BERLIN: Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted on Sunday it was “shameful” that it took five a long time for Berlin to agree payment for the bereaved family members of Israeli victims in the 1972 Munich Olympics assault.
“That it took 50 years to reach this settlement in the final times is indeed shameful,” said Steinmeier, standing subsequent to his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog, collectively with whom the German leader will be attending a commemorations ceremony in Munich on Monday.
A row above the financial supply beforehand created by Berlin to victims’ family members experienced threatened to bitter the ceremony with family members in the beginning organizing a boycott.
But a deal was finally agreed on Wednesday offering 28 million euros in payment, and also for the initial time sees the German state acknowledging its “duty” in failings that led to the carnage.
On September 5, 1972, eight gunmen of the Palestinian militant group Black September stormed into the Israeli team’s flat at the Olympic village, taking pictures dead two and using nine Israelis hostage.
West German police responded with a bungled rescue procedure in which all nine hostages were being killed, along with 5 of the eight hostage-takers and a law enforcement officer.
The Online games were meant to showcase a new Germany 27 years following the Holocaust but as a substitute opened a deep rift with Israel.
In 2012, Israel introduced 45 formal files on the killings, together with specially declassified materials, which lambasted the performance of the German security products and services.
Incorporated in the reports is an formal account from the previous Israeli intelligence head Zvi Zamir who said the German police “did not make even a small energy to help you save human lives”.
Steinmeier mentioned he will deal with some of the German failings during his speech at the ceremony on Monday.
“I will discuss about… some misjudgements, some misbehaviours and some mistakes designed all through the Game titles in Munich,” he said.
Herzog stated the settlement brings “this painful episode to a location of healing”.
“I hope that from now on, we shall go on to try to remember, invoke, and most importantly reaffirm the classes of this tragedy, which include the importance of preventing terror, for upcoming generations.”
“That it took 50 years to reach this settlement in the final times is indeed shameful,” said Steinmeier, standing subsequent to his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog, collectively with whom the German leader will be attending a commemorations ceremony in Munich on Monday.
A row above the financial supply beforehand created by Berlin to victims’ family members experienced threatened to bitter the ceremony with family members in the beginning organizing a boycott.
But a deal was finally agreed on Wednesday offering 28 million euros in payment, and also for the initial time sees the German state acknowledging its “duty” in failings that led to the carnage.
On September 5, 1972, eight gunmen of the Palestinian militant group Black September stormed into the Israeli team’s flat at the Olympic village, taking pictures dead two and using nine Israelis hostage.
West German police responded with a bungled rescue procedure in which all nine hostages were being killed, along with 5 of the eight hostage-takers and a law enforcement officer.
The Online games were meant to showcase a new Germany 27 years following the Holocaust but as a substitute opened a deep rift with Israel.
In 2012, Israel introduced 45 formal files on the killings, together with specially declassified materials, which lambasted the performance of the German security products and services.
Incorporated in the reports is an formal account from the previous Israeli intelligence head Zvi Zamir who said the German police “did not make even a small energy to help you save human lives”.
Steinmeier mentioned he will deal with some of the German failings during his speech at the ceremony on Monday.
“I will discuss about… some misjudgements, some misbehaviours and some mistakes designed all through the Game titles in Munich,” he said.
Herzog stated the settlement brings “this painful episode to a location of healing”.
“I hope that from now on, we shall go on to try to remember, invoke, and most importantly reaffirm the classes of this tragedy, which include the importance of preventing terror, for upcoming generations.”
