Shooting at shopping mall in Munich

Keit said:
Sigh, why it isn't at all surprising? At the beginning they talked about several people being involved in the shooting, but now, as usual, they say that it was probably a lone shooter. More so, they found a body and think that he killed himself. How convenient. :rolleyes:

There was a press conference with a police officer in local TV, who was clearly mentioning 3 perpetrators with long weapons. At that time it was not a lone shooter. As far as I could read in local media it is only mentioned that they think that one of the perpetrators is under the dead.

But it seems that according some media the police could not exclude that it was only one perpetrator...

Liveticker zur Schießerei in München
+++ 23:36 Möglicherweise gibt es nur einen Täter +++

Nach Angaben mehrerer Medien kann die Polizei nicht ausschließen, dass das Attentat von München nur von einem Täter ausging. Dieser hat sich offenbar auf dem Dach eines Parkhauses selbst erschossen. Das bedeutet nicht, dass es Entwarnung für München gibt. Bis die Polizei keine genaue Gewissheit hat, wird sie nach weiteren möglichen Tätern suchen.

+++ 23:17 Bestürzung auch in den USA +++
Das Attentat von München löst Bestürzung auch in den USA aus. Ein Sprecher von Präsident Barack Obama erklärt, die Vereinigten Staaten verurteilten den "anscheinenden Terrorakt" auf schärfste Weise. "Wir kennen noch nicht alle Fakten, aber wir wissen, dass dieser feige Akt viele Menschen in einer der lebendigsten Städte Europas getötet und verletzt hat". Obama bot Deutschland die Hilfe der USA bei der Aufklärung der Tat an.

+++ 22:53 Ein Täter von München womöglich tot +++
Einer der Täter der Schießerei von München ist wohl tot. Laut Polizei wird bei dem gefundenen toten Mann eine mögliche Tatbeteiligung geprüft. Geprüft werde auch, ob er sich selbst das Leben genommen haben könnte. Das hatten Augenzeugen berichten. Demnach soll sich der Mann erschossen haben, um einem Zugriff der Polizei zuvorzukommen.
 
Coincidently, Munich was the target of a terror attack 44 years ago. Known as the Munich massacre, it happened during the 1972 Summer Olympics, at which eleven Israeli Olympic team members were killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September.

Interestingly, the commander of the terrorist group was born to Jewish and Christian parents. German neo-Nazis gave the attackers logistical assistance

Off course, the 8 'terrorists' were all killed before trial. The 3 last survivors being directly killed by Mossad.

Source
 
Interesting is that the police chief and also the mainstream media say "there are no indications for a islamic backround" right at the top of the news items.

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/muenchen-liveticker-zu-schuessen-in-einkaufszentrum-oez-alle-news-a-1104388.html

When was the last time any kind of shooting was not immediately suspected to be from islamists?

Here an eyewitness from the mall says that the shots sounded like a machine-gun firing:
http://www.huffingtonpost.de/2016/07/22/muenchen-attentat_n_11144204.html
 
Dirgni said:
Keit said:
Sigh, why it isn't at all surprising? At the beginning they talked about several people being involved in the shooting, but now, as usual, they say that it was probably a lone shooter. More so, they found a body and think that he killed himself. How convenient. :rolleyes:

There was a press conference with a police officer in local TV, who was clearly mentioning 3 perpetrators with long weapons. At that time it was not a lone shooter. As far as I could read in local media it is only mentioned that they think that one of the perpetrators is under the dead.

But it seems that according some media the police could not exclude that it was only one perpetrator...

Liveticker zur Schießerei in München
+++ 23:36 Möglicherweise gibt es nur einen Täter +++

Nach Angaben mehrerer Medien kann die Polizei nicht ausschließen, dass das Attentat von München nur von einem Täter ausging. Dieser hat sich offenbar auf dem Dach eines Parkhauses selbst erschossen. Das bedeutet nicht, dass es Entwarnung für München gibt. Bis die Polizei keine genaue Gewissheit hat, wird sie nach weiteren möglichen Tätern suchen.

