More global brands are setting their sights on the US for expansion after recent attacks in Germany and France, said Faith Hope Consolo, chairman of retail leasing and marketing at Prudential Douglas Elliman.
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Police said the assailant killed at least 9 people, and almost 21 people were sent to hospitals after the attack.
Munich’s main train station was evacuated completely and the city’s transport system was suspended.
Munich police called the mall shooting “suspected terrorism” in a statement but did not elaborate on who might have been behind it.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was being regularly briefed on the attack, said her chief of staff, Peter Altmaier. Munich police spokesman Marcus Martins said a ninth body had been found and police were “intensively examining” whether it might be one of the suspects.
Photos from the scene show people fleeing and what appears to be a body on the ground, the Mirror reported.
In the video, the attacker can be heard shouting: ‘I am German – I was born here’.
But authorities said at a news conference the shooter was believed to have staged the attack alone, opening fire in a fast food restaurant before moving on to the mall.
The advice level for Germany remains normal, but Australians have been told to exercise a high degree of caution in Munich and pay close attention to their personal safety.
U.S. President Barack Obama pledged support for Germany.
“At present we have no evidence indicating that any other person involved in this attack”, he said.
The Munich mall is located near the stadium for the 1972 Olympics and the athletes’ village which was the site of the hostage-taking and massacre of Israeli athletes by the Palestinian Black September group during the Games.
A witness, whose identity was withheld, said the man went out of the bathroom and began shooting targeting children.
The assailant was a 17-year-old Afghan man who lived in Germany.
“We entered McDonald’s to eat. then there was panic, and people ran out”, one woman told Bavarian public television.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is working urgently to determine whether any Australians have been caught up in a “shooting rampage” in the German city of Munich that has claimed the lives of at least 10 people.
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There had been reports of a second shooting at the Stachus metro station in the city centre, about five miles away from the mall.
