Authorities said there was a link to extremist right-wing Norway killer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people, including children at a summer camp in 2011.
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Police have said they found no links to Islamic State, but said Sonboly, who also had Iranian nationality, had previously been treated for mental health problems.
“Documents were found about mass shootings”, said Munich police chief Hubertus Andae, according to the Daily News. He adds that intelligence agencies had no information on the 18-year-old Munich native, whose parents came to Germany in the late 1990s as asylum seekers.
The Munich shopping center shooting has put some cruise lines are high alert on whether to dock their ships in the city after a German-Iranian teenager killed nine people and then himself.
Mourners have been laying flowers and lighting candles at the scene of Friday’s attack in Munich.
No connection has been found to the Isis-claimed axe attack which took place earlier in the week on a train, injuring five people.
According to German police, the gunman had more than 300 rounds of ammunition.
“It is not the case that he deliberately selected” the people who he shot, he said.
Heimberger also said the gunman apparently planned the attack for a year.
The gunman appeared to have hacked into a Facebook account to tell people free food was going to be handed out at the McDonald’s where his rampage started.
Police on Sunday raised the number of people injured in Friday’s rampage from two dozen to 35.
Investigators are still analyzing the 18-year-old’s computer, said Robert Heimberger, president of the Bavarian state criminal police office.
1:30 a.m. Munich police say the shooter acted alone and has killed himself. The shooter at one point yells, “I’m German”, to which the filmer responds, “You are a jerk”, and demands to know what is going on.
Police said they were investigating a video in which the gunman is heard shouting “I am German” and exchanging racial slurs and profanities with another man. “I don’t accept any of this violence”.
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Some of the victims of the deadly shooting rampage in Munich have been named.
