Teenage Munich killer ‘went on a weapons training holiday to Iran with his father’ before murdering nine in gun rampage

Daily Mail- Munich killer Ali David Sonboly went on a weapons training holiday to Iran with his father before embarking on his killing spree, it is claimed today.
A fortnight after the 18-year-old lured young people to a McDonald’s restaurant in Munich and killed nine of them before taking his own life it has emerged that the German-Iranian youth travelled with his father Masoud to Iran in December last year.
The news magazine Focus said that he underwent ‘weapons training’ while there which included firing guns.

Sonboly, who was obsessed by violent computer games and mass school shootings in both Germany and America, bought a 9mm Glock handgun from the ‘dark web’ for £80 to commit the murders.
The Munich prosecutor’s office refused to comment on the report saying: ‘We cannot make any comment on this aspect of the case due to the ongoing enquiry.’
His father Masoud did not mention the Iranian trip, or gun firing while there, in an interview last weekend with the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
At least 35 people were also wounded during Sonboly’s attack, which began at a McDonald’s restaurant and ended with him turning his 9mm Glock pistol on himself.
Investigators have ruled out any link with ISIS jihadists, although he appeared to have planned the assault with chilling precision for a year.
Many of his victims in the bloodbath were of foreign origin and there are investigations into whether he deliberately targeted them.

Armed police escort people near from inside the shopping centre following the deadly shooting attack.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the tragedy had plunged Germany into ‘deep and profound mourning’ that left a ‘night of horror’ lying behind the people of Munich
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the tragedy had plunged Germany into ‘deep and profound mourning’ that left a ‘night of horror’ lying behind the people of Munich.
The lone killer, an 18-year-old German-Iranian named in reports as Ali Sonboly, is thought to have attempted to lure victims to a McDonald’s opposite the mall with a fake Facebook profile promising free food.
It is unclear if those who died or were injured when he opened fire with a pistol had been enticed by message that is being probed by police.
Among the dead were two 14-year-old Kosovan girls, Armela Segashi and Sabina Sulaj, and their Turkish friends Can Leyla, 14 and Selcuk Kilic, 15, according to reports.
A 17-year-old named in reports as Hussein Daitzik, of Greek origin, is said to have been shot dead as he heroically shielded his sister.
Another youngster, named locally as Guilliano Kollman, 18, reportedly died after being shot outside the McDonald’s where Sonboly began his murderous rampage.

Source: Daily Mail, 5 Aug. 2016