“Local police chief Hubertus Andrae said that there are no reasons to believe that the suspect behind the Munich shooting was connected to the Islamic State extremist group, which is outlawed in many countries, including Russian Federation and the United States and which took responsibility for a number of terror attacks across Europe”.
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Officials said the searches had revealed no links to Islamic State, and suggested the attack was unlikely to have been motivated by Islamist extremism.
Adding that they retrieved documents related to shooting sprees.
Jul 23, 2016- An 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman who apparently acted alone opened fire in a busy shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening, killing at least nine people in the third attack against civilians in Western Europe in eight days.
The gunman, who later killed himself, had a 9mm Glock pistol and 300 bullets.
The shooter had received medical treatment for mental issues, a police official said Saturday in a press conference, and investigators are still looking into his mental condition.
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The overnight investigation had made it clear that the shooter had acted alone before killing himself, he said.
But Andrae later said two others had “absolutely nothing to do” with the attack, and that they were simply fleeing the scene.
The gunman, whose body was found on a side street near the mall, was not identified but Andrae said he was not previously known to police. Ten of them are critically ill, including a 13-year-old boy, police say.
Robert Heimberger, the head of Bavaria’s criminal police, said it appeared that the shooter had hacked a Facebook account and sent a message inviting people to come to the mall for a giveaway.
German president Joachim Gauck said he was “horrified by the murderous attack”.
Police said the gunman was a dual German-Iranian national who was born in Munich.
Nine people were killed on Saturday when a gunman opened fire in a Munich mall.
Friday is also the five-year anniversary of the massacre by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway.
Police in Germany are continuing to hunting for clues on Saturday in an attempt to establish a motive for the attacks. “Our city stands united”, he said. “His whole body language was of somebody who was very shy”, said Stephan, a coffee shop owner who would only give his first name. The shooter said he had no choice but to get a gun and that it wasn’t his fault. “Then, my thoughts were ‘Please, don’t be a Muslim”.
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The casualties were mostly young, with three aged just 14 and two aged 15.
