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| Day 2: After shooting at the Nazi Documentation Center in Munich: Suspect dead | |||
| 2024-09-06 | |||
More and more information about the crime is coming through - and an explosive detail about the murder weapon is now probably seeping through. As already known, the perpetrator shot with a long weapon of an older model, a repeating rifle. As Bild now reports, a man who is said to have reported to the police on Thursday who is said to have sold the weapon to the perpetrator - and only on Wednesday, one day before the crime. According to this, the man recognized the rifle on the eyewitness videos. It is supposed to be a category C weapon. Such models are freely available to arms dealers in Austria, as long as they are registered within six weeks. However, a gun ban had already been pronounced against the suspect. This was obtained in 2023 after a bodily injury. In the event of a registration of the weapon, the purchase and the associated prohibition would therefore have been discovered. Possibly, therefore, the perpetrator put his plans directly into action. Update from 22.04 o'clock: Shortly after 9 a.m. the first shot was fired. A man had positioned himself in front of the Israeli Consulate General in Munich with a long weapon. Shortly afterwards, the police shoot him before the man could put his alleged project into action. A minute-long exchange of fire took place between the police and the perpetrator. The officers met the shooter, who succumbed to his fatal injuries at the scene. No other people were injured in the incident. The 18-year-old had been known to the authorities in Austria for some time: He had a gun ban and a report. The young man was possibly an IS sympathizer, mobile phone data of the perpetrator indicate an Islamist radicalization of the shooter. Update, 8:27 p.m.: According to weapons expert Malte Roschinski, the perpetrator carried a repeating rifle with bayonet type Mauser 98K. This weapon was manufactured during the Wehrmacht between 1934 and 1945. Update, 6:01 p.m.: A spokesman for the Salzburg police told the German Press Agency that officials searched the perpetrator's home for traces and evidence. The 18-year-old lived with his parents. As a precautionary measure, the house and the surrounding buildings were evacuated. In retrospect, according to the police spokesman, it turned out that there was no danger.
Update 6. September, 2:32 p.m.: The 18-year-old is said to have "legally acquired the murder weapon in Austria" the day before the crime, reports LKA man Limmer. During the searches at the place of residence of the perpetrator, no traces of explosives could be found, explains Gabriele Tilmann from the General Prosecutor's Office. Not in his car either, agrees Huber from the Munich police. Shortly afterwards, the press conference in Munich ended. Update 6. September, 2:19 p.m.: Guido Limmer, Vice President of the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (LKA), emphasizes: "We were able to determine very quickly that we are dealing with a single perpetrator." He praises the cooperation with colleagues in Austria. The murder weapon is an "old Swiss military weapon", adds Christian Huber from the police. The perpetrator had plenty of ammunition with him. In total, he probably shot "about nine times". The situation was "very confusing" at the beginning of the exchange of fire (five officers were involved). A police officer and a citizen suffered bang injuries as a result of the gunshots. “We were lucky overall. There was relatively little passenger traffic in the area.” In the TU building, the shooter did not hit any other people. Update 6. September, 2.15 p.m.: Gabriele Tilmann from the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office says: "There are still various investigations to be done." Essentially, the course of crime is part of it. It must also be clarified exactly whether the 18-year-old had co-knowledge: "Was he integrated into a network, in a real one, or a virtual one?" Of particular interest is also the motivation of the crime. "So far, no messages" from the perpetrator have been heard. "That's why we have to stick to the facts." According to the findings of the Austrian police, the man has become radicalized in recent years. The thesis is that the 18-year-old acted "Islamist or anti-Semitic". They are in close contact with colleagues in Austria. Update 6. September, 2:02 p.m.: Christian Huber from the Munich police comments on the state of affairs at a press conference in the police headquarters. The perpetrator had parked his car near the later crime scene around 9 a.m., left his place of residence in Austria before around 6:30 a.m. When leaving the vehicle, the man was seen by a patrol. "But then they lost sight of him." As a result, the perpetrator fired two shots at the facade of the Nazi Documentation Center, then fired once at a building of the Technical University of Munich. He had also penetrated into this one, had injured himself in the process. He then tried to reach the Israeli Consulate General over a fence. "After that, he fired shots at the building." Twice the perpetrator had hit a window. At a park, there was