all these attacks but given that today is young kapoor and one of the shootings he said to have happened near a synagogue and there a jewish calendar let us look at matters arising from that watching jack is w.'s religious fast correspondent welcome on to. so close to the synagogue what are you hearing well i mean you know. sort of the perfect target in some sense i mean if one is looking to attack the jewish community today the main day in which the jewish community congregates itself in its house of prayer i mean these are the high holy days new year for the day of atonement and that of course means is a group that is sort of more in these conditions of course a lot more a lot more exposed very same time. that we had been given up to seem to indicate that. actually the target is something that i think it's quite important to sort of keep judgment until we get more concrete

information about. what does it signify how important is it. being new year and being the day of atonement are. very proximate to each other about a week and they are considered to be the very of the jewish calendar this is a time of basically a time of reflection jews around the world. during this day. broken at the end of the day in a family dinner during that period of. people mostly spend it in the scene. so during these 20. 5 different religious services that essentially keep people in the synagogue surrounding this unusual. you know you would find people congregated in prayers as i said before we have reported numerous times.

here in germany. do. i think that there is no doubt that there has been a writes in and takes me to. play. you know there has been sort of. jews around germany last friday we actually had a frustrated attempt at an attack here in berlin very near there. which was actually stopped by the police by what seems to be a member of the same community but at the same time there is a rising wave of right wing old anti-semitism we could say this is the context in which the jewish community has been talking about patients with questions of anti-semitism in their position in germany the question of jewish life is of course a very very particular one because of the very troubled history of germany it took a very long time for these communities to be rebuilt to say it is understandable

that for germany as a whole the well being of the jewish community is actually a central political social and cultural issue and this is something that the politicians do seem to be taking seriously it is routine to see police offices. jewish communities across germany jewish communities across europe are heavily guarded. this is by and large a product of. jewish centers over the last couple of years i mean one with remember . even. every time one of the things happens there is of course heightened state of alert and therefore there is more security but any given day of the week one would go to any germany and what would one would find police. guarding guarding the place and the political. jewish community leaders with. being taken seriously by government i think that by and large it was very

well received the fact that this government put in place essentially a government position for dealing with anti-semitism a couple of years ago there is such a very strong commitment with already. to the left and to the right. case however seems to be you know these things do not go far enough in the. danger expressed in things like. attacks in the streets and some of the. right. so we're in a situation then where where we have these a attacks targeted and a general rise in semitism i have seen in the past in communities in jewish communities in london where there's been a sort of a backlash if you like where jewish communities are formed their own vigilante groups is there any sign of that actually do not know i have not heard of anything

of the kind nonetheless what we do. is sort of a sense of very strong cooperation with police departments and very strong cooperation with security forces because as i said before there is a very strong commitment from germany to you know the stakes in the well being of the jewish community germany so it's very. that being said dissidents like quite a cordon aided attack what we cannot say really is exactly in what sort of and what base of the political spectrum this might fall and i think that this is really what we should be very careful from indulging in absolutely absolutely. that is the 1st correspondent thank you so much for that assessment you're welcome and just remind you that this story that we're covering here at the top here at least 2 people killed in attacks in the eastern german city of hama police have arrested a suspect and are looking for others thought to have fled the city. while services

were taking place for young couple the holiest day in the jewish calendar their ports of a separate incident. and the city police say shots have also been filed in the town of landsborough as around 15 kilometers away the federal antiterrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation police warn the public to remain alert and stay indoors german authorities have confirmed that they have closed at the city's my train station until the notice. so this is going. situation quite fluid at the moment political star brings up to date what more do we know at this stage holmes well you mentioned one of the key words phil the fact that this is an ongoing fluid situation and when we have ongoing fluid situations authorities tend to be very guarded about what they reveal than what they don't because they don't want to lead it to any speculation or even create

a bigger sense of uncertainty than what there already is in a place like that has suffered this incident today to what authorities have revealed so far could be considerate could be analyzed as being rather little they have said for example that 2 people are confirmed dead that they heard multiple shots you mentioned the fact they were possible various locations they have spoken of more than one shooter so they've used the word shooters in the plural and they have detained one person you also mentioned one of the other arguments that is important to stress the fact that the main investigation has been moved from regional authorities to federal authorities the federal prosecutor described as the terror prosecutor deals with cases that directly affect the german state and the such if they take over this investigation it gives the whole situation another level of importance in this particular case it does not necessarily mean that they

believe that they could be a terrible behind this it does mean that they're investigating also in that direction thomas thank you for staying with us let's hear from someone who witnessed a one of those shootings there was a shooting outside the kebab shop in holland let's hear his account. i saw a man in a home and he was right outside the combat shop behind an old lady. he was wearing an army uniform everything looked very militaristic he had a weapon in his hand in the mosque on. and it looked like he had a hand grenade or something else like maybe if i cracked and he wanted to throw it into the shop. but it hit the door and exploded in front of the old woman with the huge bang then he came into the shop and opened fire. and everyone ran away shouting and screaming towards the staircase which was heading out the back of the shop. and i saw the entrance to the toilets where i he had everyone else tried to

find a way out or even a window. and just it wasn't on that into also going on there was another loud explosion and a lot of shouting opposition that picked. up one by 20 and then suddenly it grew silent. enough before i rang the police and they said i should stay in the toilet because i just wanted to take said my family and my parents. eventually i heard the police arrive they wanted to know if someone was there they secured the area i yelled out that i was there i held up my arms and they briefly search me and. as i can't say a lot about the attackers nationality because he was wearing a mosque but there were some gaps in it and i'm guessing it was a white guy based on that. bus and vice of a but i'm really not so sure because i was in

a state of shock at the time. and i can say that he was very determined to get into this particular combat shop. in these lot and. gave everything happened so quickly in the 1st few seconds after he opened fire and everyone ran away right after that. i don't remember how long i was hiding in the toilet it probably wasn't longer than 10 minutes. but it felt. that he has. a distressing account today incidents in eastern germany political correspondent thomas part of germany of course already heightened heightened sense of already suffered a heightened sense of insecurity after yesterday's incidents we had a very different incident yesterday in another german state in the german state of where someone took a truck or a lorry and drove it into various. authorities to

investigate again whether they could be any possible link to terror what the possible motivation could have been behind that separate incident yesterday but what that separate incident yesterday and the incident we're discussing now have caused this probably a heightened sense of insecurity among them it's important to stress this because until these 2 agencies many in germany were not discussing the issue of security other topics were higher on the agenda for example climate and the fact is now in the last 2 days most of the political discussions and most of the discussions as well among the general public have been about these incidents and security in the country and aspiring political correspondent thank you for them to remind you that of the top story at this hour at least 2 people killed in multiple shootings in the eastern german city of how the police have arrested one suspect on the list of those who fought to fled into the main railway station is from close to people who

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