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Tuesday 5th of September 1972

52 years ago



Eleven Israelian athletes and coaches and one German police officer are taken hostage and/or shot dead by eight members of Palestinian militant organization Black September Organization in Olympisches Dorf Gebäude 31, Connollystraße 31, München, Bayern, Germany.

The eleven athletes and five terrorists were killed in a failed rescue attempt on Fürstenfeldbruck airfield the next day. The dead athletes were wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg, weightlifter Yossef Romano, weightlifter Ze'ev Friedman, weightlifter David Berger, weightlifting judge Yakov Springer, wrestler Eliezer Halfin, wrestling referee Yossef Gutfreund, shooting coach Kehat Shorr, wrestler Mark Slavin, fencing coach Andre Spitzer, track coach Amitzur Shapira, and West German police officer Anton Fliegerbauer. The dead terrorists were Luttif Afif aka IssaYusuf Nazzal aka TonyAfif Ahmed Hamid aka PaoloKhalid Jawad aka Salah and Ahmed Chic Thaa aka Abu Halla. Terrorists Jamal Al-Gashey had been shot through his right wrist, Mohammed Safady had sustained a flesh wound to his leg and Adnan Al-Gashey had escaped injury completely.


More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre