Alone before an invisible audience: German gunman lived online

The gunman delivers a message to the camera before beginning an attack on a synagogue in Halle, Germany October 9, 2019 in this still image taken from the gunman's helmet camera video stream.

BERLIN (Reuters) - The alleged perpetrator of Wednesday's gun attack on a German synagogue had few friends, but a clear idea of the internet audience he wanted to impress.

"Want to be friends?" he asked with a smirk at the start of his livestreamed rampage through the city of Halle, later cursing and apologising to his invisible audience for failing to shoot the congregation praying inside.