2016 Munich shooting

The attack took place on the fifth anniversary of the 2011 Norway attacks.

On 22 July 2016, a mass shooting occurred in the vicinity of the Olympia shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich, Germany.

An 18-year-old Iranian-German, David 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 36 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 when confronted by police.

Two reports by Bavaria's State Office of Criminal Investigation and another by the public prosecutor's office concluded the shooting was not political, saying Sonboly's main motive was "revenge" for bullying by others from immigrant backgrounds, and that mental illness, romantic rejection and obsession with other shooting rampages were also a factor.

Germany's security agency described him as a "psychologically ill avenger".

An independent report by three political scientists said Sonboly may also have been driven by xenophobia or far-right ideology.

Der Spiegel reported in 2016 that fellow online video gamers said that Sonboly wrote anti-Turkish messages, admired Germany's right-wing AfD party, and was "very nationalistic".

According to media reports, some of those who knew him said he considered himself part of the Aryan race, and boasted about sharing the same birthday as Adolf Hitler.

On the evening of 22 July 2016, David Sonboly opened fire at a McDonald's restaurant near the Olympia shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich, Germany.

Despite initial reports of multiple attack sites, police could not confirm attacks in any locations other than the shopping area.

Sonboly had made a fake Facebook account with a girl's name and posted four invitations to come to the restaurant, but "none of the addressees apparently complied".

He stayed in the restaurant from about 5pm.

At about 5:50pm, he went into the toilets on the first floor and took a handgun from his backpack.

He then left the toilets and opened fire on a group of six teenagers sitting at a table, killing five and wounding another.

Eighteen bullets were fired.

He immediately left the restaurant, turned to the right and began shooting at people fleeing towards an electronics shop and at two vehicles parked there.

He fired sixteen bullets in this area, killing three people and wounding three others.

Sonboly then crossed Hanauer Strasse and slowly walked into the shopping mall, where he fatally shot another teenager near the lifts.

At about 6pm, Sonboly walked from the shopping mall, over a covered footbridge to the adjoining multistorey car park.

While on this bridge, he fired shots towards the parking deck and a passer-by, but hurt no one.

He fired thirteen rounds at two unoccupied parked vehicles and walked onto the top parking deck.

There, Sonboly had an argument with a man who shouted at him from the balcony of his flat.

During this argument, Sonboly fired two shots at the man.

Another man, who was also on his balcony, was wounded by a rebounding bullet.

Sonboly fired three more times towards the mall and towards an employee, without hurting anyone.

Police officers spotted the gunman from an outdoor balcony of the mall, and one officer fired a shot from a submachine gun at him, but missed.

Sonboly ran across Riesstraße and hid in a residential area.

He tried to get into a house, and lingered in a stairwell, where he had contact with residents.

He then hid in a bicycle storage room.

At 8:26pm he went outside and was confronted by police officers, whereupon he fatally shot himself in the head.

An early witness, identified only by her first name Lauretta, in talking to CNN correspondent Doug McConnell on the phone claimed that the gunman had shouted "Allahu Akbar!"

The woman's account has not been verified by other witnesses or the police, though it was widely disseminated in the media.

A video distributed online showed a gunman firing at pedestrians outside McDonald's. He then moved on to the shopping mall itself.

Another video showed the gunman walking alone on the roof of a nearby car park before opening fire again.

He was heard shouting "I am German" (Ich bin Deutscher) and "I was born here" (Ich bin hier geboren) after an onlooker shouted anti-Turkish statements and other abuse at him.

According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the gunman also shouted back "Fucking Turks".

However, it is still not clear who started the anti-Turkish insults.

In light of this several politicians urged the police to focus on his possible political motives and in 2019 Bavarian police declared that the shooting was partly motivated by far-right extremism.