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Police shot a ‘suspicious person’ believed to be carrying a firearm outside an Israeli consulate closed for a commemoration of the Munich massacre.
The unidentified person was injured, according to police. Israel’s embassy described them as ‘neutralised’.
Video footage filmed from a nearby window shows people running away as numerous shots are fired.
Israel’s consulate was closed for a ceremony marking the murder of two Israeli Olympic athletes in the city by Palestinian militants in 1972.
Munich police said: ‘Officers spotted a person who appeared to be carrying a firearm.
‘The emergency services used their service weapons and the person was hit and injured. There are currently no reports of further injuries.’
Police have urged people to avoid the area, also near a museum documenting Germany’s Nazi dictatorship, in the city’s Maxvorstadt neighbourhood.
‘A major operation is currently underway in the area of Briennerstrasse and Karolinenplatz’, police said on X.
‘We have numerous emergency personnel on site. Further information will follow on this channel.
‘Many emergency services are on their way to the site of operations in the area of the NS Documentation Center.
‘To ensure that they can work without hindrance, we ask that you avoid this area as much as possible.
‘The helicopter in the air is on the move in connection with the operation at the NS Documentation Center.
‘With this tool we get a better overview of the current situation from the air.’
Munich was the site of a terrorist attack on Israel’s Olympic team during the 1972 Olympics, the first time the games were hosted in Germany since 1936 under the Nazis.
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