The internet fame of Thomas Salbey
a.k.a. a German post-WW2 hero is born
This is the story of the Balcony Man, the man that scolded badly at the Munich Shooter Ali S., as the latter got too close into Salbey's personel space. Salbey might have saved some lives by doing what he seems to be best in, scolding at someone. No, honestly, maybe his scolding really distracted the shooter from his plan and was the cause for the 2 hours that the shooter just disappeared between his shooting at the McDonalds and his suicide.
We will see a video of Ali S., the shooter of Munich, standing on the upper deck of a parking garage, trying to elaborate on the case and his reasonings with a german citizen who happens to live in one adjacent concrete-block, Salbey. Why Ali S. came up there is not known to this date. Maybe he wanted to reload the gun (he reportedly had 300 rounds of ammunition with him) or maybe he was just lost in a quarter that he didn't know but that he chose to go on a killing spree in. Maybe he had already realized how badly he had fucked up since he had already shot 9 people dead at the McDonalds at the Olympia-Einkaufs-Zentrum and was looking for a quiet place to rest and re-evaluate the hopeless situation he had himself brought into.
Not with Salbey, though. Thomas Salbey doesn't give a flying fuck.
The article that made me do this post was
this one in the "Welt am Sonntag". That is a larger, serious German newspaper. No Boulevard bullshit, slightly left wing from what I know.
For a better understanding of the background it should be noted that the area where the Munich shootings happened is a region with mostly poor income. A lot of migrants live there, as well as lower class "pure" Germans. Thomas Salbey is one of the latter.
The mentioned article first goes into detail about the video that has gone viral and how the Welt found the original source. The filmer was one Mersad, some guy living next to the parking garage who commited to the Welt that he had made that video. He didn't want any much journalism on him but he said that he was of Muslim belief, had come to Germany 8 years prior and was shocked that even here you can't live in peace, after all. "What has happened in France, Belgium or here is simply just sad and inhuman." "This is not Islam. This is terrorism and terror has no religion."
Qutoe from the article: "Der Mann habe gerufen, dass er Deutscher sei und dass es nicht um den Islam gehe, erinnert sich Mersad, dessen Handy mit den Originalaufnahmen inzwischen von der Polizei beschlagnahmt wurde." - "The man would have shouted that he was German and that this was not about Islam, Mersad remembers, whose cell phone with the original recordings was since seized by the police."
So, let's start with the video:
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The best transcript I could find yet:
(Balcony Man is Thomas Salbey, Shooter is Ali S.)
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And here now the rest of the story, the translation from rest of the Welt article titled "Zeuge wollte Amokläufer mit Bierflasche stoppen" - "Witness wanted to stop Amokrunner with a beerbottle" that sums up the aftermath:
"Asked if he hadn't been afraid to scold the assailant that badly, Mersad responded: „That wasn't me. That was our neighbour, a storey above us.“
Thomas Salbey doesn't care if his name is fully publicized. „I'm not afraid of that scum.“, says the 57 year old and leads us onto the balcony from where you have a good overview of the parking garage.
Photo by Helmar Büchel, taken from http://www.welt.de/politik/article15724 ... oppen.html
Salbey is stil enraged. „Yesterday evening I was here drinking my afterwork beer, then I heard shots and then I noticed that full retard down there with the gun.“ says the excavator-operator. „I even tried to hit him throwing my beerbottle but it broke over there on the transition to the parking garage.“
Salbey takes a deep breath of air: „If I would have had a rattle, I'd not have thrown the bottle but would have gotten him a shot to the head, that complete idiot.“ „You aren't quite right („Lights are on but noone's at home“), I shouted, you are an asshole!“ Salbey remembers, „no, he said, I'm German.“ Then the man had had his gun uppered „and bam, bam, bam, I went into cover.“
He would have only learned afterwards about the whole dimension of the assassination. „He was a psycho, he wasn't quite right, you could see that.“
Salbey is leaing on the balustrade, watching the police searching for traces on the parking garage. What is he thinking now? „This is getting worse and worse here, it already is the third world war!“
Actually, the chancellor is the culprit of the incidents as the one at the OEZ (the shopping mall) in his opinion. „Merkel let's everyone into the country“, Salbey scolds, „she's always like, we can do it, we can do it.“
The fact that the shooter was not a refugee but grew up and went to school here can not damp his anger at Merkel on this day."
He even invited the british press, not giving a fuck about his impression:
"He invited Mail Online into his untidy flat.
In his bedroom a five-foot long radio controlled plane and a poster of a naked blonde hang over his bed.
Other pin-up pictures of topless women adorned the walls, while almost every piece of space in the flat was taken up with his belongings."
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And that is what we are dealing with... on the Micro as well as the Makro.
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