The right-wing extremist who killed ten people and wounded six in attacks on two late-night cafés in Hanau near Frankfurt played football for a youth team trained by Jürgen Klopp, the Liverpool manager, it has been claimed.
Police believe that Tobias Rathjen, 43, shot dead staff and customers in two shisha cafés before killing his 72-year-old mother and then taking his own life after having published an extremist manifesto online.
He had been a keen footballer and coached by Klopp at Eintracht Frankfurt, the Bundesliga club, Bild newspaper reported.
“A knee injury abruptly ended Tobias’s sporting career. That was a severe blow to him,” a friend of the killer told the paper.
A spokeswoman for the club said that Klopp had been a youth trainer,
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