1970 zündete er ein Seniorenheim an – Tatverdächtiger für antisemitischen Anschlag wurde ermittelt
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Investigators strengthen suspicion over 1970 attackA public tip revived the case in 2025; seven people died in the Munich fire.
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- On 13 February 1970, the building of Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Munich’s Reichenbachstraße was set ablaze with a petrol mixture, killing seven Jewish residents.
- A tip from the public led Munich’s General Prosecutor’s Office to examine the case again in April 2025, after proceedings had ended in 2017.
- The authorities say the new investigation provides substantial grounds for suspecting a German national who was 25 at the time and died in 2020.
- Because a deceased suspect cannot be indicted and it remained unresolved whether he acted alone or with others, the case was closed while the posthumous presumption of innocence was maintained.
"that 'the Jews had everything' and he 'wanted to set them on fire'."— Statement by the suspect, as reported in the joint press release by the General Public Prosecutor's Office Munich and the Munich Police Department regarding the 1970 arson attack.
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