“We still do not know all of the facts, but we do know that this heinous act has killed and injured multiple individuals in the heart of one of Europe’s most vibrant cities”.
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Police cars and ambulances are seen near the shopping mall in Munich following the shootings.
(Andreas Gebert/dpa via AP).
Thousands of people had been crowding the streets and squares in Munich’s city center in the afternoon, clinking glasses, eating sausages, and listening to bands at a beer festival.
The shooting took place at Munich’s Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall.
A police patrol had shot and wounded the attacker but he had managed to escape, he said. In an interview with the CNN, a woman said her eight-year-old son saw one of the suspects reload his gun inside the mall’s bathroom.
Regardless of the motive, “we have to ensure that hatred and violence in our society does not spread further”, says Volker Kauder, a parliamentary leader of Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats.
Beck told The Associated Press that “with regard to the suspect we have to examine everything, but we don’t know yet what triggered the crime”.
The gunman, wearing a cap and sunglasses, began his shooting spree outside the fast food restaurant, which is near the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall, notes the Daily Mirror.
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Police put the city on lockdown and and halted public transportation. Police officers raided an apartment in the Maxvorstadt neighbourhood in the early hours of Saturday.
“He never came in to the cafe”, he added.
The 18-year-old Iranian origin attacker killed himself whenhe encountered police and was likely a lone shooter. That attacker was shot down by the police.
“The rise of terrorism threatens the way of life for all civilized people, and we must do everything in our power to keep it from our shores”, the Republican presidential candidate said. The man who appears to be a shooter said insulting things about Turks, did not espouse jihadist ideology and spoke with a German accent.
A video posted online, the authenticity of which 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. Andrae said police believe the video is genuine. French President Francois Hollande bluntly said it for them. “I am German. You will get it, ‘” Bayri said. “Then, my thoughts were: please, don’t be a Muslim. The investigations will be running on all cylinders through the night”, Mr Andrae said.
Survivors of the rampage described terrifying scenes.
“I was standing on the balcony smoking a cigarette. And I think for everyone involved their first reaction is really to assume that it’s ISIS”.
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“I looked in his direction and he shot two people on the stairs”, he said.
