{"id":2735,"date":"2015-08-31T09:03:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T09:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2015\/08\/31\/pensioner-enters-jehovahs-witness-church-with-machine-gun\/"},"modified":"2015-08-31T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T09:03:57","slug":"pensioner-enters-jehovahs-witness-church-with-machine-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/pensioner-enters-jehovahs-witness-church-with-machine-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensioner enters Jehovah&#8217;s Witness church with machine gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0016002655029px; line-height: 21.0022411346436px\">An 82-year-old man who entered a meeting of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses armed with a submachine gun, three magazines, a Samurai sword and a knife has been arrested, Bielefeld police reported on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"articleContent\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.172em; line-height: 21.0022411346436px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px\">Some 81 members of the church were gathered in their Kingdom Hall on Dunlopstra\u00dfe in the city\u2019s Sennestadt district when a congregation member noticed the masked elderly man enter the vestibule waving the machine gun around 8:45 pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2734\" src=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/310815.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/310815.jpg 550w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/310815-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px\">The witness quietly informed the congregation and directed them to escape the building via emergency exit, a police statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px\">Meanwhile the man entered and left the hall before attempting to return to his vehicle, an Opel Astra parked some 50 metres away, waving his gun along the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px\">But before he could leave the scene, two of the congregation members overcame the man from behind. Police arrived shortly thereafter to arrest him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px\">Police in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia are investigating the man\u2019s motives, the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal\">The Local (<\/span><a href=\"mailto:news@thelocal.de\">news@thelocal.de<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal\">)<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 82-year-old man who entered a meeting of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses armed with a submachine gun, three magazines, a Samurai sword and a knife has been arrested, Bielefeld police reported on Friday. Some 81 members of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}