+++ 23:17 Bestürzung auch in den USA +++
Das Attentat von München löst Bestürzung auch in den USA aus. Ein Sprecher von Präsident Barack Obama erklärt, die Vereinigten Staaten verurteilten den "anscheinenden Terrorakt" auf schärfste Weise. "Wir kennen noch nicht alle Fakten, aber wir wissen, dass dieser feige Akt viele Menschen in einer der lebendigsten Städte Europas getötet und verletzt hat". Obama bot Deutschland die Hilfe der USA bei der Aufklärung der Tat an.

+++ 22:53 Ein Täter von München womöglich tot +++
Einer der Täter der Schießerei von München ist wohl tot. Laut Polizei wird bei dem gefundenen toten Mann eine mögliche Tatbeteiligung geprüft. Geprüft werde auch, ob er sich selbst das Leben genommen haben könnte. Das hatten Augenzeugen berichten. Demnach soll sich der Mann erschossen haben, um einem Zugriff der Polizei zuvorzukommen.

Could you provide the sources? That would be helpful...
 
Pashalis said:
Dirgni said:
Keit said:
Sigh, why it isn't at all surprising? At the beginning they talked about several people being involved in the shooting, but now, as usual, they say that it was probably a lone shooter. More so, they found a body and think that he killed himself. How convenient. :rolleyes:

There was a press conference with a police officer in local TV, who was clearly mentioning 3 perpetrators with long weapons. At that time it was not a lone shooter. As far as I could read in local media it is only mentioned that they think that one of the perpetrators is under the dead.

But it seems that according some media the police could not exclude that it was only one perpetrator...

Liveticker zur Schießerei in München
+++ 23:36 Möglicherweise gibt es nur einen Täter +++

Nach Angaben mehrerer Medien kann die Polizei nicht ausschließen, dass das Attentat von München nur von einem Täter ausging. Dieser hat sich offenbar auf dem Dach eines Parkhauses selbst erschossen. Das bedeutet nicht, dass es Entwarnung für München gibt. Bis die Polizei keine genaue Gewissheit hat, wird sie nach weiteren möglichen Tätern suchen.

+++ 23:17 Bestürzung auch in den USA +++
Das Attentat von München löst Bestürzung auch in den USA aus. Ein Sprecher von Präsident Barack Obama erklärt, die Vereinigten Staaten verurteilten den "anscheinenden Terrorakt" auf schärfste Weise. "Wir kennen noch nicht alle Fakten, aber wir wissen, dass dieser feige Akt viele Menschen in einer der lebendigsten Städte Europas getötet und verletzt hat". Obama bot Deutschland die Hilfe der USA bei der Aufklärung der Tat an.

+++ 22:53 Ein Täter von München womöglich tot +++
Einer der Täter der Schießerei von München ist wohl tot. Laut Polizei wird bei dem gefundenen toten Mann eine mögliche Tatbeteiligung geprüft. Geprüft werde auch, ob er sich selbst das Leben genommen haben könnte. Das hatten Augenzeugen berichten. Demnach soll sich der Mann erschossen haben, um einem Zugriff der Polizei zuvorzukommen.

Could you provide the sources? That would be helpful...

No I cannot provide sources (some media), this live ticker stated it (its German text I already included above)
http://www.n-tv.de/politik/23-59-Bahn-stellt-Uebernachtungszuege-bereit-article18256586.html

It is too late to search in Internet if I could give names to those anonymous media.
 
Pierre said:
Coincidently, Munich was the target of a terror attack 44 years ago. Known as the Munich massacre, it happened during the 1972 Summer Olympics, at which eleven Israeli Olympic team members were killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September.

Interestingly, the commander of the terrorist group was born to Jewish and Christian parents. German neo-Nazis gave the attackers logistical assistance

Off course, the 8 'terrorists' were all killed before trial. The 3 last survivors being directly killed by Mossad.

Source

There were other terror attacks in and near Munich. For both of them there are memorials erected in Munich.

