German Vice Chancellor, after shooting in Munich, called for limiting access to weapons

Vice-Chancellor, Minister of Economics and Energy of Germany Sigmar Gabriel, afterfiring in Munich, called for limiting access to firearms and strengthening control over it in the country. He stated this in an interview with Berliner Morgenpost .

"Control over firearms is an important point. We must continue to do everything possible to restrict access to weapons and put it under thorough control. How was a mentally unbalanced 18 -year -old teenager to get firearms? This still has to find out," the politician emphasized, whose words are quoted by TASS.

On July 22, the 18-year-old German of Iranian origin Ali David Sonboli opened firing in Munich at the Olympia shopping center. He killed nine people, another 27 were injured. After that, the criminal committed suicide.

The representative of the prosecutor’s office Thomas Steincraus-Koch said that Sonboli had previously consulted a doctor due to depression, but so far these data have not been finally confirmed.