Friday, July 22, 2016

Deadly Munich shooting perpetrated near 1972 massacre of Israeli Olympians


Inspired by Palestinians.
(JPost) A deadly shooting rampage in Munich, Germany - which police say has left at least nine people dead - was perpetrated near the Munich Olympic stadium where Palestinian militant group Black September took 11 Israeli athletes hostage and eventually killed them during the 1972 Olympic Games.

Gunmen on Friday evening attacked a busy shopping mall, spraying bullets as people fled in horror for safety from what police said was a terrorist attack.

Police said nine people had been killed and the attackers were still at large. They told the public to get off the streets as the city - Germany's third biggest - went into lock down, with transport halted and highways sealed off.

Friday's attack took place a week after a 17-year-old asylum-seeker wounded passengers on a German train in an axe rampage. Bavarian police shot dead the teenager after he wounded four people from Hong Kong on the train and injured a local resident while fleeing.

The incidents in Germany follow an attack in Nice, France, on Bastille Day in which a Tunisian drove a truck into crowds, killing 84. Islamic State also claimed responsibility for that attack.

Friday is also the five-year anniversary of the massacre by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway. Breivik is a hero for far-right extremists in Europe and America.