Munich shooting: Video shows gunman shouting 'I am German' in furious exchange with bystander
The footage was filmed from a balcony of a nearby building
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Your support makes all the difference.Video footage has emerged purportedly showing the Munich shooter shouting “I am German” as he argues with bystanders.
Filmed from a balcony of a nearby building, it shows the alleged shooter walking on an adjacent structure, exchanging insults with onlookers.
The gunman, apparently acting alone, opened fire near a busy shopping mall in the Bavarian capital on Friday evening, killing nine people and injuring 16 more.
Shortly into the verbal exchange, the shooter, shouts "I am German" and then “I was born here” after the onlooker shouts xenophobic remarks at him.
After more hostile words between the two parties, gunshots are heard and the person behind the camera is forced to take cover behind a wall.
An abridged transcript of the exchange is below:
Man: Why you arsehole, you dog f******?
Alleged gunman: Because of you I was bullied for seven years...
Man: You w******, you are an arsehole, look here!
Gunman: And now I have to buy a weapon and shoot you all
Man: Yeah, you do that. Do you know what, your skull deserves to be bashed in.
Sirens in the background
You arsehole look here, HEY!
Gunman: (unintelligible) let, yeah?
Man, apparently to people filming: Hey, he’s got a firearm, the w*****, look here!
Another voice: F****** Turks!
Man: Fucking foreigners around here. HEY!
Person filming: (inaudible muttering, speaking to a woman)
Man: Hey, he’s got a firearm… He…he…he’s loaded his weapon.
…
Man: Get the cops! Look here! He’s walking about, the w*****
Gunman: I am German!
Man: You’re a w*****, you are!
Gunman: Stop whining!
Man: A w*****, what the f*** are you doing?
Gunman: “Yeah what, I was born here.”
Man: So what, what the f*** are you doing?
Gunman: …I was born in the Hartz IV (unemployment benefits in Germany) area
Man: Your brain deserves to be bashed in, you arsehole down there!
Gunman: In the…
Man: Skull!
…
Gunman: I haven’t done anything since the fifth grade/school class (sounds agitated)
Man: Is this live ammunition?
Gunman: Shut your mouth
Man: HEY!
(murmuring from those filming)
Man: He’s walking about in the upper corner, he’s walking around here.
(Person filimg speaks to woman)
Two gunshots. Sounds of people panicking and screaming.
One or two more gunshots, muffled.
…
Man: Arsehole! You f****** arsehole!
Another voice: Is this real, what’s happening? Have they…
Man: (Unintelligible)…you complete idiot.
Translation by Jess Staufenberg
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