There was the Oktoberfest terror attack. On 26 September 1980, 13 people died and 211 were injured after the explosion of an improvised explosive device at the main entrance of the Oktoberfest in Munich, West Germany. The attack is considered to be the most severe act of terrorism in post-war West Germany. The attack was attributed to the right-wing extremist and geology student Gundolf Köhler who was killed while placing the explosive device; however, doubts remain as to whether he acted alone. Repeated attempts to re-open the investigation in the years that followed the bombing have not been successful until 2014.

And Karl Heinz Beckurts was one of those who were killed by the terrorist group RAF. Along with his driver, Eckhard Groppler, Beckurts was murdered by a roadside bomb at 7:32 AM on 9 July 1986 in Straßlach, a district of Munich. The bomb used an electronic triggering device. The Red Army Faction claimed responsibility under the name "Kommando Mara Cagol" but the identity of the perpetrators is still unknown.
 
Gunmen attacked a busy shopping mall in the German city of Munich on Friday evening, spraying bullets as people fled in horror for safety from what police said was a terrorist attack.

7 Killed in Attack on Munich Shopping Mall
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950502000005

Munich police spokeswoman said seven people were killed and an undetermined number wounded. No suspects had been arrested yet, she said.

"We believe there was more than one perpetrator. The first reports came at 6 p.m. (1700 GMT), the shooting apparently began at a McDonald's in the shopping center. There are still people in the shopping center. We are trying to get the people out and take care of them," the spokeswoman said.

Bavarian broadcaster BR said seven people were dead and many wounded in the shopping mall. Munich police said on Facebook that witnesses reported three different gunmen armed with rifles.

A video posted online – whose authenticity could not be confirmed – showed a man dressed in black outside a McDonalds by the roadside, drawing a handgun and shooting towards members of the public.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but, several witnesses said the assailants wore the kind of army boots and trousers that far-right extremists and Neo-Nazists wear.

The incidents in Germany follow an attack in Nice, France, on Bastille Day in which a Tunisian drove a truck into crowds, killing 84.

Friday is also the five-year anniversary of the massacre by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway. Breivik is a hero for far-right extremists in Europe and America.


Police have evacuated the offices of the Munich newspaper Abendzeitung after reports of a shooting in the building's courtyard, according to German newspaper Merkur.

Newspaper Building in Munich Evacuated After Reports of Shooting
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160723/1043500855/munich-newspaper-evacuation.html

The evacuation has ended, with police saying it was a false alarm.

This comes after the shooting spree that occurred at the Olympia shopping center that left at least nine people dead and 20 injured.

A state of emergency has been declared across the city as special forces hunt for the shooters. Some reports indicate that the ninth victim may be a gunman.


German Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold a security cabinet meeting on Saturday to assess the situation following the deadly shooting in Munich, Merkel’s chief of staff Peter Altmaier said on public television.

Merkel to Hold Security Council Meeting Saturday in Wake of Munich Attack
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160723/1043498576/germany-security-council-merkel-munich.html

Altmaier told ZDF public television on Friday that Merkel was being "constantly briefed" on developments in the southern city, where police say up to three gunmen are still at large.

Merkel was not present at the chancellery staff meeting held on Friday evening immediately after the shooting.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere interrupted his holiday after the shooting occurred and is returning home.


German Newspaper Bild reports that at least one shooter involved in Friday's attack at a Munich shopping mall that has left 10 dead and several wounded has shot himself in the head.

One of the Munich Gunmen Commits Suicide - German Media Reports
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160722/1043490294/munich-terror-isis-daesh-merkel.html

UPDATE: Police confirm that there are at least 10 people dead in the Munich shooting attack reports RIA. Eight of those dead are believed to be civilians, but one of the deaths reported by police has been confirmed to be one of the shooters who committed suicide per a statement released by Munich Police via Twitter in French. The ninth body was found only 1km (0.6 miles) away from the scene of the attack.

Bavarian broadcaster BR reports that the dead man found near scene of shooting had a red backpack similar to that used by the shooter at McDonald's. Police bomb squad units are now using a robot to investigate the backpack.

Police believe that there are as many as three gunmen and countered the report that one of the attackers had taken his life saying that all potential suspects remain at large. Despite the update by police, conflicting reports continue to surface citing security officials.

