A Munich Games terrorist lived in Berlin for 13 years, crossed the wall daily and the Germans knew it

One of the three Palestinians involved in the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics and who survived it, 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 the ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’. The Bavarian Police was informed by an undercover agent from the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) about the whereabouts of the Palestinian, who moved almost daily between the west and east of the German capital –then still divided–, as collected by the material stored in the Munich State Archives. However, at that time the reliability of the BKA informant was not verified and the information may have been misplaced in the city of Bavaria, so it is not clear if it was ever followed up on. This report fuels a theory nurtured for years by the Israelis, according to which the German The surviving terrorists had to roam freely in exchange for avoiding 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 analyze 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, as well as 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 airbase. The surviving terrorists were jailed, but were released shortly after. in a negotiation after the hijacking of an airplane.