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German police have begun a murder investigation after a long-time member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's party was shot dead outside his home. Walter Lubcke, 65, was discovered in his garden in the early hours of Sunday morning with a gunshot wound to the head that was "fired at close range", prosecutors have said. A motive has not yet been established. Suicide has been ruled out.
In 2015, Mr Lubcke publicly supported allowing refugees to settle in Germany, and told anyone who opposed this that they were "free to leave". These comments, which were made at a town hall meeting in Lohfelden, led to him being given temporary police protection after he received threatening messages.
originally posted by: Goedhardt
a reply to: Wardaddy454
Filming on streets in Germany is not really easy. Privacy laws are really strict over there. I’m actually not even alowed to use my dashcam when I drive over, to do my shopping in Germany ( I live in the Netherlands, 10 minutes from the border).
Also Google streetview is mostly unavailable in Germany due to the privacy laws.
originally posted by: Goedhardt
a reply to: Wardaddy454
Filming on streets in Germany is not really easy. Privacy laws are really strict over there. I’m actually not even alowed to use my dashcam when I drive over, to do my shopping in Germany ( I live in the Netherlands, 10 minutes from the border).
Also Google streetview is mostly unavailable in Germany due to the privacy laws.
originally posted by: Wardaddy454
Where did he live in Germany?
Reason I ask is that I've heard the cities are pretty much like London, with cameras everywhere.
originally posted by: LogicalGraphitti
You'd only have to look to those that own a gun and pay them a visit. After all, aren't guns rare and well controlled? I'm sure those that do are well known to the federal government.
Let's see if we ever get an answer to this incident. I'm not holding my breath. It's not like the Germans like bad press.
originally posted by: ArMaP
originally posted by: Wardaddy454
Where did he live in Germany?
Reason I ask is that I've heard the cities are pretty much like London, with cameras everywhere.
He lived in a village with only some 900 inhabitants, and was found on his house's terrace, so I don't think there will be any cameras that could be used to help solve the case.
originally posted by: mightmight
So they arrested a young man who apparently had a 'private relationship' with the victim.
No details yet, but this doesn't look like a political motivated crime.
On Saturday, a man was placed under “provisional arrest” after police analysed data on Lübcke’s mobile phone, but he was released in the early hours of Sunday. “The questioning did not yield any evidence pointing to complicity in the crime,” police said.
Investigators denied claims, originally made by the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that the person detained was a young man who had a “private relationship” with Lübcke.
Germany probes 'right-wing extremist' murder of politician
A politician has been murdered in an apparent execution-style assassination. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has described the attack as "right-wing extremist" in nature, saying it was "directed against us all."