German police refused to confirm the initial report that one of the gunmen has shot himself. They remain on a citywide hunt for suspected terrorists after witnesses on the scene report seeing at least three gunmen with long rifles.


Police confirm that ten people have been killed and at least 20 people have been hospitalized in a terrorist shooting at a mall in the city of Munich, Germany.

Shocking Video Shows Suspected Munich Shooter Open Fire Outside Restaurant
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160722/1043487101/terror-munich-terror-shooting-merkel.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHXligt2EBc

Police indicate that this remains an active shooter situation until authorities can confirm that they have detained and arrested all people involved. The shooting occurred at the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall in Munich.

Police continue to search for what they believe are three shooters who coordinated the ambush on the mall which was a destination where minorities and immigrants were known to frequent. Police indicate that they do not believe that the attack is tied to an Islamic terrorist network. Today is the 5th anniversary of the attack in Norway by an ultra-right nationalist.


Munich Police announced that only one shooter is responsible for Friday's terror attack that left at least 10 dead and 20 people hospitalized when the gunman took aim at shoppers near a mall in Munich.

Police: High Probability Munich Massacre Committed by Lone Shooter
http://sputniknews.com/news/20160723/1043502331/munich-terror-isis-shooting-attack.html

On Friday, a shooter took aim at shoppers at a mall near the 1972 Olympic stadium, an attack that left at least ten dead and another 20 hospitalized leaving German officials to scramble to piece together the motive and the nature of the incident.

Earlier in the day, the police believed that there were three shooters responsible citing eyewitness accounts from individuals on the scene. Conflicting reports came in as to the identity of the shooter and the motive for his attack. Some witnesses said that the shooter was cursing immigrants and Turks while yelling at victims that he was German. Another witness, however, claims that the shooter yelled "Allahu Akbar" before training his weapon on children.

Police confirmed that a person connected to the attack is among the ten dead saying that the individual committed suicide. The individual was wearing a red bag like the shooter in a video released earlier in the day. The police checked the suspect's bag with a bomb robot.


Reports of a second shooting at Marienplatz station came from Munich. Police began special operation in Munich's Karlsplatz square.

Shooting Taking Place At One of Munich's Largest Squares
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160722/1043484821/shootinng-munich-square.html

A second shooting at Marienplatz Station in Munich has been reported. Police have not confirmed.

German police forces are carrying out another special operation at Munich's Karlsplatz Square after reports of shooting.

A young woman interviewed by N-24 Television described the alleged suspect at Karlsplatz saying, "It was a man and he was strangely dressed,". She also claimed to have seen the suspect outside of a McDonald's restaurant.

Munich emergency services say they have been receiving reports of gunfire at several locations throughout the city.

Twitter have also been reported shots fired at Isartor Square near the city's center.


Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere says the country faces further attacks by Islamist "lone wolves" similar to that carried out by a 17-year old refugee who attacked train passengers with an axe on July 18, amid criticism of Germany's 'open door' policy on migrants.

Germany Warned of More 'Lone Wolf' Attacks Amid Open Door Policy
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160722/1043468442/germany-terror-migrants-daesh.html

There is growing criticism of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's "open door" policy on migrants, amid growing fears that terrorists are flooding into Europe in the guise of genuine migrants seeking asylum in EU states.
 
This is what our world has become: people enter the mall, some guys start shooting and killing, then those remaining are "escorted" by the police at gunpoint.

Police treat everyone as potential suspect until searched and checked because gunmen can easily merge with the crowd and there can be more gunmen among crowd. That is why, it is safety measure.

There was a press conference with a police officer in local TV, who was clearly mentioning 3 perpetrators with long weapons. At that time it was not a lone shooter. As far as I could read in local media it is only mentioned that they think that one of the perpetrators is under the dead.

But it seems that according some media the police could not exclude that it was only one perpetrator...

It could be the rest ran away and they can not find them so they keep the narrative open for lone gunmen not to face embarrassment in public and sense of trust in the authorities.

