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Olympic attack in 1972: victims' families do not want to come to the memorial service

2022-08-11T19:03:04.402Z


Olympic attack in 1972: victims' families do not want to come to the memorial service Created: 08/11/2022, 20:52 By: Kai Hartwig A commemoration ceremony is held 50 years after the assassination during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The victims' families stay away from this. Munich – On September 5, 2022, the victims of the 1972 Olympic attack are to be commemorated in an official memoria


Olympic attack in 1972: victims' families do not want to come to the memorial service

Created: 08/11/2022, 20:52

By: Kai Hartwig

A commemoration ceremony is held 50 years after the assassination during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

The victims' families stay away from this.

Munich – On September 5, 2022, the victims of the 1972 Olympic attack are to be commemorated in an official memorial service in Munich.

According to media information, the relatives of the eleven Israeli athletes, coaches and officials who died in the massacre want to boycott the event marking the 50th anniversary of the terrorist attack.

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Olympic attack in Munich 1972: victim families apparently boycott the commemoration of the 50th anniversary

According to a report by

Bild

, Ankie Spitzer and Ilana Romano wrote a letter on behalf of all the victims' families.

The newspaper quoted from the letter addressed to Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder: "50 years of abuse, lies, humiliation and rejection by the German government and especially the Bavarian authorities are more than enough for us." A dispute over compensation payments to the Families of the victims, Spitzer explained in an interview with

Der Spiegel

.

Recently, a possible agreement in the conflict had become apparent.

The families of the victims had been promised further payments.

However, Spitzer also found the new offer from the Federal Government, the Free State of Bavaria and the City of Munich to be an “insult”.

A compensation sum of ten million euros is said to have been in the room.

This should be offset against the payments from 1972 and 2002 amounting to around four and a half million euros.

A memorial in the Olympic Park in Munich commemorates the victims of the 1972 Olympics attack. © Sven Hoppe/dpa

Olympic assassination: Is Israel's President Herzog staying away from the 50th anniversary commemoration?

On September 5, 1972, Palestinian terrorists attacked the Summer Olympics in Munich.

Eleven members of the Israeli team, including Spitzer's husband André, and one policeman died.

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In Munich, numerous events are currently commemorating the dead and injured.

According to information from the

Süddeutsche Zeitung

, officials now fear that Israeli President Izchak Herzog will cancel the central event on September 5th.

"If the families stay away from the memorial service, it will be very difficult for the president to attend," a senior government official familiar with the proceedings told the paper.

(kh with dpa)

Source: merkur

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