Shooting in Munich Shopping Center

[Peter Lemkin]

Not sure about his religious 'identity', but it seems not to have played any part in this. However, we never hear of Christo-terrorists when Christians commit mass murder! Most Iranians are Muslim [not all], but they are NOT Arabs. The police say they have yet to interview the parents [giving them a few days to grieve - something that would never happen in the USA..]. His fascination seems to have been with mass killing events, and he is reported to have had a library of them in his room. He was seeing a psychiatrist [who is going to be in deep trouble for not warning of this, even though German law strictly forbids telling anything about patients]. The Police have hinted that the issue of mass killings was likely one of the topics the therapy focused upon. He did not have legal right to buy nor have the pistol nor ammunition and one wonders in Germany, with such tight control of guns and ammo, how he got it, when he got it, and how his parents, who he lived with, didn't know...or did they? Anyway, the MSM in the US and even in Europe to a lesser extent will spin this as they prefer - rather than follow the apparent facts (if the police reports are correct). It seems he was obsessed with the Breivik killings in Norway and chose the exact 5th anniversary for his own small version - if what we are told by the police is true [that they found lots of material on the Norway killings in his room]. He was not an immigrant, and he grew up with a self-identity of a German. His parents had come from Iran in the 1990s and were given asylum in Germany.

Ali David Sonboly, 18, launched his killing spree in the Bavarian city in an apparent revenge attack for being bullied. It is now thought he targeted youngsters of "Turkish and Arab" origin, having claimed those groups had picked on him in school.
Sonboly, who killed himself at the end of the attack, had set up a fake Facebook account using the identity of a pretty teenage girl.
Using the name "Selina Akim", Sonboly posted a message hours before the attack saying: "Come today at four o'clock to McDonald's at OEZ [shopping centre]. I am giving away anything you want as long as it's not too expensive."

Among those he murdered were a group of four children aged 14 and 15 who were mown down at the table where they were eating.
The teenage friends comprised two boys of Turkish origin and two girls from Kosovan families, bolstering the theory that Sonboly chose his victims as he rampaged through McDonald's and into a busy shopping centre. In all, seven of his victims were teenagers and the oldest was a 45-year-old mother of two of Turkish descent.

The massacre in Munich took place on the fifth anniversary of the Norway attacks and Sonboly had recently changed a profile picture on an online messaging service to one of Breivik.
Sonboly also had documents relating to a gun attack on a school in Bavaria in 2009 in which 16 teenagers were killed as well as a book called Why Kids Kill: Inside The Minds of School Shooters.
On the day of the attack, according to the newspaper Bild, Sonboly told associates via a computer game message: "Come to the McDonald's and I will come and get you and shoot you."

The German-Iranian student lived comfortably in a fifth-floor apartment in the middle class Munich suburb of Maxvorstad with his parents, one of them a taxi driver and the other a department store worker.
Thomas De Maziere, the German interior minister, said Sonboly's parents were asylum-seekers from Iran who came to Germany in the late 1990s.