German authorities say the Munich shooter acted alone, had no links to terrorist groups, suffered from depression and was “obsessed” with mass killings.
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Andrae said the 18-year-old attacker’s room had been searched, adding: “Based on the searches, there are no indications whatsoever that there is a connection to IS (Daesh)”.
Numerous nine victims of Friday’s shooting were teenagers. A spokesman of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office refused to directly confirm the minister’s words but he said that “there are some reasons” to believe that the shooter really had such problems in school.
It appeared he was obsessed with mass shootings but who had no links to Islamic state or any political motivation.
It is still unclear exactly what motivated the Munich killer, but one video taken during the attack shows him pacing on a flat roof, shouting “I’m German” at the person filming. She said a video shot by a witness shows the shooter’s exchange with a heckler during the attack.
THE gunman whose rampage at a Munich mall left nine people dead apparently tried to lure young victims to their deaths through a faked Facebook post.
“Massacre of innocent and defenseless people today has turned into another stain in the human history, for which there is no other way than waging an unrelenting and all-out battle without double standards in order to eliminate it”, Qassemi said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel was meeting with her top security advisors to review Friday’s attack and would issue a statement at 1230 GMT, her office said.
Police commandos, armed with night vision equipment and dogs, had raided an apartment in the Munich neighbourhood of Maxvorstadt early on Saturday where the German newspaper Bild said the gunman lived with his parents.
The IS group also claimed suicide bomb attacks at Brussels airport and a city metro station in March that killed 32 people.
The gunman has been identified as an 18-year-old dual German-Iranian.
“I looked in his direction and he shot two people on the stairs”, he said.
At a press conference Mrs Merkel said the events are “difficult to bear for everyone” and pledged to “find out the background” of what happened.
“I started to get texts from friends asking if I was safe”, said Iranian David Akhavan, who works in a Persian restaurant in Munich. I’m quite curious as to how a teenager on public assistance could acquire a handgun in Germany, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world, but is still thought to have up to 39.5 million illegal firearms on the black market (dwarfing the 5.5 million legal, registered firearms).
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Breivik held radical right-wing views and said he hoped his attack would help stop Muslims from immigrating to Europe. “Boom, boom, boom, I heard, and then I saw all the injured”. Please don’t be Afghan.’ I don’t accept any of this violence.
