The German authorities would have allowed the surviving terrorists to roam freely to avoid further attacks
One of the three Palestinians involved in the terrorist attack from the 1972 Munich Olympics and who survived him, would have resided for 13 years in berlin and the authorities were aware of it, although they did not take action against him, as published this Saturday by the ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’.
The Bavarian Police was informed by an undercover agent of the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) on the whereabouts of the Palestinian, who moved almost daily between the west and the east of the German capital – then still divided -, as collected by the material stored in the Archives Munich State.
Nevertheless, at that time the reliability of the BKA informant was not verified and it is possible that the information was misplaced in the city of Bavaria, so it is not clear if it was ever followed up.
This report fuels a theory nurtured for years by the Israelis, according to which the German authorities would have allowed the surviving terrorists to roam freely in exchange for preventing further attacks on German soil.
A spokesman for the Bavarian regional Ministry of the Interior explained this Saturday that, as part of the agreement between the Government and the Israeli survivors, a commission of historians will be created to review these documents.
On September 5, 1972, during the Munich Games, a Palestinian terrorist commando attacked the Israeli team in the Olympic village and took eleven hostages. All of them, in addition to a German policeman and five of the eight attackers, died in the shootings first at the Olympic venue and then in the frustrated rescue attempt at the Fürstenfeldbruck air base.
The surviving terrorists were imprisoned, but shortly after they were released in a negotiation after the hijacking of an airplane.