Assassination attempt at Chapel Hill

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The attack in Chapel Hill (ger .: Chapel Hill shooting ) was a violent crime in the late afternoon of 10 February 2015 on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill , North Carolina occurred.

Facts and possible motive

The 23-year-old dentistry student Deah Shaddy Barakat, his 21-year-old wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and their 19-year-old sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha were shot in the head in the Finley Forest residential complex . All three victims were practicing Muslims ; the women wore headscarves .

As a perpetrator, the 46-year-old Craig Stephen Hicks turned himself in to the police in neighboring Pittsboro that night . According to the police, the motive for the crime is unclear; During interrogation, Hicks is said to have stated that he had argued with the victims about parking spaces.

Since Hicks had previously made repeated statements in which he identified himself as a militant atheist on his Facebook page , some media speculate about an anti-religious background. On Twitter , u. a. the hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter .

Controversy over media presence

The media coverage of the crime met with international criticism; both in their comparatively small extent and in the way they are presented. After only the local media had initially reported, the mass media only included the attack in their reporting due to the increasing focus on social media . Commentators also criticized the fact that the accentuation in the reporting varied depending on whether Muslims were victims or perpetrators, and opposed the media coverage of the crime, among other things, to the attack on Charlie Hebdo five weeks earlier.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Adam Withnall: Chapel Hill shooting: Three young Muslims gunned down in North Carolina family home , The Independent, February 11, 2015 (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d Sarah Kaplan: Killing of 3 in Chapel Hill stirs alarm among Muslims , Washington Post, February 11, 2015 (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d e Christoph Sydow: Bloody act in North Carolina: Murder of three young Muslims shakes America , Spiegel Online, February 11, 2015
  4. ↑ a b victim of a hater of Islam? Three young Muslims shot dead in the USA , German Turkish News , February 11, 2015.
  5. ↑ Sabbiyah Pervez: Chapel Hill shooting: Three young Muslims have been executed, but the media ignored it because of religion , The Independent, February 11, 2015 (English)
  6. ↑ a b Mohamed Elmasry: Chapel Hill shooting and western media bigotry , aljazeera.com, February 11, 2015 (English)
  7. ↑ a b c Emran Feroz: "Where are all the Charlies?" , New Germany, February 13, 2015