Machete Attacker at German Police Station Believed to be Islamic Extremist

The incident involving a machete-wielding attacker shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ followed an attack yesterday on the Israeli Consulate in Munich.

The entrance to the police station in Linz am Rhein, Germany, after a machete attack on Sept. 6, 2024. Thomas Frey/DPA via AP

A man armed with a machete who entered a police station in a small town in western Germany in the early hours of Friday and threatened to kill officers is believed to have had an Islamic extremist motive.

The incident happened just a day after police shot dead a man who fired at the Israeli Consulate in Munich, in an attack that authorities believe was linked to yesterday’s anniversary of the 1972 Munich massacre in which 11 members of Israel’s Olympic team were killed.