MUNICH, Germany: German police shot useless a person who opened fireplace on them Thursday (Sep 5) in what they handled as a foiled “terrorist assault” on Munich’s Israeli consulate on the anniversary of the 1972 Olympic Video games killings.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated Bavarian police “might have prevented one thing horrible from occurring right now”, declaring in a submit on X that “anti-Semitism and Islamism haven’t any place right here”.
Police recognized the gunman, who died in a hail of police bullets after firing a classic carbine rifle fitted with a bayonet at them, as an 18-year-old Austrian.
Austrian police, who later raided his house, stated the person, who had Bosnian roots, had been investigated final 12 months for potential “terrorist” hyperlinks on suspicion he had turn into “religiously radicalised”.
He had assaulted classmates and proven an internet curiosity in explosives and weapons, they stated, however prosecutors dropped the case in April 2023.
