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Police said they were searching for the two attackers, who they said had exited the vehicle with a submachine gun and fled the scene.

The UN fact finding mission said the authorities used shotguns, assault rifles and submachine guns against demonstrators, "thereby committing unlawful and extrajudicial killings."

To carry out his plans, Wischhusen compiled an armoury of homemade weapons including pistols, submachine guns and a shotgun, as well as ammunition, bombs, grenades and poison.

He fought in three of its five major battles, as well as in many lesser engagements, armed with a Thompson submachine gun.

The defendant spoke of his desire to get hold of a submachine gun and assault rifle, in encrypted chats on the Threema messaging platform.