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2016 Munich shooting
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mass shooting on 22 July 2016, in Munich, Germany
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Within Vinony's link graph, 2016 Munich shooting is referenced by 220 other articles, and connects out to far-right politics, Winnenden school shooting and Olympia-Einkaufszentrum.
The entry is geolocated on the map.
It is catalogued under topics including 2010s in Munich, 2016 in Bavaria and 2016 mass murders.
Its subject is documented across 41 Wikipedia language editions.
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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- murder–suicide
- Country
- Germany
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Location
- Munich
- Image
- Mcdonalds muenchen hanauer strasse oez.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 10
- Number of injured
- 36
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- point in time
- 2016-07-22
- number of participants
- 1
- Commons category
- 2016 Munich shootings
- inspired by
- 2011 Norway attacks
- number of perpetrators
- 1
- armament
- Glock 17
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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.