Almost two weeks after the deadly attack in Solingen, in which three people were stabbed to death by a radicalised Syrian refugee, Germany has been shaken again 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 with a bayonet, was shot dead by police in downtown Munich shortly after 9 a.m. He had opened fire near the Israeli Consulate General and the Nazi Documentation Center, a place opened in 2015 and dedicated to the local origins of the National Socialist movement.
Munich police said at a press conference that it was ” probably “ of a project of“attack” against the Israeli Consulate General. She suspects the shooter deliberately chose to act on the day commemorating the deadly hostage-taking at the 1972 Munich Olympics. An operation carried out by a Palestinian commando, during which eleven Israeli athletes, a Bavarian police officer and five of the eight hostage-takers died. The Israeli consulate had closed its doors on Thursday for a memorial ceremony.
“We have to assume that an attack on the Israeli consulate was probably planned this morning”Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told reporters, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). “We currently assume that this is a terrorist attack that also targeted the Consulate General of the State of Israel.”Munich police said in a statement late in the day.
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Propaganda for the Islamic State
Several German media outlets reported during the day that the man, who lived in Salzburg, was known to the security services and had already been identified as “Islamist”, which was later confirmed by the Austrian authorities. Alerted by the propaganda he was spreading in favor of the Islamic State organization, they opened an investigation last year, which was then abandoned. But the individual was still subject to a ban on carrying weapons. According to the newspaper The timehe would be of Bosnian origin.
The authorities have not yet formally confirmed the hypothesis of an attack targeting the Israeli consulate, nor its possible anti-Semitic nature. Political reactions have, however, taken the form of messages of support for the Jewish community and denunciation of anti-Semitism. The rapid reaction of the intervention forces in Munich may 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 among us.”
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