The gunman was obsessed with mass shootings and had an obvious link to Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik
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Police in Germany today said the gunman who killed nine people at a shopping centre in Munich has no links to the Islamic State terrorist group.
Munich police chief said, the gunman was a deranged person and had been obsessed with books and articles about mass killings.
The Munich prosecutor also said, the suspect, whose name has been withheld for the time being, had suffered depression and reportedly undergone psychiatric treatment.
The gunman was obsessed with mass shootings and had an obvious link to Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, German police say.
Police who searched the 18-year-old’s room say they found written material on attacks. The gunman, who later killed himself, had a 9mm Glock pistol and 300 bullets.
Police are investigating whether he may have lured his victims through a Facebook invitation to a restaurant. He is suspected of using a fake account under a girl’s name to invite people to the McDonald’s restaurant where he launched his attack.
He murdered 77 people in Norway on 22 July 2011, killing eight with a bomb in the capital Oslo before shooting dead 69 at a summer camp for young centre-left political activists on the island of Utoeya.
Now 37, he is held in solitary confinement in Norway after being sentenced to 21 years in 2012. He recently won an appeal against the tough regime of his incarceration.
He harboured radical right-wing views and said his attack was aimed at stopping Muslim immigration to Europe.