He had also rented a hotel room in Vienna – presumably exclusively to purchase weapons – where one of the three long guns he had bought was found. The public prosecutor’s office in Heidelberg announced this information on Thursday.
Was buying guns legal?
Apart from that, the 18-year-old is unlikely to have had any personal contacts in Vienna. “There is currently no reliable evidence that the alleged perpetrator has a connection to Austria that goes beyond the mere purchase of weapons,” said the press office of the Heidelberg public prosecutor’s office on request. According to the current state of knowledge, there are no formal investigations being conducted against the gun sellers: “It cannot be ruled out that the gun purchase was legal in Austria.”
Can found in hotel
The Ministry of Justice in Vienna said on Thursday that no house search had taken place in connection with the bloody deed in the south-west German city of Vienna. The rifle, which the 18-year-old had bought from a private individual, should have been discovered by the staff in the hotel where he had stayed a week before the crime, before the domestic security forces got wind of the matter from their German colleagues got. The Vienna police then secured the weapon. With the other two long guns purchased from a Viennese arms dealer, the 18-year-old first shot himself during a lecture at university and later killed himself.
Source: Nachrichten
