2024-09-05 12:21:09
The German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser stated that the security of Israeli institutions is of the utmost importance, following the shooting that took place this Wednesday, September 5, in Munich.
The minister called the shooting a “serious incident” and said it was with emergency services, but declined to comment on further details.
This morning, several police officers had to intervene in the center of Munich, near the Document Center for the History of National Socialism and the Consulate General of Israel.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed to the DPA news agency that none of its employees were injured.
“In the area of Karolinenplatz, the police shot at a suspicious person and he was injured,” wrote the Munich police, who sent a helicopter in the operation, on the dispatch service X.
Exchange of shots with the police
The police explained, first, that the officers fired several shots after seeing the person “who appeared to be carrying a weapon.”
The police later confirmed that “the weapon used by the suspect was an old long gun,” that “the suspect was fatally wounded in an exchange of gunfire” and that “there was no evidence of any suspects or injuries.”
Also the Minister of the Interior of the federal state of Bavaria, Joachim Herrmann, confirmed that the suspect died when he exchanged shots with the Police. And it does not rule that the action “could” be properly connected to the proximity of the consulate and the center on Nazism.
The police asked the public to avoid the area of Briennerstrasse and Karolinenplatz, where traffic controls were set up.
On the anniversary of the 1972 Munich attack
The armed man was spotted by security forces patrolling suspicious houses in the area. “Now the identity of the suspect and his motivations must be explained,” the Minister of the Interior emphasized.
The Munich Document Center for the History of National Socialism is located on the site of a former Nazi party headquarters and near the Israeli consulate in this southern German city.
The incident took place against the background of increasing anti-Semitic acts in Germany and other countries, almost a year after the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
And it also coincides with the anniversary of the terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 11 Israelis during the 1972 Olympic Games in this city in southern Germany, the capital of the state of Bavaria.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry told DPA that a memorial service was held today at the consulate to remember the victims of that terrorist attack.
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