The man who drove to the Nazi documentation center in Munich on Thursday and shot at police guards in front of the building, krone.at reported, was an 18-year-old Austrian with Bosnian roots.
Emrah I., born in Salzburg, was already officially known. In the spring of 2023, there was a complaint in Salzburg about membership of a terrorist organization (§278b StGB) because propaganda material of the terrorist militia IS was found on his mobile phone. However, the procedure was discontinued.
Was shot by the police
According to the newspaper “Bild”, I drove to the Nazi Documentation Center early in the morning and shot at the police station in front of the building with an old-style long gun (see picture below).
“He shot specifically at the police officers, and they shot back,” Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said. The gunman was seriously injured and later died. Authorities said no other injuries were reported.
The background is still unclear. It is possible that the crime was a so-called suicide by a police officer (in German: suicide by police officers, note). This refers to a method of suicide with the aim of ending one’s own life by means of fatal shots, usually by a police officer or by other armed people.
According to the Bavarian police, the young man’s motive is unclear at first. According to WDR, Emra I. only recently entered Germany. The broadcaster reports this on its website.
Trade on the anniversary of the Olympic attack
The crime took place on the 52nd anniversary of the September 5, 1972, Olympic attack, when Palestinian terrorists took several Israeli athletes hostage.
All hostages were killed in an amateurish rescue operation by the West German police. The documentation center is also located near the Israeli Consulate General in Munich.
Israeli president calls it ‘terror attack’
Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the act together with German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Both had expressed their “joint condemnation and our abhorrence” over the act “near the Israeli consulate in Munich” during a telephone conversation, Herzog, who spoke of a “terrorist attack,” wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
Israel’s Foreign Ministry said no consulate-general staff were affected by the incident. A memorial service for the 1972 Munich Olympics attack had just taken place at the diplomatic mission, so it was reportedly closed. Consul General Talya Lador-Fresher, a former ambassador to Vienna, said: “This event shows how dangerous the rise of anti-Semitism is.” She stressed: “It is important for the general public to raise its voice against it.”
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Source: Krone
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