“The man was carrying a long weapon and fired several shots,” said the interior minister of the regional state of Bavaria.
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German police killed a man who opened fire on Thursday, September 5, near the Israeli Consulate General in Munich. “The man was moving with a long weapon and had fired several times” before the police opened fire on him, said Bavarian state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann.
His act “could be able” be linked to the proximity of the Israeli consulate, a documentation centre on Nazism and the anniversary of the hostage-taking of Israeli athletes from that country during the 1972 Olympic Games in the Bavarian capital. The man was spotted, with his gun in his hand, by law enforcement officers who were monitoring sensitive buildings in the area. According to the police, he opened fire, before these officers returned fire and fatally wounded him.
“The identity of the suspect must now be clarified, as well as his motivations.”added the local interior minister. This case comes in a tense context in Germany, which has experienced, like many countries in the world, a resurgence of anti-Semitism since the attack by Hamas against Israel on October 7, which triggered the war in Gaza.
