Terror in Germany. Ten dead, one of whom is the bomber, all young and 27 injured in the massacre perpetrated in the afternoon in Munich in a McDonald's restaurant and then in the crowded Olympia shopping center on the northern outskirts of the city. As announced during the night by the police, the shooter was an 18-year-old German-Iranian, Ali Sinboly, for reasons that will need to be clarified: terrorism or madness, the two hypotheses. It is the most serious massacre, in the heart of Bavaria, since the attack on the Munich Olympics in 1972. In Germany, national mourning and solidarity have been proclaimed by all international political leaders.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel he expressed the "great condolences" of the government and of Germany towards "the families of those who will never return home, in the name of all we share your pain, we suffer with you. The thought of the numerous wounded who can recover completely”, he added in the press conference after the attack in Munich, at the end of the meeting of the National Security Council. “Any of us could have been there and I can understand those who feel insecure,” he added, before assuring: “We'll find out what exactly is behind this Munich act. The state will do everything to ensure the safety and freedom of all people in Germany."
The killer, with dual German and Iranian citizenship and a resident of Munich for several years, who started shooting a pistol shortly before 18 pm in front of the Mac Donald's fast food restaurant. He was chased by plainclothes officers and then, as confirmed by the Munich police chief, Hubertus Andrae, he committed suicide about a kilometer from the “Olympia” shopping center where he completed the massacre. The victims are all young, some had not turned 18, and among the injured there are children. Despite initial information, generated by testimonies about a car that left at high speed with three people on board and then proved to be unrelated to the massacre, it is excluded that the young German-Iranian had accomplices or that there were two other attackers. It was precisely the supposed escape of other accomplices that had triggered the state of emergency in Munich on Friday evening, the closure of the subway, the invitation to citizens to remain closed at home and the dispatch of special anti-terrorism units to the scene.
In an official statement the Munich police had in fact declared a “grave terrorist situation”. And the alarm had gone off at the highest levels.
Now that the massacre is over, many questions remain about the possible reasons behind the attack that has sown terror and panic. Terrorism or madness? Furthermore, an invitation had appeared on social networks, later cancelled, to meet at the Mac Donald's from which the massacre started. Almost an attempt to attract families and then hit and reach more people, including children.
An eyewitness interviewed by CNN said he heard the McDonald's killer shout 'Allah Akbar', Allah is great, before opening fire on the seated children. "They were not able to escape", says the woman crying and explaining that she has no doubts about the shooter's screams because she is Muslim. The XNUMX-year-old perpetrator of the massacre is described as a quiet boy and was unknown to the police. The father has been under interrogation since Friday night.
Some of the videos circulating on the net are considered reliable by the Munich police who have made a web page available, reports the Corriere della Sera.it, to upload footage that can help shed some light on the shooting. In one of these videos, a citizen, from the roof of the building adjacent to the shopping centre, insults the killer by calling him the German equivalent of "asshole". The exchange between the two takes place in the Bavarian dialect. The attacker says: "I am German", born in Germany, in a poor neighborhood inhabited by recipients of public subsidies (Harz IV). And again: «I was in treatment». Detail to which the Bavarian citizen replies: «That is the place where you should be, in psychiatric treatment». The 18-year-old shooter would also have thrown arrows at foreigners and Turks.
"It was the most difficult day of my career," said the commander of the Munich police, Hubertus Andrä who followed the intervention of his men throughout the evening, disoriented by the dozens of false alarms that followed one after the other . 2.300 men from the Munich police and anti-terrorist reinforcements from the neighboring Lands, Hesse and Baden Wüttemberg were involved in the operation.
