This morning, a person was killed in a shooting near the Nazi Documentation Center, located in the heart of Munich, in the Karolinenplatz area. According to the South German Newspaperciting police sources, the victim is a man who attacked the center and was killed by the officers. There are no other people involved in the attack. The area, which also houses the Israeli Consulate General, has been cordoned off. The man, as Bild writes, has been identified as Emra I., born in Austria in 2006. According to what «Spiegel» and «Standard» write, the terrorist was known to the authorities as an Islamist. The car in which he went to the crime scene had Salzburg license plates and he was armed with a Mauser rifle with a bayonet.
The site of the attack is of particular historical significance and is also sensitive from a security perspective: the Nazi Documentation Center is located between Brienner Strasse and Karolinenplatz and was built on the ruins of the so-called “Brown House”, the former headquarters of the National Socialist party, which opened in 2015. The Israeli Consulate General moved nearby in the same year, into a Free State office building, previously used by the state lottery administration and later adapted to the needs of the consulate.
This decision caused a stir at the time: 70 years after the Holocaust, Israel’s representative office was located in the heart of the former Nazi quarter built around the party headquarters. Both buildings, considered high-risk, require constant special protection provided by the Bavarian police and, for the consulate, also by the Israeli security forces. At the end of May, the Israeli Consulate General was targeted in an attack: during the night, unknown persons threw a fake explosive device over the protective fence. According to the police, it was “a plastic bottle similar to a Molotov cocktail” containing a projectile. Today also marks the anniversary of the Munich Olympic attack: 52 years ago, Palestinian terrorists from “Black September” attacked the Israeli Olympic team in their accommodation. At the end of the crisis, during the failed liberation attempt at the Fuerstenfeldbruck air base, eleven Israelis and one German police officer died.
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