18-year-old killed by police after opening fire near Israeli consulate in Munich – National

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18-year-old ******* by police after opening ***** near ******** consulate in Munich – National

Police

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with an armed man near the ******** Consulate and a ***** history museum in Munich on Thursday and shot the assailant *****, authorities said. The ******* occurred on the anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.

No one was hurt in the shootout, which took place shortly after 9 a.m. local time. People in nearby buildings

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as gunfire rang out, police said.

Five officers were already in the Karolinenplatz area, near downtown Munich, when the gunman opened ***** on them. He was armed with a “

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” with a bayonet attached to it, authorities said. The suspect was fatally injured in the shootout and ***** at the scene.

Police said the gunman was an 18-year-old from Austria. Local news outlets reported that the man had recently travelled to Germany and lived in Austria’s Salzburg area, near the border with Bavaria.

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Investigators were still looking into the gunman’s motive. They didn’t give further details on the suspect, but added that he left a car near the scene.

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– Bei dem Tatverdächtigen handelt es sich um einen 18-jährigen Österreicher mit Wohnsitz in Österreich.

– **** von ihm geführte Waffe war ein älteren Karabiner mit angebautem Bajonett.

– In Tatortnähe stellte der 18-Jährige einen Pkw ab.

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— Polizei München (@PolizeiMuenchen)

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The shootout coincided with the 52nd anniversary of the Munich Olympics ********** *******, when ************ militants took 11 ******** Olympic athletes and coaches ******** in the Olympic Village, ******** two. During a botched rescue attempt by ******* authorities, the remaining hostages were *******. The terrorists had wanted to secure the release of a significant number of Palestinians and other prisoners held in *******.

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Authorities speculate that the Thursday’s gunman may have timed his ******* with the anniversary of the massacre.

“We have to assume that an ******* on the ******** Consulate possibly was planned early today,” Bavaria’s top security official, state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, told reporters at the scene on Thursday.

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“It’s obvious that, if someone parks here within sight of the ******** Consulate … then starts *********, it most probably isn’t a coincidence.”

Markus Söder, minister-president of Bavaria, said there may be a “connection” between Thursday’s ******* and the 1972 massacre, “that must be cleared up.”

Police said there was

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connected with the incident. It’s unclear how long the shootout lasted. Police say they deployed an additional 500 officers to the area after the shootout began and

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*******’s Foreign Ministry said the consulate was closed Thursday due to a memorial ceremony for the 1972 ******* and none of its staff was hurt. The nearby 

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, which opened in 2015 and explores the city’s past as the birthplace of the ***** movement, also said all of its employees were unharmed.

******** President Isaac Herzog said he spoke with ******* counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He wrote on the

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that “together we expressed our shared condemnation and horror” at the *********.

I spoke now with President of Germany, my dear friend Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Together we expressed our shared condemnation and horror at the ******* ******* this morning near the ******** consulate in Munich.

On the day our brothers and sisters in Munich were set to stand in…

— יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog)

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The head of Germany’s main ******* organization, Josef Schuster, said “there could have been a catastrophe in Munich today” and thanked police for intervening quickly.

Söder and ******* Interior Minister Nancy Faeser reiterated their strong commitment to protecting ******* and ******** facilities.

The ********* comes at a time of heightened polarization in Germany’s political climate. On Sunday, the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the first far-right party to win a

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 since World War Two.

— With files from The Associated Press and Reuters

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