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[[File:Olympia-Einkaufszentrum.jpg|alt=Olumpia shopping mall from afar, street view, on partly cloudy winter day|thumb|Olympia shopping mall ([[Olympia-Einkaufszentrum (shopping mall)|Olympia-Einkaufszentrum]] or OEZ), where most of the shooting occurred]]
[[File:Olympia-Einkaufszentrum.jpg|alt=Olumpia shopping mall from afar, street view, on partly cloudy winter day|thumb|Olympia shopping mall ([[Olympia-Einkaufszentrum (shopping mall)|Olympia-Einkaufszentrum]] or OEZ), where most of the shooting occurred]]
[[Bavarian State Police]] urged people not to publish any pictures or videos of the police action, in order to prevent the perpetrators from gaining information.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://twitter.com/PolizeiMuenchen/status/756552089229258753 |title=Please don't take Fotos or Video of Police Action in order to avoid any helpful Information for the suspects. #munich #gunfire #oez | work=Twitter | date=22 July 2016 | accessdate=22 July 2016}}</ref> They provided a special upload platform, which allows any witness to upload pictures, audio, or video recordings directly to assist in the investigation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160723/1043498307/german-police-ask-for-photos.html|title=German Police Ask For Photos, Video Of Munich Shooting|work=Sputnik News|date=22 July 2016|access-date=22 July 2016}}</ref> Citizens of Munich also used the [[Twitter]] hashtag #''offeneTür'' (open door) to tell people needing shelter where they could go.<ref name="bbc" />
[[Bavarian State Police]] urged people not to publish any pictures or videos of the police action, in order to prevent the perpetrators from gaining information.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://twitter.com/PolizeiMuenchen/status/756552089229258753 |title=Please don't take Fotos or Video of Police Action in order to avoid any helpful Information for the suspects. #munich #gunfire #oez | work=Twitter | date=22 July 2016 | accessdate=22 July 2016}}</ref> They provided a special upload platform, which allows any witness to upload pictures, audio, or video recordings directly to assist in the investigation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160723/1043498307/german-police-ask-for-photos.html|title=German Police Ask For Photos, Video Of Munich Shooting|work=Sputnik News|date=22 July 2016|access-date=22 July 2016}}</ref> Citizens of Munich also used the [[Twitter]] hashtag #''offeneTür'' (open door) to tell people needing shelter where they could go.<ref name="bbc" />

The ''Trust German Depression Help'' (''Stiftung Deutsche Depressionshilfe'') warned of stigmatizing mentally ill people in reaction to the crime. Ulrich Hegerl, chairman of the Trust and director of [[Leipzig University]] Psychiatry, said it would be sure "with great certainty", that a depression was not the cause for the perpetrators actions. Even if he suffered from a depression, this wouldn't necessarily play a role in the crime. There was no simple explantion for his acting.<ref>[http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/attentaeter-von-muenchen-fuehren-depressionen-in-den-amoklauf-14354811.html Führen Depressionen in den Amoklauf?], Frankfurter Allgemeine, 24 July 2016, in German</ref>


=== International ===
=== International ===

Revision as of 09:22, 24 July 2016

2016 Munich shooting
Outside the McDonalds on Hanauer Straße 83, looking northeast on a cloudy day.
Outside the McDonald's on Hanauer Straße 83, looking northeast, where the gunman began shooting
Map of Munich with locations of attack and Olympia shopping mall marked with red dots.
(1) McDonald's where the attack started
(2) Olympia shopping mall
LocationMoosach, Munich, Germany
Coordinates48°11′0″N 11°32′1″E / 48.18333°N 11.53361°E / 48.18333; 11.53361
Date22 July 2016 (2016-07-22)
17:52 (UTC+2)
TargetCivilians
Attack type
Mass shooting, murder–suicide[1]
WeaponsGlock 17 pistol[2]
Deaths10 (including the perpetrator)
Injured27 (4 by gunfire)[3]
AssailantAli David Sonboly[4][5]
MotiveUnder investigation[6]

On 22 July 2016, 18-year-old Ali David Sonboly carried out a shooting in the vicinity of the Olympia shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich, Germany.[1][7] Ten people, including the perpetrator, were killed and 27 others were injured.[3] Sonboly was a Munich-born Iranian-German dual national who was described as a "loner" obsessed with mass killings.[5] He died at the scene by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

The shooting took place at a McDonald's restaurant near the shopping mall and in the mall itself. Most of the nine victims were lured by the shooter.[4][8][9][10][11]

Event

At 17:52 CEST (15:52 UTC), a lone gunman opened fire at a McDonald's west of the Olympia shopping mall in Moosach, a district of Munich, Germany. A video distributed online showed him firing at pedestrians outside McDonald's.[12] The gunman then moved on to the mall. Most of the victims were killed inside the mall.[12] Another video showed the gunman walking alone on the roof of a nearby parking garage before opening fire again.[13] He was heard shouting "I am German" (German: Ich bin Deutscher) and "I was born here" after an onlooker shouted anti-Turkish abuse at him.[14][15][16]

Soon after, there was an urgent warning to avoid the Karlsplatz ("Stachus"), where German media outlets reported multiple shootings and multiple attackers. Drivers were advised not to pick up any passengers. Later, police denied that there was a crime scene at Karlsplatz, though a mass panic was reported there. People in Munich were warned by the police to stay at home and avoid crowds and public squares.[17][18]

