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On September 5, German police officers exchanged fire with a man close to the Israeli Consulate in Munich, the country’s third largest city.
Police spokesman Andreas Franken said that the officers noticed a man carrying a “long gun” in the Karolinenplatz area, near downtown Munich. There was then an exchange of shots in which the suspect was fatally wounded, but there no was no indication that anyone else was hurt, the spokesman added.
Five officers were at the scene at the time of the shooting, but police deployed to the area in force after the incident. Franken said he had no further details on the suspect.
The man, who was reportedly carrying an old firearm with a repeating mechanism, died at the scene as a result of his wounds.
Bavaria’s top security official, state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, said the suspect had opened fire at police and they returned fire.
Following the deadly shooting, the Police increased their presence in Munich, but said they had no indication of incidents at any other locations or of any other suspects.
The shooting came on the anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics attack, which ended with the death of 11 Israeli team members, a West German police officer and five of the Palestinian attackers. It is unclear however if this was intentional by the suspect.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the consulate in Munich was closed when the shooting occurred for a memorial event to mark the Olympics attack and that no consulate staff were hurt. The nearby Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism also said all of its employees were unharmed.
The shooting came amid the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip which has so far claimed the lives of more than 40,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Israel has also been on high alert in anticipation of an Iranian retaliation to the assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last July.
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