German court convicts man who sold weapon to Munich shooter

*(50$N< - $ *erman man who admitted selling the weapon to a teenage gunman who killed nine people has been sentenced to seven years in prison, a court spokeswoman said yesterday.

David $li Sonboly, , killed nine people in 0unich in

before shooting himself dead. $nother people were inMured. 3olice concluded the *erman-born Sonboly was a lone gunman obsessed with mass killings and was not inspired by ,slamist militancy. The 0unich public prosecutor’s office had charged the accused man with nine counts of negligent homicide, five counts of negligently causing grievous bodily harm and selling weapons illegally. 3ublic prosecutors had called for the man - identified only as 3hilipp K, as is customary under *erman law - to be sentenced to seven years and two months in prison. +is lawyers had sought three and a half years.

$uthorities arrested the man in 0arburg, about km

miles north of )rankfurt in , after contacting him on the so-called µdark net’ and posing as buyers for an automatic weapon and a *lock

pistol for , euros , .

During a sting operation, the suspected arms dealer said he had sold the -year-old ,ranian-*erman another *lock

pistol during a meeting in 0arburg, followed by rounds of ammunition during a second meeting. $ spokeswoman for the public prosecutor had said in $ugust that evidence heard during the trial had shown that the suspect had far-right attitudes.

(Reuters)