Shots fired at Israel's consulate: Investigations into tried terrorist assault proceed | EUROtoday

Shots fired at Israel's consulate
Investigations into tried terrorist assault proceed

After the foiled suspected terrorist assault on the Israeli Consulate General in Munich, the authorities are persevering with to analyze the background. Videos from drivers, passers-by and residents are prone to play a job. The Munich police had known as for recordings of the incident to be made accessible to investigators through an add portal.

It has since turn into recognized that the 18-year-old Austrian from Salzburg, who was killed in a shootout with police on Thursday morning, was being investigated on suspicion of being religiously radicalized. The man with Bosnian roots was additionally banned from carrying weapons, which might not have expired till 2028 on the earliest, based on Salzburg police.

The Salzburg public prosecutor's workplace had closed investigations towards him

The then 17-year-old had come to the eye of the authorities after threatening classmates and inflicting bodily hurt. In this context, he was accused of involvement in a terrorist group, it was mentioned. According to info from the Austrian information company APA, propaganda from the terrorist group Islamic State was discovered on his mobile phone. However, the Salzburg public prosecutor's workplace closed the investigation in April 2023, police mentioned. Since then, the 18-year-old has not come to the eye of the police once more.

After the shootout in Munich, his residence within the Salzburg area was additionally searched. Numerous officers went to Neumarkt am Wallersee to safe proof and traces. A Salzburg police spokesman informed the German Press Agency. The 18-year-old had lived in Neumarkt together with his mother and father. The home and the neighboring buildings have been evacuated for security causes, mentioned the police spokesman. In retrospect, nevertheless, it turned out that there was no hazard.

Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism investigates

On the German aspect, the Bavarian Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET) has taken over additional investigations. They assume {that a} deliberate terrorist assault on the consulate was carried out.

“The background to the crime still needs to be clarified,” mentioned Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU). However, “if someone parks here within sight of the Israeli Consulate General, then walks around this Consulate General with a gun and starts shooting,” that’s “certainly or with high probability not a coincidence.”

Söder: Connection with assassination anniversary doable

Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) spoke of a critical suspicion in view of the simultaneous anniversary of the Olympic assault in Munich. “There may be a connection. It still needs to be clarified,” he mentioned close to the crime scene.

In the night, he mentioned on ZDF's “Heute Journal” that one must watch for the outcomes of the investigation to have the ability to choose what was behind the crime. The Bavarian emergency providers had executed an excellent job. “The police took action very courageously, very cautiously, but also very consistently and eliminated the perpetrator and nothing happened.”

In the terrorist assault on the Olympic Games in Munich on September 5, 1972, Palestinian terrorists shot two males and took 9 hostages within the Olympic Village. Around 18 hours later, a rescue try ended with the deaths of the 9 Israeli hostages, a police officer and 5 of the attackers.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) wrote on Platform X on Thursday night: “The rapid reaction of the emergency services in Munich may have prevented something atrocitable from happening today. … I say it very clearly: anti-Semitism and Islamism have no place here.”

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