German Ambulance via Wikimedia CommonsSix people were killed Monday in Germany after a Turkish gunman opened fire at a youth welfare facility in Stade, Lower Saxony, in what authorities believe was a custody-related massacre involving his three-month-old daughter.The attack, according to reports, took place at a mother-and-child facility,, a place meant to protect vulnerable women and children from danger. Instead, it became the scene of one of Germany’s deadliest shootings in recent years.BREAKING: The perpetrator who shot and killed 6 people was born in Germany but has Turkish roots.Police say the motive was a custody battle over his baby.All the deceased were employees of the Youth Welfare Office in Stade. According to NDR, the father is said to be from… pic.twitter.com/HE40NhPFJM— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 29, 2026Police said five victims died at the scene, while a sixth died later in hospital. The dead were four women and two men, all employees of the facility or connected youth welfare authorities.The suspected gunman, a 45-year-old man from the Hanover area, was arrested shortly after the attack. German reporting has described him as German-born with Turkish citizenship or dual nationality. Yesterday, a Turkish Muslim with Lebanese-Kurdish roots shot 6 dead at a Stade mother-child welfare facility, 4 women and 2 men, all staff. Police describe it as a custody dispute turned mass shooting The suspect arrived for a scheduled meeting about his 3-month-old… pic.twitter.com/mopf648BrW— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) June 30, 2026 Authorities believe the shooting grew out of a custody dispute involving the suspect’s infant daughter. A meeting related to the child’s care and custody had reportedly been scheduled for the same day.The child and her 34-year-old mother were at the facility at the time of the attack. Police said neither was among the victims, and both were brought to safety.The facility provides supervised accommodation for pregnant women and young mothers with children. According to reporting, the suspect’s daughter had previously been removed from the family and later returned to her mother under conditions requiring them to live at the Stade facility rather than at home in Hanover.Because the father was reportedly considered problematic, the custody-related meeting was attended by a larger group of staff than usual. Those workers appear to have become the targets of the attack.Lower Saxony Interior Minister Daniela Behrens described the shooting as an “extremely cold-blooded violent crime” that apparently stemmed from a custody dispute. Investigators have stressed that the exact sequence of events remains under review.The suspect was known to police, including in connection with alleged threats. But officials said he had not been classified as a violent offender.He also did not have a firearms license. Investigators are still trying to determine how he obtained the weapon and whether more than one firearm was used.After the shooting, the suspect allegedly fled in a grey Mercedes. Police intercepted the vehicle and arrested him along with a woman described by investigators as having a close connection to his family.Witnesses told German media that police opened fire on the fleeing car after it failed to stop. Officers later recovered a weapon from the vehicle.Two additional people were taken into police measures or questioning as investigators worked to clarify whether anyone helped the suspect before, during or after the attack. A murder commission has taken over the case because of the scale and complexity of the crime.Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the killings had shaken the country. “The news from Stade shakes us to the core,” he wrote, adding that people “who wanted to help and protect” had lost their lives or been injured.Merz expressed sympathy for the victims and their relatives and thanked police officers for their rapid response. But official sympathy is not enough for a country that keeps repeating the same pattern of shock, mourning and denial.Die Nachricht aus Stade erschüttert bis ins Mark. Viele Menschen, die helfen und schützen wollten, haben ihr Leben verloren oder wurden verletzt. Mein Mitgefühl gilt den Opfern und ihren Angehörigen. Ich danke den Polizisten und Polizistinnen für ihren schnellen Einsatz.— Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz (@bundeskanzler) June 29, 2026The Stade massacre has revived questions Berlin’s ruling class works hard to suppress: immigration, clan crime, imported social conflicts, failed integration and the state’s inability to protect even its own welfare institutions.German outlets NDR and WDR have reported that the suspected gunman belonged to the Miri clan, a large extended-family network associated in Germany with organized crime. Police have said the shooting appears to have been an isolated family-related act rather than a clan-directed operation.That distinction may matter legally, but it does not settle the political question. Germany has allowed foreign-rooted clan structures to entrench themselves in its cities while citizens were told that raising the issue was xenophobic.The Miri network has long been associated by authorities and media with organized crime, including drug trafficking, weapons offenses, extortion, money laundering and violent crime. One of its best-known figures, Ibrahim Miri, accumulated numerous convictions before being deported to Lebanon in 2019, illegally returning, and being deported again.Stade itself has previously seen violence connected to clan disputes. A 2024 conflict linked to competing shisha businesses reportedly escalated into attacks, drive-by shootings and a fatal stabbing involving members of the Miri and Al-Zein networks.Stade represents yet another grim warning about a state that polices speech more aggressively than it dismantles foreign clan power. Germany’s rulers monitor dissidents, stigmatize border-control voters and lecture citizens about diversity, yet repeatedly fail to confront the criminal structures that have been allowed to flourish under their watch.The remigration argument is becoming unavoidable. Foreign criminals must be deported, dual nationals who commit grave crimes should face citizenship consequences where legally possible, and clan networks must be dismantled before they become permanent power structures inside Germany.If a person with foreign citizenship or deportable status commits serious violence, the response cannot be another candlelight vigil or another speech about tolerance. It must be prosecution, removal, border enforcement and a serious reversal of the immigration policies that brought these problems into German life.Stade is now grieving six people who went to work in a facility meant to protect women and children and never came home. Their deaths should force Germany to confront what its elites have spent years denying, namely that mass immigration without assimilation, weak law enforcement and political cowardice have a human cost.The post 6 Killed in German Mass Shooting: Turkish Muslim Opens Fire at Youth Welfare Facility Over Custody Dispute appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.