around 9:00 a.m. Thursday morning police and Munich were alerted that a suspicious person appeared to be carrying a long gun in an area near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi area Documentation Center upon arrival they exchanged fire with the man who is armed with an old makeup firearm fitted with a mechanism allowing it to be fired repeatedly without manual reloading the perpetrator was stopped by the police and probably died on the spot as things stand at the moment the witnesses have given no indications that there were any other perpetrators so we now assume that the situation in Munich has been cleared up no one else was injured in the incident police have identified the suspect as an 18-year-old Austrian national but have not released his name the motive behind the incident remains unclear but it coincides with the 52nd anniversary of an anti-israeli terrorism attack at the m Olympics in 1972 Palestinian militants shot and abducted members of the Israeli delegation leading to chaotic rescue efforts and the deaths of 11 Israeli team members a West German police officer and five of the asants Thursday's shooting also occurred near a museum examining the rise of the Nazi movement and the Israeli consulate although the consulate was closed at the time the incident occurs at a time of increased anti-Semitic violence and threats against Israeli citizens across Europe stoked by tensions over the war in Gaza the German government said that it would continue making the protection of Jewish and Israeli institutions a top priority