From what I ve seen in the videos these guys were amateurs, it seems in the first video he does not know how to hold a gun, shooting randomly without aiming, and did not see anybody being hit luckily, but still from that distance was surprised nobody was hit even with blind fire at such a close range, even grandpa managed to get away(at least for the duration of video frame). No masks, tactical gear or vests, no assault machine rifles, seems like these two where patsies or going nuts, but there being multiple shooters is to big of coincidence of them going nuts in the same time, so it was organized. Now, they said there were shooters in the mall with long barrels and there are no videos and testimonies of that so it leaves it open until more details come in, btw there should be security cams in mall. This thing about central plaza being closed under false pretenses smells like there being some diversion tactics being used to spread police forces, instigate chaos and confusion because police has to respond to every call about possible bomb with anti bomb crews, etc... especially under credible emergency situations.

Where did those three people get the weapons? It is very hard to get weapons in germany, assuming they had no shooting license.

Black market? Weapons smuggling?(if not being black op)

Things are going explosively nuts overall, but that is how things work, after nothing happening for some periods and being stagnant, things happen one after another, but this is really fast pace and if it continues until the end of the year we ve seen nothing yet.

A young woman interviewed by N-24 Television described the alleged suspect at Karlsplatz saying, "It was a man and he was strangely dressed,". She also claimed to have seen the suspect outside of a McDonald's restaurant.

How could she be in the two different places if this McDonalds is not on that plaza, I can not conclude from that sentence location, but it seems there is so much media spin and confusion like false witnesses being used.
 
Seems that PTB thinks that people in Germany are not yet so well programed as, for example, French or British.

Any passports found yet?
 
Just a little note about the date of the event, July 22nd, 2016. This is the five year anniversary day of the Utøya and Oslo attack in Norway.
 
Dirgni said:
Pierre said:
Coincidently, Munich was the target of a terror attack 44 years ago. Known as the Munich massacre, it happened during the 1972 Summer Olympics, at which eleven Israeli Olympic team members were killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September.

Interestingly, the commander of the terrorist group was born to Jewish and Christian parents. German neo-Nazis gave the attackers logistical assistance

Off course, the 8 'terrorists' were all killed before trial. The 3 last survivors being directly killed by Mossad.

Source

There were other terror attacks in and near Munich. For both of them there are memorials erected in Munich.

There was the Oktoberfest terror attack. On 26 September 1980, 13 people died and 211 were injured after the explosion of an improvised explosive device at the main entrance of the Oktoberfest in Munich, West Germany. The attack is considered to be the most severe act of terrorism in post-war West Germany. The attack was attributed to the right-wing extremist and geology student Gundolf Köhler who was killed while placing the explosive device; however, doubts remain as to whether he acted alone. Repeated attempts to re-open the investigation in the years that followed the bombing have not been successful until 2014.

And Karl Heinz Beckurts was one of those who were killed by the terrorist group RAF. Along with his driver, Eckhard Groppler, Beckurts was murdered by a roadside bomb at 7:32 AM on 9 July 1986 in Straßlach, a district of Munich. The bomb used an electronic triggering device. The Red Army Faction claimed responsibility under the name "Kommando Mara Cagol" but the identity of the perpetrators is still unknown.


And this one below. I don't know what to make of it:

http://www.gearoidocolmain.org/en/importance-date-munich-attack-22-july-2016/

https://twitter.com/gutjahr

I just appeared for an extensive live commentary on Press TV on events in Munich, Germany, where a terrorist attack has taken place. I pointed out that today is the 22nd of July, the most important date in the history of the Zionist entity. There are reports of 6 people dead so far. On this day in 1946, Israel carried out its first false flag terrorist attack on the King David Hotel. This day five years ago, Anders Brevik, a far-right patsy massacred dozens of pro-Palestinian activists in Norway. Professor Ola Tunander wrote a detailed study of the event for a peer-reviewed Security Studies journal. His conclusion was that the attack had been orchestrated by Israeli intelligence (Mossad).

