Safety
Only without a backpack to the Oktoberfest?
With far more than six million visitors to the “Wiesn” in Munich is the world’s largest economies. According to the most recent blood works will be discussed about the concept of security.
After the bloody rampage of Munich, the Lord mayor of Munich, Dieter Reiter, a backpack ban at Oktoberfest into the conversation. In addition to more intensive checks of bags and backpacks could perhaps “be even thinking about a ban on backpacks”, said the SPD-politician in the Bavarian broadcasting. “I think a lot of people have for that understanding.” Both the gunman from Munich, as well as the suicide bombers in the middle Franconian town of Ansbach, were with a backpack on-the-go.
Bavaria’s interior Minister Joachim Herrmann announced after the recent acts of violence in the free state for the Oktoberfest, a strong police presence. The CSU politician, but also made it clear that the mass event leave not in a high-security zone transform.
Admission control in front of a beer tent at the Oktoberfest 2015
“We want to preserve the character of the Volksfests. It is hardly possible to every visitor to a body cavity search to how to the airport,” said Herrmann to the magazine “Focus”. The world’s largest folk festival starts on the 17th. September.
A friend of the gunman free
Meanwhile, the Munich police released the suspected accomplices of the gunman again. Against the 16-Year-old is determined because of the “I dance, especially of a Crime”, because he probably knew of the planned killing spree. The public Prosecutor had requested the warrant due to the danger of collusion. The investigating judge saw no probable cause and no reason for detention. Dien office of the public Prosecutor announced an appeal against this decision.
According to the investigating authorities, the 18-year-old gunman Ali David S. has met briefly before the fact, with the 16-Year-old in the area of the crime scene. One of the Younger deleted, and the police recovered chat history between the two friends shows, according to Prosecutor Thomas Steinkraus-Koch, the 16-Year-old had met on Friday to “immediately” prior to the rampage, with S. in the area of the crime scene. Also, he should have known that his friend was in possession of the gun from the model of the Glock and ammunition. “This raises the possibility that our present accused could have some of the fact known result for us,” said Steinkraus-Koch. Met the two young people in psychiatry.
Grieving people in front of the Einkaufszentum
S. a single offender
The investigators, despite the close connection of the two young people continue to believe that S. committed the rampage alone, he had moved on Friday evening in the Bavarian capital on hours in a panic. The German-Iranians shot at the Olympia shopping centre nine people and then himself. 35 people were injured, of them, no one hovering now in danger of their lives. The shops in the shopping center opened on Monday.
wl/kle (dpa, afp)