About that Munich shooting
by digby
It sounds like this really was a very disturbed mentally ill young Lone Wolf.
Your latest gun tragedy:
The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings but had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say.
Written material on such attacks was found in his room. Munich’s police chief spoke of links to the massacre by Norway’s Anders Behring Breivik.
The gunman, who had dual German-Iranian nationality, later killed himself.
His name has not been officially released but he is being named locally as David Sonboly.
He had a 9mm Glock pistol and 300 bullets in his rucksack.Police do not yet know how the weapon was acquired, but said he had no permit for it and the serial number had been obliterated.
They are investigating whether he may have lured his victims through a Facebook invitation to the McDonald’s restaurant where he launched his attack on Friday evening.
Candles and flowers were laid outside the shopping mall on Saturday
The father of Dijamant Zabergja clutches a photo of his son in Munich,
The father of one young Kosovan victim, Dijamant Zabergja, displayed his son’s photo
Friday evening’s attack at the Olympia shopping mall also left 27 people injured, including children. Ten of them are critically ill, including a 13-year-old boy, police say.Seven of the dead were teenagers. Three victims were from Kosovo, three from Turkey and one from Greece.
Police say the Munich-born gunman had been in psychiatric care, receiving treatment for depression.
“We are in deep mourning… we share your grief”, said Chancellor Angela Merkel after chairing a meeting of the national security council.
Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae said there was an “obvious” link between the new attack and Friday’s fifth anniversary of Breivik’s attacks in Norway, when he murdered 77 people.
Mr Andrae warned the number of injured could increase if people who had fled the scene came forward.
Brevik, of course, was a right winger. And Iran is an enemy of ISIS. So despite what people on the right are saying this, like so many of these spasms of violence it seems to be much more related to mental illness than ideology. And the viral nature of these things cannot be ignored.
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