Police Investigate Suspect’s Possible Far-Right Views

But I also said that this would need to be verified.

I know this mainly stirs up a great deal of emotion, mainly on the right-wing side, the political side.

And it is not my intention to stir up emotion here.

All of this needs to be thoroughly checked. There were three such statements.

Everything points to the perpetrator acting alone and having very radical views. Yes.

Everything points to him having been fascinated by far-right ideologies, though this will be subject to verification. Yes.

And those two parts of that sentence led to the question: how will that be checked?

So you're giving us something unverified.

Questions arose. In cases like this, initial hypotheses always emerge, and initial information and clues always emerge.

And that's why I made that statement, not another one.

But—where did it come from? What were the leads?

As I said, these are things that the police are investigating now and evidence that is in the police's possession.

I'm not going to elaborate on that now, now.

That's only just—Anyway, you're not taking back those words.

There are leads that can be checked, right?

Mr. Editor, the police are investigating these leads.

I say this with full responsibility. But that second part of the sentence itself, which I said, that this is subject to verification, I think it clearly, clearly indicates that we're not passing any judgments here.