The terrorist attack in Hamburg: the author of the shooting was a man with an apocalyptic and paranoid mindset

Details that become known about the perpetrator of the massacre Jehovah witnesses in Germany they draw a man with an anxious character who has written a book with apocalyptic overtones and shows signs of paranoia.

Who is the person the police identified Philip F.35-year-old former Jehovah’s Witness who killed six people from his former congregation Thursday evening at Hamburg And after he committed suicide?

According to the German press, no one seems to know him next door to his modest apartment, a gray building in the western part of this northern German city.

On her personal website and on her LinkedIn account, which AFP was able to consult, he presents himself as a successful businessman, behind an address in a wealthy area in the city center, a simple post box, according to the German weekly Spiegel.

exorbitant fee

On the website, he offers consulting and general management services in the areas of “management control, finance and accounting” for an exorbitant fee of 250,000 euros per day.

He justifies these prices with his ability to “generate €2.5 million in added value” for companies that request his services and his “holistic” vision, taking “theology and law” into account.

The professional page is full of references to the Bible and football, especially Liverpool.

In her, Philip F. he talks about disparate topics, between ditching internal combustion engines and “maximizing the happiness of human and animal lives.”

In one of his many prophetic comments, he foresees “a great change in the architecture of the world in which we live” and the skies “where ghost people live.”

He is also promoting a self-published book in Amazon, The Truth About God, Jesus Christ, and Satan. His purpose? A 292-page guide for “all those who have managerial functions in the fields of economics, science, politics and leisure.”

Journey to hell

In the book that Amazon left his podium, but what Spiegel and other German media could read, he wrote that he went through “a personal journey to hell that lasted over three years” and that there was a “higher heavenly government” with 101 million spiritual beings.

The text, which includes fundamentalist prose and managerial idioms, focuses on the coronavirus pandemic and war Ukraine as divine punishment.

Fearing a third world war Philip F. According to Der Spiegel, he developed a pro-Russian and misogynistic discourse.

By his own account, he grew up in a “strict” evangelical family. The incident made him feel the need for spirituality.

As a child, he adds, he had “prophetic dreams.”

Lonely, Philip F. He lost his last job as an employee in 2020 and has been posing as a financial advisor ever since.

According to investigators, he had conflicts with several companies, as he filed several lawsuits, especially against the Bavarian company where he worked.

The man legally had a gun with which he shot at members of his former community.

In January, the police received an anonymous letter warning of a possible danger.

The agents went to meet him at the apartment, but found nothing serious and left. At the time, they were talking about a “collaborative” attitude.

The letter mentioned that he might be suffering from a “psychiatric illness”.

After the drama, it was determined that the man had “anger against Jehovah’s Witnesses.”

Several statements, according to the police, suggest that he was excluded from the group. Newspaper Build guarantees that this measure was given after the publication of the book. But others say he left voluntarily. (AFP)