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topicnews · September 6, 2024

Further questions remain – videos in focus

Further questions remain – videos in focus

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From: Lukas Schierlinger

Was the perpetrator (18) tricked into traveling to Munich with a weapon? The police are asking for help in their investigations into the thwarted attack on the Jewish Consulate General.

Munich – Videos of drivers, passers-by and residents are now also coming into focus. The day after the foiled suspected terrorist attack on the Jewish Consulate General in Munich, investigations into the background are continuing. The Munich police are asking people to make relevant recordings available to investigators via an upload portal.

Some information is now known about the 18-year-old Austrian from Salzburg who was killed in a shootout with police on Thursday morning. He was investigated in his home country on suspicion that he may have become religiously radicalized. The man with Bosnian roots was also banned from carrying weapons. It would not have expired until 2028 at the earliest, according to the Salzburg police.

18-year-old killed after shooting in Munich: Why authorities are investigating him

The then 17-year-old had come to the attention of the authorities after threatening fellow students and causing bodily harm. In this connection, he was accused of participating in a terrorist organization, it was reported. According to information from the Austrian news agency APA Propaganda from the terrorist organization Islamic State was found on his cell phone. However, the Salzburg public prosecutor’s office closed the investigation in April 2023, police reported. Since then, the 18-year-old has not come to the attention of the police.

After the shooting in Munich, his home in Salzburg was also searched. Numerous officers went to Neumarkt am Wallersee to secure evidence and traces. A Salzburg police spokesman confirmed this to the German Press Agency (dpa)The 18-year-old had lived in Neumarkt with his parents. The house and the neighboring buildings were evacuated for safety reasons, said the police spokesman. In retrospect, however, it turned out that there was no danger.

Terrorist attack in Munich foiled: According to Herrmann, crime scene “most likely not a coincidence”

On the German side, the Bavarian Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET) is conducting further investigations. Those responsible assume that a planned terrorist attack on the consulate was planned. “The background to the crime still needs to be clarified,” said Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU). However, “if someone parks here within sight of the Israeli Consulate General, then walks around this Consulate General with a gun and starts shooting,” that is “certainly or with high probability not a coincidence.”

Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) also spoke of a serious suspicion in view of the simultaneous anniversary of the Olympic attack in Munich. “There may be a connection. It still needs to be clarified,” he said near the crime scene.

The Munich Olympic attack took place 52 years ago

Thursday was the anniversary of the Munich Olympic participant. In the terrorist attack during the Olympic Games on September 5, 1972, 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 hostages, a police officer and five of the attackers. (lks/dpa)

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