Almost two weeks after the deadly attack in Solingen, during which three people were stabbed to death by a radicalised Syrian refugee, Germany has once again been shaken by an attack described as an attempted attack. “terrorist”Thursday, September 5. A man identified as an 18-year-old Austrian, armed with a rifle and bayonet, was shot dead by police in central Munich shortly after 9 a.m. He opened fire near the Israeli consulate general and the Nazi documentation center, a site opened in 2015 and dedicated to the local origins of the National Socialist movement.
Munich police said at a news conference that it was ” probably “ from a project of“stroke” against the Israeli Consulate General. The shooter is suspected of having deliberately chosen to strike on the day that commemorates the deadly hostage-taking at the 1972 Munich Olympics. An operation carried out by a Palestinian commando, during which eleven Israeli athletes, a Bavarian policeman and five of the eight kidnappers were killed. The Israeli consulate also closed its doors on Thursday for a memorial ceremony.
“We must assume that an attack on the Israeli consulate was probably planned this morning.”Bavarian state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told reporters, according to statements reported by Agence France-Presse (AFP). “We currently believe that this was a terrorist attack also targeting the Consulate General of the State of Israel.”Munich police said in a statement late in the day.
Propaganda in favor of the Islamic State
Several German media reported during the day that the man, who lived in Salzburg, was known to the security services and had already been identified as “Islamist”, This was later confirmed by the Austrian authorities. Alerted by the propaganda he was spreading in favour of the Islamic State, they opened an investigation last year which was later dropped. But the individual was still subject to a ban on carrying weapons. According to the newspaper The timewould be of Bosnian origin.
The authorities have not yet formally confirmed the hypothesis of an attack on the Israeli consulate, nor its possible anti-Semitic character. Political reactions, however, took the form of messages of support for the Jewish community and denunciation of anti-Semitism. The rapid response of the intervention forces in Munich could have prevented today’s horrors, wrote Chancellor Olaf Scholz on his X account at the end of the day. Anti-Semitism and Islamism have no place here. »
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