Police in Munich exchanged fire with a gunman near the Israeli Consulate in Munich on Thursday, fatally wounding him. Authorities said they believe he was planning to attack the consulate on the anniversary of the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics. No one else was hurt in the shootout shortly after 9 a.m. in an area near the consulate and a museum on the city’s Nazi-era history. Officers had been alerted to a person carrying a gun in the Karolinenplatz area, near downtown Munich, and returned fire when he shot at them. The suspect, who was carrying an old long gun with a bayonet attached to it, died at the scene. Five officers were at the scene at the time the gunfire erupted. Police quickly deployed about 500 officers to the area. Police said the gunman was an 18-year-old from Austria, but investigators were still looking into his motive. They didn’t give further details on the suspect, who left a car near the scene, except to say that he lived in Austria. (…) In neighboring Austria’s Salzburg province, police said the suspected assailant, an Austrian with Bosnian roots, had come to authorities’ attention in February 2023. They said that, following a “dangerous threat” against fellow students coupled with bodily harm, he had also been accused of involvement in a terror organization. There was a suspicion that he had become religiously radicalized, was active online in that context and was interested in explosives and weapons, a police statement said, but prosecutors closed an investigation in April 2023.
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siehe auch: German police kill gunman near Israeli Consulate in Munich 52 years after Munich Olympics attack Police in Munich exchanged fire with a man in an area near a museum on the city’s Nazi-era history and the Israeli Consulate Thursday, leaving the suspect, identified as an 18-year-old Austrian national, fatally wounded. According to police spokesperson Andreas Franken, officers noticed a person carrying a “long gun” in the Karolinenplatz area, near downtown Munich, at around 9 a.m. There was then an exchange of shots in which the suspect was fatally wounded, but there was no indication that anyone else was hurt, Franken said. The man, who was carrying an old make of firearm with a repeating mechanism, died at the scene. Bavaria’s top security official, state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, said the suspect had opened fire at police and they returned fire; Schütze von München hatte in Österreich Waffenverbot. Der Schütze von München war Österreicher und den Behörden dort als mutmaßlicher Islamist bekannt. Für ihn galt ein Waffenverbot, Ermittlungen gegen ihn wurden jedoch 2023 eingestellt. Deutschen Sicherheitsbehörden war er nicht bekannt.Ermittler gehen bei dem Schusswechsel nahe dem israelischen Generalkonsulat in München von einem versuchten Terroranschlag des Getöteten aus. (…) Der 18-Jährige war demnach 2023 wegen Mitgliedschaft in einer terroristischen Vereinigung angezeigt und Ermittlungen durchgeführt worden. Gegen ihn wurde nach Angaben der österreichischen Polizei ein Waffenverbot verhängt, das noch bis Anfang 2028 in Kraft geblieben wäre.Auf einem Handyvideo, das kurz nach der Tat im Internet auftauchte, ist ein junger Mann zu sehen, der mit einer Repetierbüchse mit aufgesetztem Bajonett hantiert, wie man sie im Ersten Weltkrieg verwendet hat.