As of: March 14, 2024, 7:17 p.m
By: Leoni Billina
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The most famous slogan of the terrorist organization Hamas is considered a banned license plate in Germany.
Nevertheless, it is clearly visible on a Munich house - in a particularly sensitive place.
Munich - In the middle of the Munich Olympic Village, a slogan used by the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas is currently emblazoned on a residential building.
Where a Palestinian terrorist squad attacked the Israeli team during the 1972 Olympic Games and murdered a total of eleven athletes.
The Munich Public Prosecutor's Office therefore initiated an investigation through the Central Anti-Semitism Commissioner of the Bavarian Justice, Andreas Franck, the prosecution described on Thursday (March 14).
An armed police officer in a tracksuit on duty in the Olympic Village in 1972. © Horst Ossinger/dpa/archive image
The characters in the Munich Olympic Village are mounted on the exact street where the attack took place
The yellow characters on a blue background are mounted on the facade of an apartment on the very street where the attack took place.
The public prosecutor's office explained that proceedings had already been initiated on March 8th based on a complaint on suspicion of using the symbols of terrorist organizations.
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The Bavarian judiciary is prosecuting the use of the terrorist organization Hamas' slogan, “From the River to the sea Palestine will be free,” as a criminal offense, similar to the public use of the swastika.
The investigation has so far been directed against one or more unknown people, the spokesman added.
Attack in the Munich Olympic Village in 1972
During the Summer Olympics in Munich, a Palestinian terrorist squad from the Black September organization carried out an attack on the Israeli team.
During the attack on their accommodation in the Olympic Village on September 5, 1972, the assassins killed two athletes and took nine other athletes hostage.
The following night, an attempt to liberate the Fürstenfeldbruck air base by the German authorities failed: all Israeli athletes and a German police officer were murdered by the terrorists.
Five of the eight attackers also died.
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