10 Years After Munich OEZ Attack: Relatives Still Seek Answers, Trust in Authorities Eroded
On the tenth anniversary of the far-right terrorist attack at the Munich Olympic Shopping Center (OEZ) on July 22, 2016, relatives of the nine victims express ongoing frustration and lack of closure. The perpetrator, 18-year-old German-Iranian David S., killed nine people, mostly young people with migrant backgrounds, before shooting himself. Despite clear racist motives, authorities took over three years to classify the attack as far-right terrorism. The article highlights the grief of families like that of Guiliano Kollmann, a 19-year-old victim, and criticizes the initial dismissal of the attack as an apolitical rampage by a mentally ill individual. Relatives question how one perpetrator could evade 2,500 deployed police officers and why the full truth remains obscured.
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