US President Joe Biden has joined the debate on hatred of citizens of Asian descent.
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+++ 4:45 p.m .: With sharp criticism, activists have: inside in the USA on the statements of the police chief of Atlanta reacted. Jay Baker had said at noon, among other things, the alleged perpetrator of eight people in massage parlors in Atlanta shot, had a bad day. Among other things, the 21-year-old’s sex addiction is rated as a motive.
The outcry in the USA is big. The reaction of the police on the act shows how Asian-American women are routinely dehumanized, writes the Daily Beast. Seven women were among the victims, several of whom had Asian roots.
Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, throws the police pretend that she doesn’t understand “how racism works in this country ”. That was the first thing she thought about when the police said the act was not a racially motivated crime, Choimorrow is quoted in a report by the Daily Beast.
After the fatal attacks in massage parlors in Atlanta, USA, a debate about hatred of Asian citizens has broken out.
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Femicide in Georgia: Atlanta police chief speaks out
+++ 13:05 p.m .: At a press conference, Atlanta Police Chief Jay Baker spoke up about the Femicide in Atlanta voiced. The 21-year-old suspect knew what he was doing, said Baker. He was at the end of his tether and “had a bad day”.
The 21-year-old has now admitted that on Tuesday (March 13th, 2021) several shots in three Massage-Salons in Atlanta to have given up. Eight people were killed in the attacks. There are seven women among the victims. In a first interrogation, the suspect stated that Massage-Salons to feel as “temptation”. He wanted to eliminate this.
Attack on massage parlors in the USA: 21-year-old arrested after being chased
Update from Thursday, March 18, 2021, 11.47 a.m .: After the fatal shots in several Massage-Salons in Atlanta On Tuesday (March 16, 2021) further details about the alleged perpetrator became known. As reported by the Daily Beast, a 21-year-old is from the US state of Georgia been arrested. According to the report, the man is said to have a great passion for weapons and God. He is said to have been filmed in the act and later arrested by police after a car chase on the highway.
During the attack on Tuesday noon (local time), three massage parlors were in US state of Georgia a total of eight people have been shot. According to tagesschau.de, seven of the victims are women, six with Asian roots. In the USA In the course of this, a debate has broken out about hatred of citizens of Asian descent.
Blood deed in Atlanta, USA: Suspect speaks of sex addiction
US President Joe Biden last week condemned the attacks on citizens of Asian origin as un-American in a speech. That has to stop – and immediately. Shortly before, his press spokeswoman Jen Psaki had also blamed Donald Trump for the growing hatred of Americans of Asian origin.
the police refrains from commenting on the possible motive. One is still at the very beginning of the investigation, said the police chief of Atlanta, Rodney Bryant, during a press conference. The Cherookee County Sheriff stated that the 21-year-old had problems and during his questioning Sex addiction have spoken.
Fatal shots in Atlanta: massage parlors as a “temptation”
The 21-year-old stated that Massage-Salons to be seen as a “temptation” that he wants to remove. In addition, he is said to have stated that he had in Florida want to continue killing if it had not been stopped.
According to tagesschau.de, the man is to be brought before the judge on Thursday.
Georgia State: Eight people shot dead in massage parlors
Atlanta – Eight people were shot dead in the southern US state of Georgia. In Cherokee County, about 60 kilometers north of Atlanta, the police found two people shot dead and three injured in an Asian massage parlor on Tuesday afternoon (local time), according to CNN and NBC News, citing the police. Two injured died in the hospital. A motive is not yet known.
Dead in Georgia: Suspect arrested
In Atlanta, the police were called after a robbery on a wellness facility – and discovered three people shot dead at the scene. Not far away, another dead person was found in an aromatherapy spa, said Atlanta police chief Rodney Bryant. Motives are not known. The four victims are female and appear to have Asian roots. According to the authorities, the incidents are unrelated to each other. It was too early to make connections, said Bryant.
A good three hours after the shooting in Cherokee County, a 21-year-old suspect was taken into custody about 150 miles south of Atlanta, the police said. (dpa, uf)
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