German police kills gunman near Nazi era documentation centre, Israeli consulate

German police shot dead a gunman on Thursday who had opened fire at them near central Munich’s Nazi-era documentation centre and the Israeli consulate, the Bavarian interior minister said.

“Police responded with armed force against the perpetrator, who was carrying a rifle and had fired a number of shots,” said state interior minister Joachim Herrmann, adding that the gunman had died of his wounds.

Herrmann said it was “obvious that the crime scene” near the documentation centre and the Israeli diplomatic mission “could provide further clues” about the gunman’s motive.

The minister also pointed out that Thursday marks “the 52nd anniversary of the terrible attack on the Israeli team during the Olympic Games” of 1972 at the hands of a Palestinian militant group.

Munich police wrote on social media platform X that, after the shooting, there were “no indications of any other suspects” and that no one else was wounded.