Chancellor Angela Merkel of the victims of the alleged killing spree of Munich has thought. “We share your pain, we think of you, we suffer with you,” she said in Berlin directed to the relatives. At the same time thanked Merkel the many Munich residents who had opened their doors to citizens in the evening and at night. “In this freedom and humanity is our greatest strength.”
you but also understand the uncertainty of many people, Merkel said. “There are always places where each of us could have been. So I can understand everyone who approaches today with trepidation to a crowd of that in mind, the question of whether it is safe then.”
On Friday night had a 18-year-old student at the Munich Olympia Shopping Mall killed nine people. He was later found dead, the investigators believe that he shot himself. Many of the victims were minors.
After the fact, the situation remained difficult to see through into the night. For the safety of public transport has been set. Under the hashtag #offenetuer gave Munich the stuck in the city people to a shelter. According to the Bavarian State 100 people were insecure temporary basis. therefore came under about 20 to 30 people in the Bavarian administrative headquarters alone.
In her speech, Merkel thanked also the police officers involved in the Bavarian state and federal police. The task forces have worked very professionally and communicate calmly, said the Chancellor. “They were and are in the best sense helper and protector of the citizens.”
The Munich police reinforcements from other states, associated by the special unit GSG 9 and the elite Cobra from Austria. Overall, 2,300 policemen were deployed to bring people out of the firing line to track down the perpetrators and to keep the population informed.
De Maizière: No evidence of terrorism
On Friday evening Merkel had convened the security cabinet, at noon, the Panel had met to to discuss the current security situation. Subsequently Also Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière expressed about the fact in Munich. “It tears a seemingly heart,” the minister said, referring to the predominantly young victims.
The state of the investigation said de Maizière that the offender before his act a Facebook account of another person have hacked to specifically to entice young people into the fast food restaurant at the shopping center. One Islamist background concluded the Minister of Interior According to current knowledge again. If it were likely around a single perpetrator.
Among the designs of the young man said de Maiziere that there is evidence of a Amoktat. In the apartment of the offender material had been found, the compounds aufzeige the Winnenden school shooting in 2009 and to the mass murders of the Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik exactly five years ago. Also there is evidence that the 18-year-old had been bullied.
Possible security consequences of Amoktat de Maiziere declined to comment. “Today I want to say about political consequences not a word,” said the Minister.
Bundeswehr mission was in question
Meanwhile, Federal Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) stated that on Friday night temporarily the deployment of the Bundeswehr had been considered domestically. “As long as the extent of the stop on Friday was not clear, a military police unit of the Bundeswehr in Munich was put in readiness,” said von der Leyen of Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung .
About a possible use would have to be decided by the competent police authorities, added von der Leyen added. “You watch the development of a terrorist situation and know exactly when its own forces to their limits or special skills are required, has only the Bundeswehr.”
military missions inside are in connection with a terrorist threat may possible and planned. The declared von der Leyen at the presentation of the new White Paper two weeks ago. The White Paper sets out the security and defense strategy of the government for the next ten-year period.
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