Last Updated on 05/09/2024 by Arun jain
Outside, there was a shootout between the lone gunman and police officers Israel Consulate in Munich on Thursday on the anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre.
Police in Munich, Germany On Thursday, officers shot and killed a man with a gun in an area near the consulate.
“Police officers saw a person who appeared to have a gun,” Polizei München said on X, adding that the officers “used their service weapons, and the person was hit and injured. There are currently no reports of further injuries.”
Andreas Franken, a police spokesman, later confirmed the suspect, who was carrying a “long gun,” exchanged gunfire with police, during which the suspect was seriously wounded. According to Franken, five officers were at the scene.
A state minister confirmed the suspect’s death.
“We are very grateful [the Munich police]”, said the Israeli consul general in southern Germany, Talya Lador. “This incident shows how dangerous the rise of anti-Semitism is. It is important that the general public speaks out against it.”
Lador noted that the consulate general was closed Thursday to commemorate the 52nd anniversary of the terrorist attack on the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, when associates of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team and kidnapped nine others who were eventually killed. A botched rescue attempt.
At 9:15 local time, a major operation was underway in the Brynnerstrasse and Karolinenplatz area, police said earlier. The Consulate General of Israel in Munich is located near the Karolinenplatz roundabout, next to the Ben-Haim-Forschungzentrum, a research center that studies the history of Jewish music.
The NS-Dokumentationszentrum, a museum of the city’s Nazi-era history, is next door.
Ronen Steinke, journalist with the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitungshared a video taken near the incident in which shots are heard.
No information was available on whether there was a connection to either site, and police warned against spreading “speculation and misinformation”.
Nancy Fesser, Germany’s interior minister, told reporters at a Berlin press conference that “the protection of Jewish and Israeli facilities is of the highest priority” and thanked the Munich police.
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