Following initial reports of shots being fired, some 2,300 officers from the greater area and surrounding states were deployed throughout Munich. A manhunt was soon initiated. Munich police urged residents not to leave their homes until further notice.[1][19] The special operations police unit GSG 9 was deployed.[20] Other regions of Germany, Austria and Switzerland were asked to assist in the investigation.[8] A backpack apparently matching the one carried by the gunman at McDonald's was found. Police reportedly used a robot to investigate it.[21] A total of 300 rounds were found inside.[22] Police officials warned of "an acute terror situation" and initially thought there were up to three shooters, but later confirmed that there was only one gunman.[12][23]

The Munich U-Bahn, tram, and bus service, as well as services on the central portion of the S-Bahn in Munich, were stopped.[24][25] Munich main station was evacuated and all trains in and out of Munich were cancelled. Regional and inter-city trains ceased their service to and from the region of the shooting.[26] Deutsche Bahn provided accommodation trains for stranded commuters and tourists, where they could seek refuge. These were located at Mammendorf, Starnberg, Geltendorf, Dachau and Freising.[27]

At 20.30 CEST, the gunman was found dead less than a mile from the mall with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.[12]

Perpetrator

Ali David Sonboly (called David S. by the police) was identified as the shooter. He was an 18-year-old Iranian-German with dual nationality.[14] The Munich Police Department said that the gunman was born and raised in Munich and had no criminal record.[21][28] He lived in an apartment in Maxvorstadt with his parents and brother.[29][30][31] German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said he was the son of Shiite Muslims from Iran who came to Germany as asylum seekers in the 1990s.[32] Sonboly's parents told police their son had possibly converted to Christianity, but he was not religious.[33][34]

Police said that he had been in psychiatric care where he was treated for depression.[13][14] De Maiziere said he may have been bullied by his peers, and police said he had suffered "bodily injury" in an incident involving other young people in 2012.[32] Sonboly had a job distributing a free newspaper, the Münchener Wochenblatt.[35] Sonboly had an obsession with mass shooters, including the perpetrator of the Winnenden school shooting in 2009; he compiled a scrapbook of news clippings on mass shootings and owned several books on the matter.[36][37] A classmate of Sonboly said that Sonboly changed his profile picture on the messaging service WhatsApp to a photo of Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik.[36][38] During the ordeal, Sonboly shouted that he had been bullied for seven years.[39]

Casualties

Nine victims and the perpetrator died in the incident, and another 27 were injured, four by gunshots.[3]

The dead victims included three of Kosovo Albanian descent, three of Turkish descent, one of Greek descent, one of Hungarian descent, and one of ethnic German descent.[40][41][42][43] They comprised six males and three females. Two of the victims were aged 13, three were 14, one was 17, and another was 19. The remaining two were 20 and 45.[44]

In preparation for admitting the injured, multiple hospitals called their medical staff for work outside normal working hours. A state of emergency was declared at the Rechts der Isar Hospital, where an injured victim died.[9]

Investigation

Munich police chief Hubertus Andrä said the shooting appeared to be a "classic shooting rampage" and not terrorism.[14] Police said the gunman was obsessed with mass shootings, and that written material on such attacks was found in his room.[13] Prosecutor Steinkraus Koch said the suspect had a book about school shootings, called Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters.[14] No references to religion had been found in documents in his home.[32] Andrae said there was an "obvious" link between the shooting and Friday's fifth anniversary of the 2011 Norway attacks committed by Anders Behring Breivik.[13][32][45]

Police investigator, Robert Heimberger, said that the shooter appeared to have hacked a girl's Facebook account in order to lure people to McDonald's with an offer of free food.[46][47]

Reactions

Olumpia shopping mall from afar, street view, on partly cloudy winter day
Olympia shopping mall (Olympia-Einkaufszentrum or OEZ), where most of the shooting occurred

Bavarian State Police urged people not to publish any pictures or videos of the police action, in order to prevent the perpetrators from gaining information.[48] They provided a special upload platform, which allows any witness to upload pictures, audio, or video recordings directly to assist in the investigation.[49] Citizens of Munich also used the Twitter hashtag #offeneTür (open door) to tell people needing shelter where they could go.[1]

The Trust German Depression Help (Stiftung Deutsche Depressionshilfe) warned of stigmatizing mentally ill people in reaction to the crime. Ulrich Hegerl, chairman of the Trust and director of Leipzig University Psychiatry, said it would be sure "with great certainty", that a depression was not the cause for the perpetrators actions. Even if he suffered from a depression, this wouldn't necessarily play a role in the crime. There was no simple explantion for his acting.[50]

International

The United States Department of State warned Americans abroad to "shelter in place."[51] President Barack Obama said in a statement that he pledged support for those affected by the attacks.[21] Obama also said "We don't yet know exactly what's happening there, but obviously our hearts go out to those who may have been injured."[52][53]

Czech Republic Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said his country will reinforce its borders to prevent the perpetrator(s) from fleeing into that country, according to German television station n-tv.[8] The Czech Foreign Ministry urged Czechs to avoid public places and set up an emergency hotline.[54] Minister of Foreign Affairs Lubomír Zaorálek condemned the attack on Twitter.[55]

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the attack. The Ministry's spokeperson Bahram Ghassemi expressed condolences to the German government and nation: "The killing of innocent and defenseless civilians has marked another blot on the human history".[56]

The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, stated that Canada would stand by Germany, and was monitoring the situation.[57] UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson tweeted that he was "deeply shocked [and] saddened" by the shooting.[8]

See also

References

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