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| 'He seemed like a lazy guy': locals describe Munich shooter | 'He seemed like a lazy guy': locals describe Munich shooter |
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| The Iranian-German 18-year-old who rampaged through a Munich shopping centre, killing nine and injuring many more, was a lazy teenager who used to dump copies of a free newspaper he was paid to deliver into bins outside his home, the owner of a cafe below his family apartment has said. | The Iranian-German 18-year-old who rampaged through a Munich shopping centre, killing nine and injuring many more, was a lazy teenager who used to dump copies of a free newspaper he was paid to deliver into bins outside his home, the owner of a cafe below his family apartment has said. |
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| “I saw him every once in a while pass by, he was a very shy guy and tall, about 6ft 2in [1.88 metres]. He wasn’t very sporty, rather a little chubby,” said Stephan Baumanns, the 47-year-old owner of the Treemans bakery and coffee shop in the leafy Maxvorstadt neighbourhood. “He seemed like a lazy guy. He had a job distributing a free newspaper, Münchener Wochenblatt, but I often saw him rather than deliver them, throw them all away into the garbage bin.” | “I saw him every once in a while pass by, he was a very shy guy and tall, about 6ft 2in [1.88 metres]. He wasn’t very sporty, rather a little chubby,” said Stephan Baumanns, the 47-year-old owner of the Treemans bakery and coffee shop in the leafy Maxvorstadt neighbourhood. “He seemed like a lazy guy. He had a job distributing a free newspaper, Münchener Wochenblatt, but I often saw him rather than deliver them, throw them all away into the garbage bin.” |
| Baumanns said he did not know the family well, but was familiar enough with the gunman for the first videos of the shooting outside a shopping centre McDonald’s to look ominously familiar. “Yesterday when I saw the footage on TV, I thought, ‘shit, that might be my neighbour’. I was quite frightened and I think the situation feels very disconcerting,” Baumanns said. “Munich has always felt safe, but now I feel a bit different if I see someone like him. An 18-year-old who never seemed very enterprising or active, can easily get a gun and shoot down people.” | Baumanns said he did not know the family well, but was familiar enough with the gunman for the first videos of the shooting outside a shopping centre McDonald’s to look ominously familiar. “Yesterday when I saw the footage on TV, I thought, ‘shit, that might be my neighbour’. I was quite frightened and I think the situation feels very disconcerting,” Baumanns said. “Munich has always felt safe, but now I feel a bit different if I see someone like him. An 18-year-old who never seemed very enterprising or active, can easily get a gun and shoot down people.” |
| The gunman, whose father drives a cab, was a little nervous but had never seemed violent, Baumanns said. “He wasn’t intimidating-looking but a little strange in character, always seemed a bit nervous,” he said. | The gunman, whose father drives a cab, was a little nervous but had never seemed violent, Baumanns said. “He wasn’t intimidating-looking but a little strange in character, always seemed a bit nervous,” he said. |
| Another neighbour told the local broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk that he had always seemed pleasant. “The lad was very, very nice. I really can’t say anything bad about him.” | |
| When Treemans turned up at work, about 7am on Saturday, police were carting cardboard boxes out from the apartment and asked him to delay opening his cafe, but they were gone in less than an hour. | When Treemans turned up at work, about 7am on Saturday, police were carting cardboard boxes out from the apartment and asked him to delay opening his cafe, but they were gone in less than an hour. |
| Neighbours said the block, of around a dozen apartments was a rare unit of social housing in a rapidly gentrifying area. The entrance is beside a Maserati showroom, and neighbours include a PR agency, as well as Baumanns’s cafe. | |
| “Yesterday all the employees were sitting in the office until midnight, we were so afraid to leave the building. It was a bit scary to find out this morning that we were next to the apartment where the gunman lived, when we thought we were protecting ourselves,” said Sebastian, the 30-year-old owner of the PR agency. | |
| “But I don’t think it will make me feel different about the neighbourhood. We shouldn’t go crazy over it, this could happen anywhere.” |