Possible Terror Attack at Munich Mall

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Per Fox News

6 dead

Witnesses tell police 3 shooters.

Shooters at large.

Highways sealed.
 
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City mass transit shut down.

People told to remain in place.

Shooting took place in mall near Olympic Stadium.

Shooting started at a McDonald's.

No ID of shooters, speculation Muslim terrorists or right wing extremeists.

Obama to speak soon on Munich shooting.
 
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Police briefing on Fox.

Looking for 3 "Attackers."

"five people lost their lives"

"There's about 100 people were still trying to evacuate."

"can't answer how many injured at this time."

"weapon was pistol or short rifle."
 
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Per Fox News, "a German magazine, a shooter has shot himself in the head. "

Shepherd Smith added, their was a report that "one shooter was wearing boots associated with neo-nazi group"

Smith stressed that these reports have not been confirmed.

Smith noted so far the videos shown seem to be of the same shooter who is left handed.
 
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CNN just had a German women on the phone and she said she heard "allahu akbar, allahu akbar" Also gunmen are still not caught

On a side note the German police responded crazy fast compared to what you normally see anywhere.
 
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Germans are all about efficiency. GSG-9 going to bring the pain to some fools.
 
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calvegas04 said:
CNN just had a German women on the phone and she said she heard "allahu akbar, allahu akbar" Also gunmen are still not caught

On a side note the German police responded crazy fast compared to what you normally see anywhere.
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Fox News has also reported unconfirmed reports that the shooter at McDonald's wore boots associated with a Neo Nazi group. And the guy on the parking garage uttered moments in German about "foreigners".


No police confirmation on shooter's ID.
 
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BGIF said:
Fox News has also reported unconfirmed reports that the shooter at McDonald's wore boots associated with a Neo Nazi group. And the guy on the parking garage uttered moments in German about "foreigners".


No police confirmation on shooter's ID.
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Not saying that neo-nazis are particularly bright individuals, but if this was an attack perpetrated by a far right wing group, then this would be the absolute most idiotically counterproductive type of activity they could possibly think to do.
 
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Some jackass from The Daily Beast just said on CNN that this is like "the Mos Eisley cantina scene from Star Wars" because there are so many possible bad actors that you can't identify who it is.

What a horribly inappropriate time to try out your cute little quips.
 
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Munich shooting: Police operation underway, at least 6 dead - CNN.com

A witness who will only be identified as Lauretta told CNN her son was in a bathroom with a shooter at the McDonald's. "That's where he loaded his weapon," she said. "I hear like an alarm and boom, boom, boom... And he's still killing the children. The children were sitting to ear. They can't run." Lauretta said she heard the gunman say, "Allahu Akbar," or God is great. "I know this because I'm Muslim. I hear this and I only cry
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This is awful. I'm going to be in Munich in less than 2 weeks. I imagine the security is going to be even more intense now.
 
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These things are all FAKE if you see them on social media:

Kassam Haid
Sam Hyde
Samuel Hydberg

As far as I can tell, the fake Sam Hyde meme is the only thing out there that would point this towards "right wing nationalist."

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FAKE

This shit is being reported by Sky News, @theoreillyfactor, and VICE among other places. Everyone is in such a hurry to be the first to report something that fact checking goes completely to shit. Somebody tell Fox News that I'll gladly accept a position as "Director of Googling Shit Before You Put It On Air." Starting salary of $120,000 and I want Hannity's parking space.
 
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Suspected lone gunman among 10 dead, 10 injured in shooting spree at Munich shopping center | Fox News

A suspected terror attack on a Munich shopping mall Friday left at least 10 people dead, including the likely gunman, and at least 10 others injured while putting one of Europe's major cities on lockdown.

Authorities initially said they were searching for three attackers. However, Munich police said early Saturday there was a "high probability" that there was only one gunman, who committed suicide.

The suspected shooter's body was found more than half a mile from the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall. Police used a robot to investigate a red backpack found near the body. The backpack resembled one worn by a gunman seen opening fire on the sidewalk outside a McDonald's restaurant across from the mall.

The attack led to a major police operation in Germany's third-largest city. Responding to witness reports of multiple gunmen, Germany's elite GSG9 anti-terror police, as well as federal police, were called in to help with the search.

Munich's transit system was shut down for hours before it was reopened early Saturday. Local police asked people to avoid public places, a warning echoed by the U.S. Consulate, which advised American citizens to "shelter in place". Highways heading out of the city were closed and vehicle checkpoints were established.

With public transportation halted at the height of the Friday evening rush hour, Munich residents opened their homes to people seeking shelter using the Twitter hashtag (hash)opendoor.

The attack took place on the fifth anniversary of attacks in Norway by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a gun and bomb attack on a Labour party retreat, as well as the center of Oslo.

Munich police spokesman Thomas Baumann told dpa the attack began shortly before 6 p.m. local time. A video obtained by The Associated Press from German news agency NonstopNews showed two bodies with sheets draped over them not far from the restaurant.

