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2016 Munich shooting
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mass shooting on 22 July 2016, in Munich, Germany
Key facts
- Date
- 22 July 2016 ; 9 years ago ( 2016-07-22 ) , 17:52 – 20:26 ( UTC+2 )
- Target
- Civilians
- Attack type
- Mass shooting , mass murder , murder–suicide
- Weapons
- 9mm Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol
- Deaths
- 10 (including the perpetrator)
- Injured
- 36 (4 by gunfire)
- Perpetrator
- David Sonboly (born Ali Sonboly)
- Motive
- Far-right extremism Xenophobia
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
On 22 July 2016, a mass shooting classified as a right-wing extremist attack occurred in the vicinity of the Olympia shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich, Germany. The perpetrator, 18-year-old Iranian-German David Sonboly, opened fire on teenagers with migrant background at a McDonald's restaurant before shooting at bystanders in the street outside and then in the mall itself. Nine people were killed – most of them with immigrant backgrounds – and 36 others were injured, four of them by gunfire.
Sonboly, who had been influenced by far-right ideology, xenophobia, and racist beliefs, hid nearby for more than two hours and killed himself by a self-inflicted gunshot wound when confronted by police. Later investigations determined that the attack was politically motivated and driven by right-wing extremist views.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “2016 Munich shooting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.