Hanau shootings
| Hanau shootings | |
|---|---|
CCTV still of Rathjen pointing a 9mm handgun at a bartender of the La Votre Bar. | |
| Location | 50°07′59″N 08°54′48″E / 50.13306°N 8.91333°E (first crime scene)
50°07′51″N 08°53′9″E / 50.13083°N 8.88583°E (second crime scene) Hanau, Hesse, Germany |
| Date | 19 February 2020 21:55 - 22:00 (CET, UTC+1) |
| Target | Non-white people and Turkish or Muslim immigrants people that Rathjen thought were immigrants |
Attack type | Mass shooting, spree shooting, mass murder, domestic terrorism, hate crime, matricide, murder–suicide |
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| Deaths | 12 (including the perpetrator and his mother and a victim who died in 2026) |
| Injured | 5 (2 by direct gunshot) |
| Perpetrator | Tobias Rathjen |
| Motive | |
The Hanau shootings (German: Anschläge in Hanau) occurred on 19 February 2020, when nine people were killed and five others wounded in a terrorist shooting spree by a far-right extremist targeting three bars and a kiosk in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. After the attacks the gunman, identified as Tobias Rathjen, returned to his apartment, where he killed his mother and then committed suicide. The massacre was called an act of terrorism by the German Minister of Internal Affairs.