Munich shootings: What we know about the Olympia shopping centre attack
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Two days after a German-Iranian teenager killed nine people and then shot himself dead at Munich's Olympia shopping centre, this is what we know from the information given by police and prosecution sources.
The attacker
David Ali Sonboly, 18, was a student who had concluded Middle School
He was reportedly bullied by fellow pupils in 2012 and filed a complaint against alleged tormentors
He was in a psychiatric hospital for two months in 2015, then received treatment as an outpatient
Medical documents point to an anxiety disorder when in contact with other people
Medication was found in his family home; it is not known whether he had been taking it
Sonboly was an avid player of first-person shooter video games, including "Counter-Strike: Source"
He had planned the attack for a year
Last year he visited the German town of Winnenden, the scene of a school shooting in 2009, and took photos
He was interested in shooting sprees
He went on his own killing spree on the fifth anniversary of the Breivik massacre in Norway
But police did not find Breivik's manifesto at his home
He wrote a manifesto himself before the shooting - we don't know what it contains
He set up a fake Facebook account in May, and used data from an existing account
He did not deliberately select his victims, nor target foreigners
The victims
Sonboly killed nine people - we have the names of eight of them
Two 14-year-old Kosovan girls, Armela Segashi and Sabina Sulaj
Their Turkish friends Can Leyla, 14, and Selcuk Kilic, 15
17-year-old Hussein Daitzik, of Greek origin
Guilliano Kollman, 18, who was shot outside the fast food restaurant
Kosovar Dijamant Zabergja, 20
Sevda Dag, a 45-year-old Turkish woman
35 people were injured, of which 10 seriously and four with gunshot wounds
Unclear whether any of them had been lured with the attacker's Facebook invitation promising free food
The weapon
Sonboly used a 9mm Glock 17, a widely used law enforcement pistol
He is thought to have bought it on the "dark net", but this is not confirmed
Police say it is a "reactivated theatre weapon", a weapon deactivated for use as a prop, but then restored to being fully functioning
58 shell casings have been recovered from the crime scene, 57 of those were from the Glock 17, one was from a policeman's gun
They also found 300 bullets - it is not known where Sonboly got them
Weapons are strictly controlled in Germany
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere says he plans to review German gun laws
The police
Munich deployed 2,300 police officers to lock down the city on the night of the attack
Elite SWAT teams from around the country and neighbouring Austria were also deployed
Police were contacted by Sonboly's father after he saw the video shot in front of the McDonald's on television
There are calls for a constitutional change to allow the military to be deployed during attacks
Germany's post-war constitution only allows Bundeswehr deployment during national emergencies
They were responding to the second attack in less than a week in Bavaria
- Published24 July 2016
