German court convicts man who sold weapon to Munich shooter


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  • Friday, 19 Jan 2018

FILE PHOTO - Defendant Philipp K. and his lawyers David Muehlberger and Sascha Marks wait in a court room in Munich, Germany, August 28, 2017. One year after a man ran amok in the Olympia shopping center in Munich leaving nine people dead, the presumed gun dealer of the crime weapon began his trial today. REUTERS/Christof Stache/POOL

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A German man who admitted selling the weapon a teenage gunman used to killed nine people has been sentenced to seven years in prison, a court spokeswoman said on Friday.

David Ali Sonboly, 18, killed nine people in Munich in 2016 before shooting himself dead. Another 27 people were injured. Police concluded the German-born Sonboly was a lone gunman obsessed with mass killings and was not inspired by Islamist militancy.

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