The man who opened fire outside of an LGBTQ bar in Slovakia on Wednesday was animated by the same ideas, including antisemitic beliefs, that have spurred multiple mass murderers in recent years. The shooter, who killed two people and injured a third outside the Tepláreň bar in Bratislava, the country’s capital, was a “radicalized teenager,” according to the Slovakian president. He released a manifesto prior to the shooting and also outlined his beliefs on Twitter, where extremism watchdogs said he had been active for more than a year. The shooter’s track record on Twitter “raises questions about the effectiveness of Twitter’s content moderation and the platform’s role in spreading white supremacist content,” the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism wrote in an analysis published Friday of the shooter’s manifesto and online profile. The analysis noted that the shooter, who was found dead on Thursday, had tweeted both about his plan to carry out an attack and to brag about having done so. In the manifesto, the ADL said, the shooter expressed hatred for LGBTQ individuals, saying that they “groom” children, and support for “great replacement theory,” the idea that Jews are orchestrating a campaign to “replace” white people with people of color. He also used multiple phrases coined by neo-Nazi groups and called for the genocide of Jews, according to the ADL’s analysis. The manifesto and its contents add the Bratislava shooting to a growing list of attacks that follow a similar playbook. Replacement theory has inspired multiple antisemitic and extremist attacks, including the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in which 11 Jews were murdered; the 2019 attack on a New Zealand mosque that killed 51; the 2019 massacre at a Texas Wal-Mart that targeted Hispanic immigrants; and the murder earlier this year of 11 Black shoppers in a Buffalo, New York, grocery store.
via jta: Shooter at Bratislava LGBTQ bar called in manifesto for murder of all Jews
siehe auch: 19-jähriger Angreifer – Tote und Verletzte nach Schüssen vor Gay Bar in #Bratislava – #terror #lgbtqi Mitten in der slowakischen Hauptstadt sind zwei Männer vor einer LGBTQI-Bar erschossen worden, eine Kellnerin wurde schwer verletzt. Auch der Schütze ist tot. Er soll vor seinem Tod Hassbotschaften verbreitet haben. Ein Angreifer hat am Mittwochabend im Zentrum der slowakischen Hauptstadt Bratislava vor einer Bar zwei 30-jährige Männer erschossen und eine Kellnerin schwer verletzt. Die Polizei gab bekannt, den Täter identifiziert zu haben. Er sei tot, hieß es auf ihrer offiziellen Facebook-Seite. Das Lokal, vor dem die beiden Männer erschossen wurden, ist ein Treffpunkt der LGBTQI-Szene und bewirbt sich selbst als »lovely gay bar in Bratislava centre«.; The Bratislava Attacks: Insights from the Shooter’s Manifesto GNET. On Wednesday 12 October 2022, two people were killed by a gunman outside an LGBT+ bar in Bratislava, Slovakia. The shooter, who was found to have died by suicide the next morning, had posted a manifesto online revealing violent white supremacist ideology, with a particular focus on anti-Jewish and anti-LGBT+ hatred. The attacker’s ideology and, to some extent modus operandi, was heavily inspired by the May 2022 shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and the shooter references terrorist attacks in Christchurch, Poway and El Paso as providing inspiration, as well as influence from Eastern Europe and Japanese ultranationalists. This Insight presents an initial analysis of the shooter’s manifesto and Twitter footprint and highlights how this attack is situated in the current terrorism landscape. It seeks to outline what is currently known about the shooter’s radicalisation pathway and ideological positions. Firstly, this Insight will identify the shooter’s extreme antisemitism, and the pervasion of his homophobia and transphobia, which join together under conspiracy theories which are repeatedly outlined in his manifesto. Secondly, the young age of the shooter will be discussed, as well as his radicalisation pathway as a teenager, following a trend of the increasing capabilities and agency of the young extreme right, independent of their older counterparts. (…) While the intricacies of the Bratislava shooter’s online footprint remain to be uncovered and analysed, initial analysis points towards the continuation of three main trends: the entrenchment of transphobic attitudes, the fusion of hatreds under an antisemitic ‘big tent’ conspiracy theory, and the decreasing age of terrorist actors. With clues littered over the shooter’s social media platforms, including on Twitter, questions will once again be raised about why this individual was not identified as a credible threat prior to the attack. While the shooter used some codes to evade content moderation, much of his online antisemitism and transphobia was explicit, and in the run-up to the attack, the language mirrored previous attackers. As Community Security Trust’s OSINT Manager Daniel Orelowitz comments, much of his online language falls under “legal but harmful” classifications, raising the question of the efficacy of platform policies
