FOR many months, as terrorist attacks have plagued France and Belgium, observers have wondered why Germany had not yet been affected. Now, in just the past week, two attacks have struck Bavaria. On July 22nd an 18-year-old with German and Iranian citizenship opened fire at a shopping mall in Munich, killing at least nine people before apparently committing suicide. Police say they do not yet know his motive.
Four days earlier a 17-year-old Afghan refugee wielding an axe and a knife attacked passengers on a train near Würzburg, injuring five people before being shot dead by police. The train attacker appears to have been influenced by Islamic State propaganda.
The bloodshed in Munich began shortly after 5pm, when gunshots and casualties were reported inside the Olympia shopping mall in the city’s northern district of Moosach. At 5.50pm, several witnesses reported shots fired at a McDonald’s franchise in a nearby street. The attacker, armed with a pistol, encountered a plain-clothes police patrol which fired at him but then lost sight of him, said Munich’s police chief, Hubertus Andrä.
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