Six people were shot dead in a mother-and-child home in Stade, Lower Saxony, one week before the speech.
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The phrase 'because they wanted to help a child' is an interpretation rather than an established fact: police reported that all six victims were employees of the facility/social workers and that the suspected shooter acted in an apparent child custody dispute over his baby daughter, not that the victims were specifically killed while helping a child.
The victims were all adults (four women and two men per AFP); no children were killed.
Sources are news reports (BBC, Reuters, AFP via France24, NDR, Tagesschau) published on or shortly after 29 June 2026, i.e. before the session date; no primary official investigative report had been published at the time.
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SecondaryBBC NewsSix people have been fatally shot at a centre for mothers and children by a suspect who was in a custody dispute over his baby daughter... The women and one man were shot dead inside the facility, police said, and a sixth person later died of their injuries in hospital. All the victims were staff members.
SecondaryFrance 24 (AFP)A gunman killed four women and two men Monday at a German shelter for mothers and their children, police said... Stade (Germany) (AFP) – A gunman killed four women and two men Monday at a German shelter for mothers and their children.
SecondaryReutersSix killed in shooting at mother-and-child shelter in northern Germany. A 45-year-old man in an apparent child custody dispute was the suspected shooter at a shelter for mothers and children in northern Germany.
SecondaryNDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk)Am 29. Juni sind in einer Jugendhilfeeinrichtung in Stade sechs Menschen erschossen worden. Der mutmaßliche Täter flüchtete zunächst, wurde ... (On 29 June, six people were shot dead in a youth welfare facility in Stade. The suspected perpetrator initially fled, was ...)
Secondarytagesschau.deIn einer Mutter-Kind-Einrichtung in Stade sind sechs Mitarbeiter erschossen worden. (In a mother-and-child facility in Stade, six employees were shot dead.)