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ARMED MAN SHOT DEAD IN MUNICH NEAR ISRAELI CONSULATE

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The area close to the Nazi history museum and the Israeli consulate was cordoned
off

An armed man has been shot dead by German police near the Nazi documentation
centre and Israeli consulate in the southern city of Munich.

The man, identified by police as an 18-year-old Austrian national, was hit
during an exchange of fire with officers.

Police said a man had been spotted in the area carrying a long firearm. Five
officers then exchanged fire with their service weapons.

The Israeli consulate was closed at the time for a memorial service marking the
anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics attack by Palestinian militant group
Black September. Eleven Israeli athletes and a policeman were killed during the
hostage ordeal.



Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the attack may have been linked
to the anniversary and prosecutors and police said later they assumed the
consulate had been the target.

Authorities said there were no indications of any other suspects in Thursday's
incident.

Police in Austria said that the 18-year-old from Salzburg who was shot was
investigated last year on suspicion of being radicalised. Austrian news agency
APA reported that propaganda from the Islamic State group had been found on his
mobile phone. Prosecutors in Salzburg did not confirm the report.

Munich police chief Thomas Hampel said the man was armed with a vintage hunting
rifle. German media reported that he was previously known to security services
on suspicion of supporting violent Islamist groups, but police declined to
comment on the reports.

Cordons were put in place in the area around Karolinenplatz and neighbouring
Briennerstrasse, close to the centre of the city.

People in nearby residential or office buildings were urged to stay inside.
Police said they were working to “clarify” the situation and warned against
speculation.

A police helicopter circled over the area and the public were asked not to post
images of the incident on social media.

Munich's documentation centre for the history of National Socialism opened nine
years ago on the site of the former Nazi party's headquarters or "Brown House".




No-one at the consulate was hurt. After the shooting, police decided to raise
security at Munich's main synagogue, according to local reports.

Israeli Consul Talya Lador thanked the police for their response and said the
incident showed "how dangerous the rise of antisemitism is".

Israel's President Isaac Herzog said he had spoken to his German counterpart,
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, adding that they shared condemnation and horror at the
attack.

"On the day our brothers and sisters in Munich were set to stand in remembrance
of our brave athletes murdered by terrorists 52 years ago, a hate-fuelled
terrorist came and once again sought to murder innocent people," he said.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said that protecting Jewish and Israeli
institutions was of the highest priority.

"It's very sad the incident took place in front of the Nazi documentation centre
and Israeli general consulate," she said.


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