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Who was mass murderer Tobias R.? Here is a photo from 1996.
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A look into the past shows that he once led a normal life. Here: A class photo from 1996.
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On Wednesday, R. killed ten people in the German city of Hanau – nine of them had a migration background.
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Mercedes also fell victim to R. * († 35).
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In the end, R. kills himself.
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Before he became a mass murderer, Tobias R. * († 43) led a normal life. He was an amateur footballer, sports shooter and professionally successful. But then he changed and became a cold-blooded killer. R. murdered ten people in Hanau (D) on Wednesday – nine of them had a migration background. Finally, he killed his own mother. Then he judged himself.
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But how could the normal boy from Hanau become a right-wing extremist mass murderer?
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Part of a “multicultural group”
Tobias R. was born on February 17th, 1977 in Hanau. He grows up in good conditions, his parents do everything for him. His father is a business economist, his mother († 72) housewife, like a long-time friend “Image” tells. The two spent a lot of time together. “We were a group of almost 30 young people, the coolest multicultural group from Hanau,” says the youth friend. In the Abi yearbook, his classmates also describe him as follows: «One of the most accomplished people of the year. Makes on super cool and career. Often gushes without content and goal. It fluctuates between nice and hyperaggressive, »they say.
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According to “Bild”, R. played soccer in the youngsters of Eintracht Frankfurt, sometimes even under today’s star coach Jürgen Klopp. A knee injury ended his career abruptly – a severe blow for him. At that time, he is said to have changed, his childhood friend says. R. had raced through Hanau by car, aimed at people with a start pistol and said: “We’ll all get them.” He was a torn guy who lived a life between gibberish and gangsta rap.
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“He was totally unremarkable”
After completing his business studies, he started a career in an insurance company. Two years ago, he quit his employer in a dispute. He lived with his parents until his death. In addition, he is said to have never had a girlfriend – that was striking for acquaintances. Due to an extreme right-wing attitude, he apparently did not stand out. In the shooting club Diana Bergen-Enkheim, of which he was a member, there was no sign of the coming catastrophe. According to the association, he never appeared with xenophobic attacks. “It was totally unremarkable,” said Chairman Claus Schmidt to “Stern”.
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Tobias R. appeared to the authorities for the first time in November last year. At that time, he filed a criminal complaint against an unknown secret service organization. The ad was 19 pages long and is said to have contained several passages of his farewell manifesto – the manifesto that he published on the Internet shortly before his attack. There was no investigation.
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Open questions
Then his behavior becomes more and more confused, takes on paranoid features. He believes he is being monitored. He publishes his views on the world on his website. His writings show that he believed that certain peoples should be destroyed. He names countries such as Syria, Morocco, Vietnam and Laos. Four days before his act, he recorded a video and talked about invisible, secret societies.
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The same day, a surveillance camera films him in a betting shop – did he spy on a possible target? One does not know. It is one of many open questions, the answers of which R. may have taken to the grave forever.
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