A lone gunman was shot and killed this morning by German police when he began shooting outside the Israeli embassy in Munich.
The article below doesn’t mention it, but the German-language press say that the deceased mujahid was a Bosnian. He was born in Austria — there are a lot of Bosnians in Austria, relics of the Austro-Hungarian Empire — so the English-language media are billing him as an “Austrian”. Just like Hitler, don’t you know.
Hellequin GB writes:
According to the Bild newspaper, the attacker is Emra I., who was born in Austria in 2006. The man with Bosnian roots is said to have come to the attention of the police in 2023 for spreading ISIS propaganda and is considered to be part of the Islamist scene.
Excerpts from a report by France24:
German Police Kill Gunman Suspected of Targeting Israeli Consulate in Munich
German police shot and killed a man who opened fire on them with a vintage rifle near the Israeli consulate in Munich Thursday in what they treated as a foiled attack on the diplomatic mission.
Authorities identified the gunman, who was killed in a hail of police bullets, as an 18-year-old Austrian man but did not immediately comment on media reports that he was a known Islamist extremist.
German news site Spiegel Online and Austrian media said that he had been investigated last year for allegedly spreading Islamic State group propaganda, but that the case had been dropped.
While the motive was not yet known, Bavarian state premier Markus Soeder said “there is a terrible suspicion” the case was linked to Thursday’s anniversary of the deadly 1972 attack on Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich by Palestinian militants.
The shootout around 9:00 am (0700 GMT) sparked a mass mobilisation of about 500 police in downtown Munich, where residents and office workers huddled indoors as sirens wailed and a helicopter flew above.
Video footage published by German media showed dramatic scenes in which police commandos in body armour and helmets took cover from gunshots, then unleashed a barrage of bullets.
Police said five police officers fired at the man, who died on the spot with his weapon beside him — a rifle that pictures showed was fitted with a bayonet.
German authorities were treating the incident as a “possible attack on an Israeli institution”, said Bavarian state interior minister Joachim Herrmann.
Herrmann also noted that Thursday marked “the 52nd anniversary of the terrible attack on the Israeli team during the Olympic Games” of 1972.
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The BBC first reported this by saying a man had been shot near the museum of Nazi atrocities. Now who might attack a museum of Nazi atrocities? A Nazi of course! It must have been an AfD fanatic. No mention at all of the Israeli consulate. They really are that sick.