Three people have been arrested in Germany after a German-Turk allegedly shot dead a compatriot at a bar in Neumünster on Tuesday.
Armed police were dispatched to the bar at the corner of Kieler Straße and Johannisstraße at around 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening amid reports that a 24-year-old man had been killed.
It is believed an altercation occurred between two men, both German citizens of Turkish origin, before one pulled a gun and shot the other.
Police spokeswoman Stephanie Lage told Bild that a man was seriously injured and had to be resuscitated at the scene, but later died from his wounds.
Panic erupted as a group inside the bar attempted to overpower the gunman, forcing their way outside while screaming, with at least two additional shots believed to have been fired during the chaos.
Videos circulating online show the crowd struggling and shouting as they exited the establishment. Armed police officers, carrying submachine guns, quickly secured the area and blocked off public access to the scene.
The suspected 26-year-old shooter surrendered without resistance when confronted by police outside the bar. His firearm was seized.
Later that evening, police and the Kiel public prosecutor’s office confirmed the arrests of two further suspects, aged 29 and 34, both German nationals. “All three are currently in police custody,” authorities said in a joint statement.
Turks have long been the largest diaspora residing in Germany, and were second only to Syrians in the number of Turkish-born migrants naturalized last year.
Internal feuds among Turkish gangs are common. Just last week in Gelsenkirchen, one man was killed and two others were left in a critical condition after two Turkish families battled on the streets.
Approximately 30 people clashed in the Bismarck district of the heavily migrant city.
According to police, this was no ordinary brawl. The members of the two families were armed with baseball bats, tasers, knives, and other dangerous weapons during the clash.
In August, an 18-year-old Turk was arrested for the murder of a police officer who was responding to an armed robbery at a gas station in Völklingen. During a pursuit, the 34-year-old officer struggled with the suspect, who grabbed his service weapon and shot him six times.
In June, an 11-year-old boy was attacked by a Turkish-speaking suspect while walking through the German city of Dietzenbach.
Last year, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) council group in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, introduced a motion to cap the number of kebab shops and Turkish barbers in the city center, claiming too many new arrivals had disrupted the city’s cultural identity.
