Overview
- A padded envelope arrived Thursday around 12:15 p.m. at the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in the Altstadt and contained a threatening letter and a live handgun cartridge.
- Munich police secured the evidence, opened a state-protection case, and say investigative reasons prevent disclosing details about the text or any leads.
- The public prosecutor began a preliminary case for threat; senior anti-antisemitism prosecutor Andreas Franck has now taken over the investigation.
- IKG vice president Yehoshua Chmiel said the community receives more than 100 threat letters a year but has never before found live ammunition enclosed.
- Bavaria’s antisemitism commissioner Ludwig Spaenle and Munich officials, including Mayor Dieter Reiter, condemned the act and urged that the perpetrator be found.