The GSG9 anti-terrorism unit was created after that attack, though the city saw a worse one in 1980, when 13 people were killed and more than 200 injured at the city’s annual Oktoberfest in a bombing blamed on a student with ties to a neo-Nazi group. German news magazine Focus said a gunman had shot himself in the head.
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After some time, the shooting was reported at Marienplatz station in Munich.
As special forces deployed in the city, some people remained holed up in the Olympia shopping centre which police said had been evacuated.
It was the third major act of violence against civilians in Western Europe in eight days. The attack comes on the five-year anniversary of an attack in Norway that killed 77, carried out by ultra-right nationalist and white supremacist Anders Breivik suggesting that Friday’s attack could be a copycat.
Police officers respond to the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall on July 22.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but supporters of Islamic State celebrated on social media.
Mall security was a big topic at a convention organized by the International Council of Shopping Centers trade group in May, she said.
A video posted online – whose authenticity 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.
Police spokeswoman said six people were killed and an undetermined number wounded.
Witness Luan Zequiri said he was in the mall when the shooting started Friday. On Friday, the cat photos were not only meant to cheer people up but keep them from posting information about where authorities may be located in Munich as they hunted for the gunmen.
It was also not far from where Palestinian attackers opened fire in the Olympic Village in 1972, killing 11 Israeli athletes. Police are looking for him.
Vasiliki Spanouli, 30, who works as a cleaner, said at least one gunman began firing on people in the mall without warning.
The attack followed the Bastille Day Massacre in Nice as a Tunisian delivery man ploughed a 19-tonne truck into crowds of revelers in the southern French city of Nice, killing 84.
Peter Altmaier previously said on Tuesday evening in response to the Würzburg axe attack that refugees are no more likely than anyone else to commit terrorist atrocities.
The shooting at the McDonald’s happened around 5:50 p.m. (9:50 a.m. MDT), she said.
He called Germany a close ally and said the USA will “pledge all the support that they may need” in the investigation.
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Britain’s newly-minted Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, a leader of the Brexit campaign, who has referred to the sitting Turkish President as a “goat f–er”, and who accused US President Barack Obama of harboring a part-Kenyan’s “ancestral dislike for the British empire”, and said of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that she is “like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital”, also chimed in.
