Gunman killed near Munich Israeli consulate on 1972 Massacre anniversary
Thursday was the 52nd anniversary of the 1972 Munich Massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by a Palestinian terror group.
Police shot and killed a suspected terrorist near the Israeli consulate on Thursday.
A shootout ensued when police officers spotted the suspect, an 18-year-old Austrian citizen who was carrying a carbine with an attached bayonet, next to the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, which is close to the Israeli consulate, the police said.
The gunman was shot and later died from his wounds.
An investigation into the incident and the gunman’s motive was ongoing, Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder said, adding that police suspect it was connected to Thursday’s 52nd anniversary of the Munich massacre at the Olympics in 1972.Shots fired outside Israeli consulate in Munich #München, Germany https://t.co/qetzHEz8AP pic.twitter.com/WQTqjif0m6
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Israeli Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor said he had been apprised of the situation by Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, who said the gunman had a radical Islamist background, he said.
“The events in Munich show that Islamists are a threat to us all,” he wrote in a post on social media. “They interpret a misunderstood sense of tolerance as weakness. We must now do everything we can to effectively combat Islamism. The hate preachers in the background must feel that we are watching them. Those who incite 18-year-olds to commit terrorism must not go unpunished.”Consulate was closed for a ceremony to commemorate the 1972 Munich Massacre
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said the consulate had been closed for a ceremony to commemorate the 52nd anniversary of the Munich massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. No workers at the Israeli consulate had been harmed in the incident, it said.
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