RAMPAGE WAS INSPIRED BY NORWAY MURDERS FACE OF A FIEND Beast set lethal trap
Brits caught up in the panic
MUNICH killer Ali Sonboly lured teenagers to their death by promising them free food at McDonald’s.
The 18-year-old, who had a fixation with mass murderer Anders Breivik, posed as a girl on Facebook.
Using the name Selina Akim, he urged people to go to the restaurant at 4pm. He told them: “Can I buy you something if you want, but not too expensive.”
Mentally-ill Sonboly then launched his murderous spree before firing shots at the Olympia mall across the road.
He killed nine people before shooting himself in the head.
Another 27 people were injured. Last night 10 of them, including a 13-year-old boy, remained in a critical condition.
A former pal said Sonboly was bullied at school and had threatened pupils that he would kill them in revenge.
Armed with a 9mm Glock 17 handgun and 300 rounds of ammunition hidden in his rucksack, he went on what police described as a “classic shooting rampage”.
An eyewitness called Loretta said she was in the McDonald’s on Friday evening when Sonboly came out of a bathroom and began firing.
She said: “I come out of the toilet and I hear like an alarm, boom, boom, boom. He’s killing the children. The children were sitting to eat. They can’t run.”
The killer had a document about ‘frenzied attacks’ and owned a book called “Rampage In Head: Why Students Kill”, according to police.
The German-Iranian shooter is said to have had a picture of right-wing spree killer Breivik as his profile pic on messaging service Whatsapp.
He carried out his attack five years to the day after Breivik left 77 dead in two TERRIFIED Brits caught up in the massacre last night told how they escaped the gunman.
Victor Wood, pictured right with wife Chantal, works in the mall where the attack took place. He was on his way home at 6pm on Friday when he heard shots.
He told how dozens of children were playing at a chess event yards from where the killer entered the building. Victor said: “It was a Friday evening and, as you can imagine, a lot of people were going shopping for their weekend.
“On the second floor there was a chess thing going on with lots of kids. The mall was fairly full. As we left the JIMMY McCLOSKEY attacks in Norway. Sonboly’s obsession with mass killings was revealed after police raided his home in Munich’s Maxvorstadt suburb, where he lived with his parents. Officials said there was an “obvious link” to Norwegian Breivik. Bavarian police chief Hubertus Andra said Sonboly was a “depressed” loner who had received psychiatric treatment. He ruled out an Islamic State link, despite the terror group claiming responsibility. He said: “There are no indications whatsoever that there is a connection to Islamic State.” Initially it was feared Sonboly was one of three gunmen, but it was later confirmed he acted alone. Former schoolmates claimed the killer had been bullied at school. One said: “He was in my class back then. “We always mobbed [bullied] him in school. and he always told us that he would kill us.” Yesterday German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the massacre was “difficult to bear for everyone”. She said Germany was “suffering with” the victims’ families. Mrs Merkel added: “What lies behind the people of Munich is a night of horror – we are still shocked by the pictures and reports of the witnesses. We are in deep and profound mourning for those who will never return to their families. “Such an evening and such a night are difficult to bear for every one of us. They are even more difficult to bear because we have had so many different and difficult reports of horrors in the past few days.” The Bavarian State premier Horst Seehofer called the killings – along with an axe attack on a German train last week – “an incomprehensible bloodbath”. He added: “Uncertainty and fear must not be allowed to gain the upper hand.” ISOBEL DICKINSON building we heard gun shots. It sounded to me like it was an automatic weapon at first.
“I heard between 15 and 20 shots.
“Of course there was a certain amount of panic because gunshots are not normal in a city in Europe. “There was also fear, uncertainty and doubt over what we should do.
“Our thought process was should we stay here? Are the gunshots coming from the underground or are they being reflected off a building, or is it someone letting off fireworks?
“There’s all sorts of these things going through your head in a flash.”
Victor, who has lived in Munich for 27 years, fled to an underground station. He added: “My heart goes out to the people who have been killed and their families.”
Jerome Burns, a holidaymaker from Northern Ireland, was at the city’s central train station with his wife at the time of the shooting.
He said: “We just became aware of pandemonium on the main station concourse – people just running everywhere.
“There was panic in their faces. We did not know what to do. But one of the security guards came into the office we were in and closed the door. “We were all ushered into the back of the office and then through a back door and down some back stairs into the basement of the station.
“We obviously were aware that something appeared to be going on because we knew about the attack in the shopping centre.”