On September 5, 2024, an Austrian man, armed with a gun was seen in the area of the Israeli Consulate General and the Nazi Documentation Center in Munich, Germany. When the man had seen police officers, he opened fire at them. At the police operation that followed, the man was fatally shot by police officers.
| September 2024 Munich shooting | |
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| Location | near the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Munich, Germany |
| Coordinates | 48°08′43″N 11°34′03″E / 48.14528°N 11.56750°E |
| Date | September 5, 2024 ~9 a.m. (CEST) |
| Target | Police officers |
Attack type | Shooting, shootout |
| Weapon | K31,[1] an old carbine rifle with bayonet |
| Deaths | 1 (the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 0 |
| Perpetrator | Emrah Ibrahimović |
The incident occurred on the anniversary of the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics. LKA Bavaria and State police are investigating the background. The 18-year old Gunman was known to Austrian authorities as suspected Islamist.[2]
Background
edit The crime scene is historically special and also sensitive in terms of security: the NS Documentation Center is located on Brienner Straße and Karolinenplatz. It was built on the ruins of the so-called "Brown House", the former party headquarters of the Nazis. It opened in 2015.
The Israeli Consulate General is right next door. It also moved there in 2015 to an office building that belongs to the State of Bavaria. This move, largely driven by the Bavarian government was a histoical marking point: 70 years after the Holocaust, Israel's representative office settled in the middle of the Nazis' old party district, which they had built around their party headquarters.[3]
Incident
editAccording to police information, Emrah I. travelled by car from Salzburg to Munich on the morning of September 5, 2024.[4]
Shortly after 9 a.m. local time, locals saw a young man aged between 20 and 30 armed with a K31,[1] an older-type repeating rifle with attached bayonet walking down the street in the area of the Israeli Consulate General.[5] According to media reports, this man was also seen with the firearm near the Technical University of Munich before.[6] When the perpetrator saw five patrol officers, he opened fire and fired several shots at the officers. In the following shoot-out, the five officers fatally shot the man.[7][8] A journalist recorded a video from his home office close by,[9] where volleys from a semi-automatic weapon can be heard, which are probably from a police HK MP5 or FN SCAR-L. The perpetrator was stopped and seriously injured.[10]
The alarmed police cordoned off the area and the tactical police unit SEK from Munich was on duty.
On September 5, 1972, the Munich massacre happened: Palestinian terrorists shot two men and took nine hostages in the Olympic Village. Around 18 hours later, a rescue attempt ended with the deaths of the nine Israeli hostages, a police officer and five of the attackers. The terrorists wanted to free more than 200 prisoners in Israel as well as Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof of German RAF. On September 5, 2024 there was a memorial service for the Munich massacre at the Israeli consulate, so it was closed at this day.[11]
At around 11 a.m. local time, the Bavarian Minister of the Interior Joachim Herrmann (CSU) announced that the perpetrator had been killed.[3][11]
Perpetrator
editThe perpetrator was an 18-year-old Austrian male named Emrah Ibrahimović.[12] He was born 2006 and lived in Salzburger Land. His parents were originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the media, he showed signs of Islamist radicalization and was known by the Austrian authorities.[4][13]
Ibrahimović is said to have appeared at school as a strict Muslim and to have gotten into arguments with other students on several occasions. He is also said to have expressed violent fantasies. The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Combating Terrorism (LVT) in Salzburg is said to have carried out a search of Ibrahimovic's house. Material is said to have been discovered that suggests jihadist sentiments; he was supporter of the Syrian terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra. Ibrahimović is also reported to have had an official ban on weapons. He was not previously known to the security authorities in Germany as a radical Islamist.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Giwerzew, Nathan; Baumann, Meret (2024-09-06). "Versuchter Terroranschlag in München: Warum war Emrah I. den deutschen Behörden unbekannt?". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ Guder, Anja (5 September 2024). "German police kill suspected Islamist gunman in shootout near Israeli consulate". Reuters. Archived from the original on 6 September 2024. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
- ^ a b "A Munich, la police tire sur une personne suspecte près du consulat général d'Israël". Le Monde (in French). 2024-09-05. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
- ^ a b c Flade, Florian (2024-09-05). "Das ist über den Schützen von München bekannt". tagesschau (in German). Retrieved 2024-09-05.
- ^ Brady, Kate (2024-09-05). "German police fatally shoot gunman near Israeli Consulate in Munich". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
- ^ Kirby, Paul (2024-09-05). "Suspect shot in Munich outside Nazi documentation centre". BBC. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
- ^ tagesschau.de. "Großer Polizeieinsatz in Münchner Innenstadt bei NS-Dokuzentrum". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-09-05.
- ^ "German police kill gunman near Israeli Consulate in Munich 52 years after Munich Olympics attack". CBS News. 2024-09-05. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
- ^ Connolly, Kate (2024-09-05). "Munich police shoot and kill suspect who opened fire on officers near Israeli consulate". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
- ^ Nyheter, S. V. T. (2024-09-05). "En person ihjälskjuten av polis i München". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2024-09-05.
- ^ a b "Polizeieinsatz in München: Schüsse vor NS-Dokumentationszentrum in Innenstadt". Der Spiegel (in German). 2024-09-05. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
- ^ "Armed shooter near Munich consulate on Thursday identified as Emrah Ibrahimovic from Austria". The Jerusalem Post. 2024-09-06. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
- ^ "Schüsse in München: Schütze plante möglicherweise Anschlag auf Konsulat". tagesschau (in German). 2024-09-05. Retrieved 2024-09-05.