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Munich Shooter Was Planning Crime for Over a Year
The 18-year-old gunman who officials say fatally shot nine people before killing himself at a busy shopping mall in Munich on Friday had been planning his crime for over a year and suffered from a range of mental health issues, according to officials.
The attacker, whom authorities have yet to identify, suffered from "social phobia," anxiety, was taking medication for these illnesses, and had been treated in a psychiatric clinic for two months in 2015, according to the Munich State Prosecutor's office.
In addition to the nine killed, 35 people were injured in the attack, of whom 10 are in critical condition.
The Bavarian Federal Criminal Office examined potential motives for the attack, but found nothing tangible to link the shooting the to the massacre perpetrated by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik in 2011, who killed eight people with a van bomb and 69 others in a shooting spree in Norway five years ago. Initial speculations about the shooting spree was that it related to the Breivik attack, due to it falling on the fifth anniversary of the murders in Norway.
"We didn't find the Breivik manifesto on his computer," the Bavarian Federal Criminal Office said. "He wrote his own manifesto, describing how he was going to do the crime."
The gunman, who was born in Germany and of Iranian descent, did however harbor an interest in the subject of mass shootings: He kept a book that included case studies of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the high school students who murdered 12 classmates and one teacher at Columbine High School in 1999, and Cho Seung-hui, a student who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007. Today, the Bavarian Federal Criminal Office revealed that the shooter visited Winnenden, a small town where a school shooting took place, resulting in 16 deaths, including the suicide of the perpetrator, and took pictures there.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/munich-shooter-planning-crime-year/story?id=40833181
今回取り上げる単語は、"harbor"です。"harbor"は、名詞で「港、湾」などの意味が一般的ですが、ここでは動詞で違った意味で使われています。
LDOCEで調べてみると、"to keep bad thoughts, fears, or hopes in your mind for a long time"や"to contain something, especially something hidden and dangerous"や"to protect and hide criminals that the police are searching for"などの意味がありました。
『ジーニアス英和辞典』第4版(大修館)でも、1.「(犯人などを)かくまう」2.「(悪意、希望などを)(人に)心に抱く」3.「…を含んでいる、(ばい菌など)の住みかとなる」4.「(場所に)…がある」とありました。
原義としては、"harbor"には、「(船にとっての)避難所」という意味があり、そこから、「犯罪者の隠れ家」となります。
ここでは、2番目の意味があてはまり、「大量殺戮の標的に興味を抱いていた」となるかと思います。(Akim)
