Germany

“Our friends are now looking from the top”

Nine people shot and killed by a gunman at the Olympia shopping centre in Munich. The day after that, bewilderment reigns on the scene of the crime. Hundreds mourn the loss of their relatives and friends. From Munich, Friedel Dove.

The summer sun is shining on the ever-growing sea of flowers and candles. “Guili – You’re a part of is gone from us” is because with a teenager, hand written on a cardboard sign written. And there are also young people who come here to mourn. The street in front of the Munich OEZ is locked on the day after the alleged rampage. Anywhere you are in the arms, cry, bury their young faces in the T-Shirt, so no one from the other sees the tears. Teenagers everywhere you look. From time to time a squad of police makes its way through the crowd toward the cordoned-off shopping Mall, go up the stairs, behind them, specialists in suits, in white Plastic. While forensics and crime scene cleaning are still running, Munich is in mourning.

With an empty view of the 16-year-old Arsen looks amazing on a white plate with the simple inscription, “Why?”. He lives close to the OEZ. “My mother called me. You don’t get told, OEZ, here is a shootout and I’m in the middle. I wanted to go and get them out, but luckily, she then told me soon that she’s safe.” Arsenic has lost three friends at the time of the shooting, they knew each other from school. Now he’s on the phone all day, writes Whatsapp messages: “many Of my friends, I don’t know about. For some it was a case of, you were dead, then again, you were in the hospital.” Now he is here, to get clarity and to commemorate his friends. “I have to take it. It goes on. There is no other way.” Unreal the everything is to him still, what was he yesterday in the news, seen. “It’s just awful. If you know it is to happen, then it is terrible.”

“He was our big Cousin”

Nine people of the bombers, six of them teenagers, the youngest victim killed at just 15 years old. One of them was the Cousin of the 16-year-old Sergio. The hat shades the face, of the views of the paralyzed is he with his friend Osman in front of the stairs of the OEZ and speaks with police officers. He wants to know more about how his Cousin died. “He just wanted to the electric business, due to a new mobile phones. When he came out, it got him,” he says. “My mother yesterday on the phone long with our aunt. The whole family is in mourning. He was our big Cousin,” he says, and turns away – it is difficult for him, obviously, to talk about the fact.

Stunned: Sergio (left) and Osman

Also his friend Osman knew many of the victims from the school. “They’re watching us now, from the top, and I think it’s important to come and show them that I’m a friend,” he says with an almost proud Smile.

Almost everyone in Moosach knows one of the victims

All the victims came from Munich and the surrounding area, confirmed the police on Saturday morning at a press conference. Most of the OEZ clear, came directly here from the surrounding area, from the district of Moosach. A quarter away from the center, many high-rise buildings, rather quietly located in the North of the Bavarian capital. Although want to and can.shortly after the fact, not everyone the grief of the DW which describe his impressions and feelings – of those who do it, but knew almost any one or more of the victims, or at least an affected family

Memories of the friends than pictures collage

Several tall, muscular boys enter the place, use a large picture frame in Hand, target directed at the small road opposite the shopping centre, the leads of the quick-service restaurant to the electric business. Here, the offender began to shoot from what I know. Here, at this point, did not die before 24 hours of your friend. The Morning after you have designed in his honor a Collage with photos that you put here: It shows the guys at the parties, in holiday, a class photo is also. “Memories” on the picture frame – it’s only memories.

“I have guided 100 people in the basement”

It is already later in the afternoon, and still the stream of sorrow not tears. A little away from the Olympia shopping centre is one of those that can be described as the “unsung heroes” of Munich. And he is already back at work. Mair Najjarzadeh works for a security company, the next to the OEZ shopping centre, MONA secures, even now that it is closed. “All of them are over here running and wanted to go to MONA,” he said. “I then heard the shots and responded quickly. I have around herded 100 people into the basement.” When the police came, he had to lay even to the ground and the hands on the back fold could then explain but the Situation. “I am still much longer than I had to,” he says.

The question of “Why?” can answer, no one – according to the “what’s next?”. Sabina Cekaj, for example. “I wanted it yesterday around 18 o’clock in the OEZ,” she says. Then she looks at the other mourners, on the many signs on which the names of the victims. “All the little people here,” she says, and the voice remains the way almost, “I knew it all.” Now she wants to give comfort where you can. “Tonight, I’m going to visit some of the victims’ families.” What made the rampage with her? You yourself was not affected, luckily, but he will change you, too, believes Sabina Cekaj. “I felt in Munich, we are always comfortable and safe. Rampages were always in other cities. But now?” This much is clear: A piece of the safety and well-being is at 22. July in the OEZ all of a sudden, gone forever.