Germany: Munich police shoot lifeless armed Austrian youth close to Israeli consulate | International | EUROtoday

German police shot lifeless a younger man in an trade of gunfire close to the Israeli consulate and Nazi historical past documentation centre within the southern metropolis of Munich on Thursday. A police spokesman confirmed that the person was an 18-year-old Austrian.

The younger man fired an extended weapon, a repeating rifle, police spokesman Andreas Franken mentioned, including that it was an outdated weapon. A video posted on social media confirmed it had a bayonet hooked up to the highest. The suspect exchanged hearth with 5 law enforcement officials and was hit by a number of bullets. Authorities initially mentioned he had been significantly wounded, however later confirmed that he had died on the scene.

Police have declined to offer any additional particulars in regards to the identification and potential motivation of the attacker, however in keeping with the Austrian newspaper Standard and the German The mirror The younger man was recognized to the authorities for his Islamist background. The prosecutor's workplace had investigated him after he was discovered carrying Islamist propaganda, however the case was closed. The younger man lived within the Salzburg space, close to the border with Bavaria, and had travelled to Germany by automobile on Thursday morning, the sources added.

The incident occurred on the anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics assault, wherein a commando of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September murdered 11 Israeli athletes. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann informed the media that an investigation was underway to find out whether or not the incident was associated to the commemoration. “There could be a connection between the two events,” Bavarian President Markus Söder mentioned within the early afternoon.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry mentioned the consulate was closed Thursday to commemorate the Olympics bloodbath and that nobody on the consulate had been injured.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser described the incident as “serious” however mentioned she didn’t need to “speculate on the circumstances and background” of what occurred, she mentioned throughout a press convention in Berlin to debate the struggle in opposition to organised crime. “The protection of Israeli facilities is the highest priority,” she added.

Other German and Austrian media, together with the South German Timeshave launched additional particulars in regards to the attacker, Emra I., who was born in Austria in 2006 and lives in Neumarkt within the Salzburg area. They add that he comes from a household of Bosnian origin and that he got here to the eye of the Austrian authorities final 12 months for his potential radicalisation into Islam. The younger man, they are saying, started to current himself at college as a religious Muslim, had arguments with different pupils and expressed violent fantasies. The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight in opposition to Terrorism (LVT) in Salzburg even searched his residence, they add.

Polarization of the nation

The assault comes at a time of heightened polarisation in Germany and concern over an increase in knife assaults. Last month, an Islamist assault passed off within the western metropolis of Solingen, the place an Afghan asylum seeker allegedly stabbed a number of individuals, killing three.

The assault, which has been claimed by the Islamic State, shocked the nation and prompted a response from the federal government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz within the type of harder immigration and asylum legal guidelines. The stabbings occurred simply days earlier than essential elections within the japanese federal states of Thuringia and Saxony, the place the extremists of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) have been attempting to capitalise on the indignation and uncertainty of many voters to mobilise their voters. In Thuringia they received and in Saxony they managed to turn into the second most voted occasion.

In current months, a number of Islamist terrorist teams, together with the Islamic State and Al Qaeda, have issued requires assaults on Jewish establishments. German safety authorities have lengthy warned that the conflict in Gaza is fuelling Islamist sentiment in Europe and that some people could possibly be motivated to commit severe acts of violence.

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