On the anniversary of the Olympic massacre in Munich, German police killed a gunman in the Israeli consulate

On Thursday, there was an exchange of fire between German police and an armed Islamist in front of the Israeli consulate in Munich, in which the shooter was ultimately killed.

Police arrested the gunman at around 9 a.m. local time on Thursday, suspecting he was planning an attack on the Israeli consulate. Authorities say he was carrying a long rifle with a fixed bayonet and returned fire as police approached him. Police have not yet identified the gunman, but they say the contents of his phone suggest he was an Islamist.

The incident occurred on the anniversary of the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

According to the authorities, the shooter was an 18-year-old Austrian citizen with Bosnian roots. Apart from the shooter, no one was injured in the shooting.

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“We have to assume that an attack on the Israeli consulate may have been planned early this morning,” Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told reporters at the scene. “It is obvious that if someone parks here within sight of the Israeli consulate … and then starts shooting, that is most likely not a coincidence.”

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Prosecutors and police later confirmed that they believe the attacker had planned a “terrorist attack” on the Israeli consulate.

According to the Munich authorities, five police officers initially arrested the shooter and fatally wounded him. Shortly afterwards, the police sent another 500 officers to the area.

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The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed that none of its employees were injured in the incident. The consulate was closed due to a ceremony marking the 52nd anniversary of the Munich Olympic massacre.

At the 1972 Olympic Games, Palestinian terrorists killed eleven Israeli athletes and held others hostage in the Olympic Village for days.

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog said he had spoken with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He wrote on the social media platform X that “we expressed our joint condemnation and horror” at the shooting.

The Associated Press contributed to this report