Premier Giuseppe Conte on
Thursday sent a message of solidarity to the German people and
the families of the victims of the "insane hatred without any
respect for human life" in the "terrible massacre at #Hunau".
Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said that Italy and Germany
were "united in the fight against extremism".
A shooter with suspected far-right beliefs killed nine people
at a shisha bar and a cafe in the German city, police said
Thursday, before apparently killing himself and his mother.
Federal counter-terror prosecutors announced they were
investigating the case, which showed "signs of a xenophobic
motive", a spokesman told AFP.
Among the dead were "several victims of Kurdish origin", the
Kon-Med association of Kurds in Germany said in a statement,
adding that it was "furious" that authorities were not doing
more to combat rightwing extremism.
BILD said a pregnant woman had been among the victims.
Alarm has been growing about an increasingly emboldened
far-right movement in Germany, following a deadly anti-Semitic
attack in Halle and the murder of a pro-migrant politician last
year.
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