A 16-year-old Afghan friend of David Ali Sonboly, who killed nine people at a Munich shopping center on Friday, was arrested and under investigation for failing to report the attacker's plans, and that he could have been an accomplice.
In a statement, the 16-year-old reported to the police immediately after the shooting on Friday, and was interviewed as somebody who was connected with the attacker. But in the course of the interview, they discovered some discrepancies in his statements.
Now, the investigations will have to go further, if he was involved in a Facebook post inviting people to meet at a cinema complex near the main railway station in Munich.
The attacker himself had put up a post on a fake Facebook account before his attack, inviting people to come to the fast food restaurant where the shooting began.
Police has revealed that Sonboly, 18, had been planning his attack for a year. They say he had a Glock pistol which he may have bought on the so-called "dark net." It had been a theater prop, but had been restored to fully functional.
According to Robert Heimberger, head of Bavaria's criminal police, the gunman had been planning the attack since he paid a visit last year to the town of Winnenden -- the scene of a school shooting in 2009 -- and took photographs.
Sonboly was also said to be a keen player of "first-person shooter" video games.
The Munich prosecutors' office told in a news conference that the gunman had spend two months as an inpatient at a mental care facility in 2015 and was afterwards treated as an outpatient. The suspect had "fears of contact with others" and depression.
Seven teenagers were killed at the Olympia shopping center -- two Turks, two Germans, a Hungarian, a Greek and a Kosovan. 35 people were injured, but only four of them have bullet wounds. Most of them were hurt while fleeing the scene.
The parents of the gunman remained in shock and were not able to be interviewed.
Also, there was no evidence of any political motivation for the attack.
Source: BBC
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