Interested Person kills Bethelite in German Kingdom Hall, later is killed by train

by processor 18 Replies latest watchtower scandals

  • processor
    processor

    On Saturday, 35 Jehovah's Witnesses gathered in their Kingdom Hall near Frankfurt and sat over coffee and cake (for whatever reason, maybe pioneer school or some other event). Suddenly a 20-year-old man (according to most sources "not a JW yet, but wanted to become one"; though one source claims that he would have been an auxiliary pioneer) took a knife from the cake buffet and killed a 45-year-old Bethelite (maybe a circuit overseer).

    Today the murderer was killed by a train - supposedly suicide.

    http://www.thelocal.de/national/20101108-31031.html

  • minimus
    minimus

    Those crazy JWs!

  • Mary
    Mary

    Good lord. Do you have a link for this story?

  • processor
    processor
    Do you have a link for this story?

    Just found an English one and added it to the opening post.

    There are links to various German sources at http://forum.sektenausstieg.net/showthread.php?12762-Tragischer-Tod-zweier-Menschen-die-Zeugen-Jehovas-waren

  • cyberjesus
    cyberjesus

    Probably he was low on his hours and bethelite didnt want to make concessions.

  • Mary
    Mary

    Here's the story. Makes you wonder what the hell's going on:

    Train kills Jehovah's Witness stabbing suspect

    Published: 8 Nov 10 12:17 CET
    Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20101108-31031.html

    A fugitive 22-year-old believed to have stabbed another man to death at a Frankfurt centre for Jehovah’s Witnesses over the weekend has been killed by a train, police said on Monday. The man was found Sunday near the Eddersheim train station, where he had been run over by a high-speed ICE train, one day after he allegedly attacked a 45-year-old church member in Frankfurt’s Heddernheim district, police said.

    Officers found the man’s identification papers near the scene of the accident, and are now trying to determine whether his death was an accident or a suicide.

    On Saturday the two men reportedly got into an argument at a congregation lunch buffet. The conflict escalated and the younger man grabbed a kitchen knife from a counter top, stabbing the other man, who died at the scene.

    The stabber fled the church and police failed to locate him until his body was found the next day around 3 pm, they said.

    “Though a positive identification can only be insured after a DNA comparison, investigators assume that the deceased is the wanted 22-year-old,” a police statement said.

    According to a police spokesperson, the stabber was not yet part of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, though plans existed for his membership.

    In April 2010 an 83-year-old man was sentenced to 11 years in prison for attempted murder after storming a Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation with a machine gun, knife and samurai sword in the city of Bielefeld in 2009.

    He was unable to fire the weapon and was eventually overpowered by worshippers before he could inflict any damage, but the court in Halle judged the man guilty of 39 counts of attempted murder – the number of bullets he was carrying – as well as weapons charges.
  • Mad Sweeney
    Mad Sweeney

    JW interpretation: if you hurt or kill a JW in good standing, Jehovah makes you get hit by a train.

    Did there happen to be Smurfs on the train?

  • God_Delusion
    God_Delusion

    He was demon possessed.

  • DagothUr
    DagothUr

    A 83 years old man with a knife, a machine-gun and a katana? Jeez, them old people don't like the taste of the "new light", do they?

  • Billy the Ex-Bethelite
    Billy the Ex-Bethelite

    They are safe in Jehovah's memory, awaiting the resurrection. And isn't that really the best place to be?

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