The attacks in Munich have taken place in the Olympia Shopping Mall. Today is the 72nd anniversary of the false flag terrorist attack which led to the founding of the Jewish State. I have suggested that the planners may want to pay hommage to the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre, carried out by two Jewish double agents Abu Nidal and Luttif Affiv and blamed on the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. The attacks in Munich may be random, meaningless, though tragic events. But they may also be about criminalising the exposure of coercive engineered migration, Zionism’s covert war on Germany and driving hatred and suspicion between Muslims and Christian/secularists, all to the benefit of the Zionist entity and its never-ending ‘War on terror’. I will be posting the video soon and the full analysis of this new episode of Gladio.

Update: The Zionists think we are stupid; it is their fatal flaw. A friend has just informed me that the German journalist I mentioned in my last piece on the Nice Attack, Richard Gutjahr, is at the scene in Munich! This guy gets around! He is married to Mossad agent Einat Wilf, a close confidante of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Gutjahr is tweeting from the scene with a tweet in German which reads ”Stehe vor dem OEZ” I’m standing outside the Olympia Einkaufzentrum( shopping mall).” Being an intelligence journalist is obviously an exciting job.

Richard, es ist ein sehr gutes Jahr fur dich!
 
Now we have again a lone shooter:

‘Motives incomprehensible’: Lone Munich gunman commits suicide after killing 9, injuring 16

Munich police have announced a ‘cautious all-clear’ after an hours-long manhunt which culminated in the discovery of the suspected gunman’s body. The shooter is believed to have acted alone and with no clear motives in a rampage that claimed nine lives.

“We found a man, who killed him himself. We assume, that he was the only shooter,” Munich police department said.

The perpetrator has been identified “within the framework of Interpol,” police said in a series of tweets in German. Law enforcement believes “with high” probability that the gunman acted alone.

Police said the shooter was an 18-year-old German-Iranian who lived in the country for over two years and whose motives “are still unclear.”

At a press conference, police chief Hubertus Andrae admitted that conflicting witness testimonies made authorities believe that there were three killers at large, but that information has not been confirmed.


Police also announced that the shooting rampage that started at the Olympia shopping center and the adjoining McDonald's left 10 people dead, including one person who died in a hospital and the shooter himself, who has not yet been named.

Youths were among the nine victims of the attack, Andrae added. The chief also announced that 16 more people had been injured in the rampage, including children. Three of the wounded have a life-threatening condition.

Initial reports led police to believe that up to three gunmen were on the lose as security forces deployed all means possible to track the attackers. As the manhunt continued, police found the body of a man that they believed was of the shooter who committed suicide.

Explosives experts from Munich police went on to examine a backpack found on the dead man who resembled the gunman seen on several videos shared online. The body of the man was found about one kilometer (0.6 miles) away from the mall where the shootings took place. A special bomb robot reportedly aided in examining the suspect’s body.

Police, according to Focus Online, also secured a vehicle they believe belonged to the dead gunman. Citing a police source, the publication reported that a “dark gray medium-sized car” had been taken away on a tow truck.

After an intense hours-long manhunt during which special police teams were called in from all of Germany, the all-clear was given for Munich city center and public transport operations to restart shortly after 1:00am local time
 
Corvinus said:
A young woman interviewed by N-24 Television described the alleged suspect at Karlsplatz saying, "It was a man and he was strangely dressed,". She also claimed to have seen the suspect outside of a McDonald's restaurant.

How could she be in the two different places if this McDonald's is not on that plaza, I can not conclude from that sentence location, but it seems there is so much media spin and confusion like false witnesses being used.

There is one McDonald's near the OEZ shopping mall in the north of Munich. In the building of this building the shooting started. I heard an interview of a young woman, who said she was in a queue in this OEZ McDonald's when she heart 3 shots in the building but it was taking place in the building over her.

There is another McDonald's at Karlsplatz in the center of Munich into which a group of people fled. I am not sure if there was a shooting at this place or if there was just some panic there. In the media it was only mentioned that this was false alarm. It is not clear what this panic started. This McDonald is a couple of kilometers away from the OEZ and situated between Marienplatz (with Munich's town hall) and Central Station. You can walk within 15-20 Minutes from Marienplatz via Karlsplatz to Munich Central Station.

At both places there were police operations yesterday. I did not hear about other places, with police operations connected with "shootings" within Munich yesterday.

