Israel brands Munich shooting ‘terror attack’ after cops gun down suspect in shoot-out on Olympic massacre anniversary

ISRAEL has dubbed a shooting in Munich a “terror attack” after a gunman targeted cops near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi-era museum.

President Isaac Herzog expressed “horror” at the attack which saw German police shoot dead a “suspicious” person at the scene.

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He wrote on X: “I spoke now with President of Germany, my dear friend Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

“Together we expressed our shared condemnation and horror at the terror attack this morning near the Israeli consulate in Munich.”

The suspect behind Thursday morning’s attack died at the scene after exchanging fire with police.

Officers spotted someone carrying a “long gun” in the Karolinenplatz area in the city centre at around 9am.

The shooting happened on the 52nd anniversary of the Munich Olympic attacks – when Palestinian gunmen killed 11 Israeli athletes in 1972.

“Due to the intervention of the police, the perpetrator was stopped,” state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told press.

A police spokesperson in the Bavarian state capital said the man had a “long-barrelled gun” that proved to be an old rifle.

The gunman’s motivation is not immediately clear, but Herrmann said police would try to clarify whether it had any link to the anniversary.