Public figures have offered their condolences to people in Munich following the shopping centre shooting.
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In Germany, nine people were killed and sixteen injured when a gunman opened fire in a busy shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening.
“There were like 50 people running towards our house to seek shelter, and there was a helicopter circling above us for about 20 minutes and sirens”. The GSG9 anti-terrorism unit was created after that attack, though the city saw a worse one in 1980, when 13 people were killed and more than 200 injured at the city’s annual Oktoberfest in a bombing blamed on a student with ties to a neo-Nazi group.
Some of those who have watched the video online have described it as “frightening”, while one YouTube user described it as being “horrible, pure terror”. He said several were wounded, but he did not have an exact count.
According to one of his colleagues, the attacker was wearing military boots and carrying a backpack, he said. Breivik is a hero for far-right militants in Europe and America.
Munich police declared an “akute terrorlage” or “acute terrorist situation”, triggering the shutdown of major roads, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. “And there’s still people walking on the streets, they’re confused, and nobody knows what’s really going on”. She said when he opened fire, the gunman had his back to her. As night closed in, the streets of the city were largely deserted.
“There are still people in the shopping centre”.
Chancellor Angela Merkel will convene her security council on Saturday to address the deadly rampage in the European economic powerhouse which took in more than 1 million migrants and refugees in 2015.
“We found a man who killed himself. But mostly it was surprisingly calm”.
Munich had been on a total lockdown as police combed the city for possible additional suspects, warning all residents to stay indoors and shutting down all public transportation in hopes of not letting any of the bad guys get away.
The mall is adjacent to the Munich Olympic stadium, near where Palestinian terrorists took 11 Israeli athletes hostage and then killed them during the 1972 Olympic Games. On Monday, a 17-year-old Afghan man wounded four people in an axe and knife attack on a train near the Bavarian city of Wuerzberg.
Germany’s dpa news agency: Police say “we expect multiple dead” in Munich mall shooting.
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The incidents in Germany follow an attack in Nice, France, on July 14 in which a Tunisian drove a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day, killing 84. “The search is taking place at high speed”.