Witness Luan Zequiri told German broadcaster NTV that he heard the attacker yell an anti-foreigner slur and "there was a really loud scream." He added that he saw only one gunman, who was wearing boots and a backpack.

"I looked in his direction and he shot two people on the stairs," Zequiri told the station. He said he hid in a shop, then ran outside when the coast was clear and saw bodies of the dead and wounded on the ground.

"Many shots were fired, I can't say how many but it's been a lot," an employee at the mall told NTV, according to Reuters. "All the people from outside came streaming into the store and I only saw one person on the ground who was so severely injured that he definitely didn't survive."

Germany's Interior Ministry said Munich police had set up a hotline for concerned citizens. On Twitter, police asked people to refrain from speculating on the attack. Germany's interior minister cut short his holiday in the United States to go back to Berlin late Friday to meet with security officials.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was being regularly briefed on the attack, said her chief of staff, Peter Altmaier.

"All that we know and can say right now is that it was a cruel and inhumane attack," he said on German public channel ARD. "We can't rule out that there are terrorist links. We can't confirm them, but we are investigating along those lines too."

Altmaier said numerous attacks had been prevented in Germany in recent years, "but, and this is important, there can never be absolute security.

"You can only have absolute security in an absolute surveillance state, and nobody wants that, it would be the opposite of our free western European way of life," he said. "But, and this became clear again today, we can't talk down this danger. It's a danger that many countries are exposed, especially in the west, and that's why it's important to give our security agencies the instruments they need."

In Washington, the White House issued a statement condemning the attack on what it called "the heart of one of Europe's most vibrant cities."

"The resolve of Germany, the United States, and the broader international community will remain unshaken in the face of acts of despicable violence such as this," the statement concluded.

The mall is located in the northern part of Munich is not far from the city's Olympic Stadium in the Moosach district of the Bavarian capital. It is also not far from where Palestinian attackers opened fire in the Olympic Village in 1972, killing 11 Israeli athletes.

It's the second attack in Germany in less than a week. On Monday, a 17-year-old Afghan wounded four people in an ax-and-knife attack on a regional train near the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg, and another woman outside as he fled. All survived, although one man from the train remains in life-threatening condition. The attacker was shot and killed by police.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the train attack, but authorities have said the teen likely acted alone.
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German-Iranian gunman kills nine in Munich, then himself: police | Reuters

Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:56am EDT
An 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman who apparently acted alone opened fire near a busy shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening, killing at least nine people in the third attack on civilians in Western Europe in eight days.

As authorities sought to piece together the circumstances of an attack behind which they had found no immediate evidence of an Islamist motive, Munich police said they would hold a 0930 GMT (5.30 am ET) news conference.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to meet her chief of staff Peter Altmaier, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere and intelligence officials on Saturday to review the incident. She will make a statement at 1230 GMT, her office said.

The pistol-wielding attacker, identified by Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae as a dual national from Munich, was later found dead of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Authorities said it was too early to say whether it was a terrorist attack but that the shooter was believed to have staged the attack alone, opening fire in a fast food restaurant before moving to the mall.

In addition to determining the motive, police will have to find out how the 18-year-old got the firearm used in the attack in a country whose gun control system is described by the U.S. Congress Library as being "among the most stringent in Europe."

The gunman, whose body was found on a side street near the mall, was not identified but Andrae said he was not previously known to police.

Police commandos, armed with night vision equipment and dogs, raided an apartment in the Munich neighborhood of Maxvorstadt early on Saturday where the German newspaper Bild said the gunman lived with his parents.

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Police said they were investigating a video in which the gunman is heard shouting "I am German" and exchanging racial slurs and profanities with another man. "We are trying to determine who said what," a police spokesman said.

U.S. intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said initial reports from their German counterparts indicated no apparent link between the shooter and Islamic State or other militant groups.

It was the third major act of violence against civilians in Europe in eight days. Previous attacks in France and Germany were claimed by Islamic State.

At least 16 people, including several children, were in hospital and three were in critical condition, Andrae said.

Kosovan media reported that three of the victims were of Kosovan origin. Naim Zabergja, the father of one of the victims wrote on Facebook: "With great sadness I want to inform you that my son Dijamant Zabergja, 21, was killed yesterday in Munich."

A second victim was named by her brother on Facebook as Armela Segashi, who he said died along with a third, Sabina Sulaj.

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He sounds pretty mentally unstable. He had tons of books and documents on mass killings. Almost like a copycat killer. He seems to have no connection to ISIS and didn't find references to religion at his home per the CNN article
 
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Watching the news this AM, I don't remember what channel, it was reported prior to the shooting the shooter sent out posts on social media advertising giveaways at the mall to invite more people to shoot.
 
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Unfortunately these terrorist attacks aren't even slightly surprising to me anymore.
 
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