page_title: 2016 Munich shooting
section_title: Domestic
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 Munich shooting / Reactions / Domestic
caption_attribution_description: English: 2016 Munich shootings flowers
context_page_description: On 22 July 2016, there was a mass shooting in the vicinity of the Olympia shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich, Germany. An 18-year-old Iranian-German, David Ali Sonboly, opened fire on fellow teenagers at a McDonald's restaurant before shooting at bystanders in the street outside and then in the mall itself. Nine people were killed and thirty-six others were injured, four of them by gunfire. Sonboly then hid nearby for more than two hours, and killed himself by a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he was stopped by police.
  Two reports by the Bavarian State Office of Criminal Investigation and public prosecutor's office concluded that the shooting was not political, saying Sonboly's main motive was "revenge". Police later opened an investigation into his contact with the perpetrator of the Aztec High School shooting. In 2019, the Bavarian Police declared that the shooting was now being classified as a "politically motivated crime" and that "the radical right-wing and racist views of the perpetrator should not be ignored."
context_section_description: Bavarian State Police urged the public not to publish online any photos or videos of the shooting. They provided a special upload platform which allowed witnesses to upload photos, audio, or video recordings directly in order to assist the investigation. Munich residents also used the Twitter hashtag #offeneTür (open door) to tell people in need of shelter where they could go.
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the victims' families in a press conference on 23 July by saying, "We suffer with you." She thanked the Munich residents who opened their doors for stranded people. The Minister-President of Bavaria, Horst Seehofer, urged extreme caution against drawing premature conclusions and noted that optimisation of the security forces had to be considered. He said that he had spent more than four hours in the operations centre on 22 July, and thanked the forces for acting with professionalism and calm. The Interior Minister of Bavaria, Joachim Herrmann, announced an investigation into why there had been numerous false alarms.
  The German Depression-Help Trust (Stiftung Deutsche Depressionshilfe) warned of stigmatizing mentally ill people in reaction to the shooting.
  After the shooter was revealed to have been born in Germany, the right-wing politician André Poggenburg was condemned and mocked in German media for having previously blamed Merkel's open refugee policy for the shooting.
caption: Flowers laid at the mall after the shooting
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