Shots fired at synagogue in Pittsburgh: the Alleged shooter is said to have announced the fact on the right Internet portal

The alleged perpetrator of the shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh to be noticed according to media reports in social networks by right-wing comments. Accordingly, it is a 46-year-old American. According to official information, the man in the hospital is treated. He may have been shot by police officers.

On Saturday are shot at the "Tree of Life"synagogue in Pittsburgh during a Church service on the Jewish Sabbath eleven people and six people have been injured. The announced Wendell Hissrich, Director of Public safety for the city of Pittsburgh. A spokeswoman for the County Allegheny had stated that four policemen were injured. At the scene, a suspect was arrested.

U.S. officials have identified the man as Robert b. On the Internet platform "Gave" wrote a man with this name, according to US media a few hours before the crime, he could no longer sit idly by as his people were slaughtered: "HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in." Roughly translates to: "HIAS (a Jewish refugee aid organization) like invaders who kill our people. I can not sit idly by as my people are slaughtered. Fuck your perspective, I'm me."

"Gave" is a right-facing Portal, among other things, for the supporters of the radical right-wing "Old Right"movement, and is referred to in U.S. media as "the Twitter for racists".

The Jewish organization HIAS, and promoting the protection of Refugees, said on its website on the case: "There are no words that Express how much we are shaken by the events in Pittsburgh... We pray that the American Jewish community and the country can find a cure."

A "hate crime"

A local television station had to die reported, citing eyewitnesses, the gunman had gone to the synagogue and uttered the words: "All the Jews."

An exact number of casualties should be announced, if it is fully hedged, said Wendell Hissrich, Director of Public safety for the city of Pittsburgh. Sure was, that six people were injured, four of them police officers. "It is very bad," said Hissrich. "I've seen a lot, including plane crashes," he said. The scenes in the synagogue were among the worst he had seen so far. Hissrich said it was a "hate crime".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the shots sharp. "My heart is broken and I am disgusted by the murderous attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh," said Netanyahu in a Video Statement. "The entire Israeli nation mourns with the families of the dead." He assured the Affected and bereaved support. "We stand together with the American people in the face of this terrible anti-Semitic brutality," he said. The Israeli Consul General in New York, Dani Dayan, who had previously declared the action to be considered an internal matter of Israel, even if it had happened thousands of kilometers from Israel.

The world Jewish Congress (WJC) was shocked. In the case of the incident was a "heinous act of terrorism," said WJC President Ronald Lauder in New York. "This was an attack not only on the Jewish community, but to the whole of America."

The shots of Pittsburgh are the culmination of a series of anti-Semitic offences in the past few years. In Europe, there were in the past two decades, a number of attacks on Jewish institutions.

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