There were rumors about shootings at Karlsplatz (Stachus), Odeonsplatz (another central square north of Marienplatz) and the Tollwoos Festival (at Theresienwiese near Central station). TZ, a Munich newspaper mentioned these as false alarms.
 
Altair said:
Now we have again a lone shooter:

‘Motives incomprehensible’: Lone Munich gunman commits suicide after killing 9, injuring 16

Munich police have announced a ‘cautious all-clear’ after an hours-long manhunt which culminated in the discovery of the suspected gunman’s body. The shooter is believed to have acted alone and with no clear motives in a rampage that claimed nine lives.

“We found a man, who killed him himself. We assume, that he was the only shooter,” Munich police department said.

The perpetrator has been identified “within the framework of Interpol,” police said in a series of tweets in German. Law enforcement believes “with high” probability that the gunman acted alone.

Police said the shooter was an 18-year-old German-Iranian who lived in the country for over two years and whose motives “are still unclear.”

At a press conference, police chief Hubertus Andrae admitted that conflicting witness testimonies made authorities believe that there were three killers at large, but that information has not been confirmed.


Police also announced that the shooting rampage that started at the Olympia shopping center and the adjoining McDonald's left 10 people dead, including one person who died in a hospital and the shooter himself, who has not yet been named.

Youths were among the nine victims of the attack, Andrae added. The chief also announced that 16 more people had been injured in the rampage, including children. Three of the wounded have a life-threatening condition.

Initial reports led police to believe that up to three gunmen were on the lose as security forces deployed all means possible to track the attackers. As the manhunt continued, police found the body of a man that they believed was of the shooter who committed suicide.

Explosives experts from Munich police went on to examine a backpack found on the dead man who resembled the gunman seen on several videos shared online. The body of the man was found about one kilometer (0.6 miles) away from the mall where the shootings took place. A special bomb robot reportedly aided in examining the suspect’s body.

Police, according to Focus Online, also secured a vehicle they believe belonged to the dead gunman. Citing a police source, the publication reported that a “dark gray medium-sized car” had been taken away on a tow truck.

After an intense hours-long manhunt during which special police teams were called in from all of Germany, the all-clear was given for Munich city center and public transport operations to restart shortly after 1:00am local time

According to the German magazine Focus it is reported that two civilian police officers where at the shopping mall when the shooting began and started to chase the shooter and drew there weapons as reported by eyewitnesses, which caused confusion by the eye witnesses. What I'm wondering if there would have been more shooters at the scene shouldn't the death toll much higher? Or these two "police officers" where there to cause much more panic. Or a change of plan at the time and the two other guys overviewed what was happening in case the shooter himself wasn't successful.


Dirgni said:
Corvinus said:
A young woman interviewed by N-24 Television described the alleged suspect at Karlsplatz saying, "It was a man and he was strangely dressed,". She also claimed to have seen the suspect outside of a McDonald's restaurant.

How could she be in the two different places if this McDonald's is not on that plaza, I can not conclude from that sentence location, but it seems there is so much media spin and confusion like false witnesses being used.

There is one McDonald's near the OEZ shopping mall in the north of Munich. In the building of this building the shooting started. I heard an interview of a young woman, who said she was in a queue in this OEZ McDonald's when she heart 3 shots in the building but it was taking place in the building over her.

There is another McDonald's at Karlsplatz in the center of Munich into which a group of people fled. I am not sure if there was a shooting at this place or if there was just some panic there. In the media it was only mentioned that this was false alarm. It is not clear what this panic started. This McDonald is a couple of kilometers away from the OEZ and situated between Marienplatz (with Munich's town hall) and Central Station. You can walk within 15-20 Minutes from Marienplatz via Karlsplatz to Munich Central Station.

At both places there were police operations yesterday. I did not hear about other places, with police operations connected with "shootings" within Munich yesterday.

There were rumors about shootings at Karlsplatz (Stachus), Odeonsplatz (another central square north of Marienplatz) and the Tollwoos Festival (at Theresienwiese near Central station). TZ, a Munich newspaper mentioned these as false alarms.

I think as soon as the news spread people all over Munich got in panic and thought that somewhere else something happened.
 
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