Munich is back in the news for a shooting outside the Israeli Consulate General. The incident occurred on the anniversary of the tragedy at the 1972 Olympic Games, when a group of Palestinian terrorists kidnapped Israeli athletes, resulting in deaths and international scandal.
On the morning of Thursday, September 5, several shots rang out in front of the Consulate General of Israel in the center of Munich. The police with a special forces unit and snipers are on the scene. The suspect has probably already been shot. The shooting happened on the anniversary of the tragedy at the 1972 Olympics, when Israeli athletes were killed.
As Focus-online reports, the situation in the city is dangerous. According to eyewitnesses, it sounded. at least 10 shots.
Benedict Franke, director general of the Munich Security Conference, also heard the shots. His office is next door.
"Currently, our office is surrounded by the police. Our employees are in lockdown. At exactly 9:10 a.m., there was a sudden loud bang. At least a dozen shots were heard. We don't know more at the moment," he said.
Police say they have increased their presence in the Munich area "due to the current operational situation." However, "there are no signs of any other threatening places or other suspicious people." Police also ask that no images or videos of the operation be posted online.
The police are on the scene along with a special task force with snipers and a mobile task force. A helicopter is also used. Residents reported gunshots and police sirens. Dozens of officers near the building. There were shouts of "Run! Run!".
Around 9:53, the police released the first confirmed data. Accordingly, the cops shot a suspicious person in the Karolinenplatz area. Previously, the suspect was hit.
Süddeutsche Zeitung journalist Ronen Steinke published a short video on X in which gunshots can be heard.
"Shots fired near the Consulate General of Israel in Munich. The NS documentation center is very close by," he writes.
Terrorist attack on the Olympics - 1972
September 5 is the anniversary of the attack on the 1972 Olympics. Then the Israeli team was attacked and eleven athletes were taken hostage. In the end, all eleven of the 14 Israeli participants in the Olympics died.
After the terrorist attack in 1972, Germany agreed to financial compensation for the families of the victims only 50 years later. The Germans launched an investigation into the tragedy, which became part of an agreement with the families.
The study focused on a "detailed reinterpretation of the events" of 1972. A special commission of eight historians conducted an "in-depth study of the period before and after" the attack.
Recent incidents in Germany
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In August, a fatal road accident involving a Ukrainian occurred in the center of Berlin. The man decided to lie down on the roadway, and later he was run over by an Uber taxi service car. The Ukrainian died from his injuries, and the 51-year-old female driver of the car is still in a state of shock.
More than 30 people were injured in August when a Ferris wheel caught fire during the Highfield music festival in Saxony, Germany. The visitors fell into a hellish trap, and two hundred operatives were involved in the rescue operation.
