Saturday, July 23, 2016

Merkel praises deployment of security forces in Munich – FinanzNachrichten.de

Chancellor Angela Merkel has praised the use of the security forces after the shooting in a Munich shopping center. This had “worked very professionally,” Merkel said on Saturday after a meeting of the security cabinet in Berlin.

The forces have secured a megacity in a confusing situation. Merkel also thanked the people of Munich for their solidarity. “In this freedom and humanity, our strength lies,” said the Chancellor. She spoke to the victims of their sympathy.

“We share their pain,” said Merkel. “So one night, so one night are hard to bear.” When shooting in a Munich shopping center man had shot at least nine people. 27 others were injured, according to police – four of them by gunfire, the other in flight or panic situations.

The culprit killed himself, according to the officials themselves. At present, the investigators go from a “classical Amoktäter without political motivation” from. The perpetrators have worked intensively with the topic Amok, evidence of a terrorist reference do not give it so far, said the Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae.

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