MUNICH (AP) — Police in Munich exchanged fire with a gunman near the Israeli Consulate in Munich on Thursday, fatally wounding him. Authorities said he may have been planning to attack the consulate on the anniversary of the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics.
No one else was hurt in the shootout shortly after 9 a.m.. in an an area near the consulate and a museum on the city’s Nazi-era history. Officers had been alerted to a person carrying a “long gun” in the Karolinenplatz area, near downtown Munich, at around 9 a.m. and returned fire when he shot at them. The suspect died at the scene.
Five officers were at the scene at the time the gunfire erupted. Police later deployed to the area in force.
Police said the gunman was an 18-year-old national of neighboring Austria, but investigators were still looking into his motive.
“We have to assume that an attack on the Israeli Consulate possibly was planned early today,” Bavaria’s top…