The teenage gunman who shot nine people dead in Munich had been planning his attack for a year, according to German authorities.
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Police arrested an accomplice in the Munich mall massacre, believed to have lured innocent victims to the mass shooting with a promise of a free McDonald’s meal.
The Afghan teen and the 18-year-old German-Iranian shooter met last summer in psychiatric care, and kept in contact chatting through WhatsApp.
Steinkraus-Koch said there is still no evidence of any political motivation to the crime, nor that the shooter killed specific victims.
It was the fifth anniversary of the day Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist, killed 77 people in Norway.
“[He] was obsessed with shooting rampages”, he said.
Heimberger said the attacker appeared to have illegally purchased the pistol used – a 9 mm Glock 17 – through the “dark web”, a shadowy part of the Internet that is not discoverable by standard search engines and is used for anonymous, illicit transactions.
Mr Heimberger added that the parents of the gunman remained in shock and were not able to be interviewed.
Police on Sunday raised the number of people injured in Friday’s rampage from two dozen to 35.
“I know this boy very well – he always was here to help”, she said.
Photographs of the German town of Winnenden, the site of a deadly 2009 school shooting, were also found in his camera.
At a press conference on Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the events are “difficult to bear for everyone” and pledged to “find out the background” of what happened.
A USA psychologist who wrote a book about school shootings which was found in the room of the Munich gunman, says researching other mass killers could be seen as a warning sign of problems ahead.
The casualties were mostly young, with three aged just 14 and two aged 15. They included a Turk, two Turkish-German dual nationals, a Hungarian, a Kosovan and a Greek, police said.
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The 27-year-old man, whose asylum application had been rejected a year ago, had meant to disrupt a nearby pop music festival where 2,500 people had gathered, Joachim Herrmann said, according to DPA.
