BERLIN (AP) – The Latest on a series of attacks in Germany (all times local):
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Bavaria’s interior minister says the Munich shooter who went on a rampage that killed nine appeared to have seen it as an “especially positive fate” that his birthday was on the same day as Adolf Hitler’s, April 20.
Joachim Herrmann also told reporters Thursday that the 18-year-old German-Iranian assailant nourished sympathies for the Norwegian mass shooter Anders Behring Breivik who killed 77 people five years before the attack in Munich on the same date, July 22.
Herrmann said that, despite this, there was no indication that the Munich attacker was involved in right-wing networks.