finally a meeting with police officers. He did not comply with the request to put his weapon away. After that, there was a violent exchange of fire. First, the perpetrator shot, the deployed officers returned the fire. The 18-year-old "did not have a decorative weapon, but one with the appropriate penetrating power" with him. The suspect is an Austrian with Bosnian roots, Huber confirms. He was quickly identified by fingerprints. "We now definitely know that it was a single perpetrator." Update 6. September, 1:04 p.m.: According to the Salzburg Public Prosecutor's Office, there was no evidence of radicalization or Islamist propaganda against the Munich shooter despite investigations. As the authority announced on Friday, the 18-year-old Austrian did not move in Islamist circles in the past. According to the prosecutor's office, there was a suspicion that the shooter killed on Thursday had threatened classmates, allegedly resulting in a bodily injury. The suspicion was further investigated that he was interested in instructions on how to build a bomb and could have participated in a terrorist organization in which he portrayed Islamist scenes of violence in an online game. These allegations concerned the period 2021 to 2023. "Ratioratively few contacts": Current findings on the protection9 Investigators therefore searched the young person's place of residence in the Salzburger Land at the time and secured data carriers. However, no relevant material was found on his mobile phone, the judicial authority reported. On his PC there were three videos from a computer game that the then 14-year-old had recorded. They showed scenes with Islamist content. Only on one of these videos could symbols of the Islamist group HTS (see update of 11:08 a.m.) could be seen, it was said. Evidence of the distribution of the videos was not found. Playing such a computer game and reenacting Islamist scenes of violence in this case did not fulfill the fact of participation in a terrorist organization, it was said. Investigations in the vicinity of the suspect also gave no indications that the accused had moved in radical Islamic circles or had lived very religiously. According to the prosecutor's office, the young man lived "with relatively few social contacts". No other objects or data related to the Islamic State or bombs were found. That is why the investigation was discontinued in April 2023.* Update 6. September, 11:29 a.m.: Before the foiled alleged terrorist attack on the Israeli Consulate General in Munich, the Bavarian police had no information about the killed shooter from Austria. Update 6. September, 11:08 a.m.: According to information from the German Press Agency (dpa), security circles assume that the suspect of the foiled attack on the Israeli Consulate General in Munich had a connection to the Islamist group HTS. HTS stands for "Haiat Tahrir al-Sham", a militant Islamist militia. The Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution states that HTS 2017 emerged from the merger of a former Al-Qaeda offshoot and some smaller militant Syrian groups. Unlike Al-Qaeda, which continues to plan attacks in the West, HTS concentrates on Syria and wants to overthrow the local ruler Bashar al-Assad. 18-year-old killed after shooting in Munich: Why authorities investigated him The then 17-year-old had been noticed by the authorities after a threat against classmates and for a bodily injury. In this context, he was accused of participating in a terrorist organization, it was said. According to information from the Austrian news agency APA, propaganda of the terrorist organization Islamic State was found on his mobile phone. However, the Salzburg public prosecutor's office closed the investigation in April 2023, the police reported. Since then, the 18-year-old has not appeared in the police. After the exchange of fire in Munich, his place of residence in the Salzburger Land was also searched. Numerous officials moved to Neumarkt am Wallersee to secure evidence and traces. This was confirmed by a Salzburg police spokesman to the German Press Agency (dpa). The 18-year-old had lived in Neumarkt together with his parents. For safety reasons, the residential building and the neighboring buildings were evacuated, the police spokesman said. In retrospect, however, it turned out that there was no danger. | |||
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Bit of trivia about the Swiss K31. If you take the buttplate off, you'll likely find a piece of paper with name and village of the first man issued the weapon. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-09-06 15:12 |
| #3 The rifle has now been identified as a Karabiner Modell 1931 |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2024-09-06 14:54 |
| #2 LOL a "repeating rifle"? A k98? That's an old-fashioned bolt-action rifle! What, as opposed to a single-shot flintlock or something? The k98 has a 5 round fixed magazine! It feeds with stripper clips! I love how they tried to make a rifle from the late 1800s sound scary. |
| Posted by: Snorong Chirong8493 2024-09-06 10:15 |
| #1 Al-Nusra were the US allies in Syria if anyone is unfamiliar |
| Posted by: Snorong Chirong8493 2024-09-06 10:10 |