Munich Shooter Responded To 'f*****g Foreigner' Taunts By Saying 'I Am German...I Was Born Here'

Sonboly

This is the remarkable moment a brave member of the public confronted Ali Sonboly, the Munich terror suspect, from a balcony in a video that was filmed on Friday during his murderous rampage at a McDonald's restuarant.

The cell-phone video posted online showed the suspect dressed in black standing on a rooftop parking area of the mall yelling back and forth, saying at one point "I'm German" and eventually firing shots.

The conversation has been translated from German into English by Reddit users.

Balcony man: 'You fucking a*****e you...'

Gunman: 'Because of you I was bullied for 7 years...'

Balcony man: 'You w****r you. you're a w****r'

Gunman: '...and now I have to buy a gun to shoot you'

Balcony man: 'A gun! F**k off! Your head should be cut off you a*****e'
The gunman and balcony man begin shouting at each other.

Balcony man (apparently to people filming): 'He's got a gun here the guy has one'

Unseen voice: 'F*****g Turks!'

Balcony man: 'F*****g foreigner'

Balcony man to someone else: 'Ey! He's got a gun! He has loaded his gun. Get the cops here. He's walking around here the w****r!'

Gunman: 'I am German.'

Balcony man: 'You're a w****r is what you are'

Gunman: 'Stop filming!'

Balcony man: 'A w****r is what you are. What the f**k are you doing?'

Gunman: 'Yeah what, I was born here.'

Balcony man: 'Yeah and what the f**k you think you're doing?'

Gunman: 'I grew up here in the Hartz 4 (unemployment benefits in Germany) area.'
Balcony man and Shooter talk at same time.

Balcony man: 'Yeah treatment is something for you'

Gunman: 'I haven't done anything here for (unintelligible) ... 'Please shut your mouth'

Balcony man: 'You c**t you'

Balcony man to people nearby: 'Hey, he's on the upper floor here.'
The cameraman goes into cover as the gunman starts firing. Balcony man calls him a c***t again.
Balcony man: 'They must have been s******g into your head'
Gunman: 'They have not. They have not, that's the thing. They have not.'

The man shouting, heavy equipment operator Thomas Salbey, 57, had been sitting on his balcony overlooking the roof of the shopping centre when the first shots were fired.
"I was drinking a beer after work when I heard the shots, first at McDonald's . Bam bam bam – that’s how it sounded.
“This was just below our house . At first I thought it was a Kalashnikov he was firing.
“Then I looked down from the balcony and saw him running along the glass tunnel.
“As he reloaded his gun I got my beer bottle and threw it at him. It broke on the glass, but I don’t think he heard it."


The video, which was filmed by a neighbour, shows Salbey shouting at Sonboly, which prompted the killer to shoot up at him – as bullet-holes in the concrete balcony attest.
Salbey told Bild: “I hit the floor immediately, but I did see that he appeared to have gone quiet on the parking deck. By this time the police had arrived in front of the shopping centre.
“They didn’t know where he was, so I called over to them – ‘He’s there, up on the car park roof.


“I wasn’t afraid. I didn’t know whether he was doing it for real or if he was firing blanks”.


Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae told a news conference early Saturday that the suspect was a dual citizen from Munich and his motive was still "fully unclear." He said it was too early to label the attack an act of terrorism; earlier police said they had no indication of Islamic extremism.
"The question of terrorism or a rampage is tied to motive, and we don't know the motive," Andrae said.


Police gave a "cautious all clear" in the pre-dawn hours Saturday, more than seven hours after the attack began and brought much of the city to a standstill as all public transit systems were shut down amid a massive manhunt. They said a body found near the scene was that of the shooter and he appeared to have acted alone and killed himself as he fled.


Andrae said the suspect's body was found about 2 1/2 hours after the attack and was determined to be the shooter based on witness statements and closed circuit television footage of the attack. The shooter, whose name wasn't released, was not previously known to police and there was no evidence of any links to terrorist organizations, Andrae said.


"We can't question the suspect so this is all a little more difficult," he said.


telegraph,co.uk