Police Verify Leads on Perpetrator’s Possible Far-Right Ideology

But I also said at the same time that this would require verification.

I know that this stirs up a terribly large amount of emotion, mainly on that right-hand side, the right-wing side of politics, and it is not my intention here to be stirring up any emotions.

All of this has to be checked thoroughly. Three statements like that.

Everything indicates the perpetrator acted alone and held very radical views.

Everything indicates he was fascinated by far-right ideologies, though that will be subject to checks.

And those two halves of the sentence made people ask, how will it be verified?

So you're putting out something unverified, and questions came up.

In cases like this, initial hypotheses always come up.

There is always initial information, and there are always initial leads, and that is precisely why I made the statement that I made.

However, Where did it come from? What leads?

As I said, these are things that are now being checked by the police along with the evidence the police have in their possession.

I am not going to elaborate on that any further right now.

Only So either way, you're not taking those words back, so there are verifiable leads, right?

Sir, the police are looking into these leads, and I am saying this with full responsibility.

But the second part of that sentence, the part that I said on its own, that this is subject to verification, I think makes it quite clear that we are not passing any verdicts here.