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In reply to the discussion: So it's not a terrorist attack if it's an RW white guy or guys [View all]malaise
(296,946 posts)25. That is not true
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/23/munich-shooting-teenage-gunman-researched-killing-sprees-no-isis-links
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The lone teenager who shot dead nine people and injured 27 others in Munich had amassed literature relating to killing sprees and police responses to them but had no links to Islamic State, officials have said.
Police said the gunman, who opened fire at a crowded shopping centre and McDonalds restaurant on Friday evening, was an 18-year-old German-Iranian who had been raised in Munich and had no prior criminal record.
Live Munich shooting: Merkel set for emergency talks after gunman kills nine live
Police give all clear and say high probability attacker acted aloneGunman was 18-year-old German of Iranian descentWhat we know and what we dont know about the attack
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They said he had been in full-time education and there were indicators he had been in psychiatric care and was treated for depression.
The gunman has been named in reports as Ali Sonboly. Neighbours told the Guardian Sonboly was a shy, lazy teenager who used to shirk his job as newspaper delivery man.
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The lone teenager who shot dead nine people and injured 27 others in Munich had amassed literature relating to killing sprees and police responses to them but had no links to Islamic State, officials have said.
Police said the gunman, who opened fire at a crowded shopping centre and McDonalds restaurant on Friday evening, was an 18-year-old German-Iranian who had been raised in Munich and had no prior criminal record.
Live Munich shooting: Merkel set for emergency talks after gunman kills nine live
Police give all clear and say high probability attacker acted aloneGunman was 18-year-old German of Iranian descentWhat we know and what we dont know about the attack
Read more
They said he had been in full-time education and there were indicators he had been in psychiatric care and was treated for depression.
The gunman has been named in reports as Ali Sonboly. Neighbours told the Guardian Sonboly was a shy, lazy teenager who used to shirk his job as newspaper delivery man.
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white shooters are mentally ill and act alone. others are radical islamic terrorists in cells.
unblock
Jul 2016
#5
Notice all Islamophobes took a break from posting their fear mongering bullshit
tenderfoot
Jul 2016
#10
I noticed that on Sky news, one guy shut that down fast - noting terror is terror, whoever
suffragette
Jul 2016
#11
Lol....so when all of the bigots run around here yelling all muslims are evil it's ok.
giftedgirl77
Jul 2016
#38
I think Germans have autonomy to call events as they see them. And this one WAS a lone
WinkyDink
Jul 2016
#51
Terrorism is defined as being a politically motivated event. Mass murder and spree killings
underahedgerow
Jul 2016
#57
I will easily say that any person that adopts those basest, lowest and most evil of ideologies is
underahedgerow
Jul 2016
#59