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suffragette

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2. Shopping center was built on site of 1972 Olympic Games

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Fri Jul 22, 2016, 01:48 PM

Jul 2016

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/22/munich-shooting-police-evacuate-shopping-centre-live

The man is believed to have fled the shopping centre and headed for a nearby underground station. There was no indication as to the motivation of the attack. But Germany is on high alert after a man wielding an axe and knife attacked train passengers near the southern city of Würzburg earlier this week.

The Olympia shopping centre is a two-tiered glass covered mall. It was built on the site of the 1972 Olympic Games. The Munich Olympics were overshadowed by a terrorist attack in which 11 Israeli sportsmen and a German policeman were killed after being taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists.

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SKY NEWS LIVE (shooting in Germany) [View all] yuiyoshida Jul 2016 OP

Just let me put on my psychic thinking cap... linuxman Jul 2016 #1

Shopping center was built on site of 1972 Olympic Games suffragette Jul 2016 #2

Apparent video of gunman starting to open fire at the Mall McDs... jmg257 Jul 2016 #3

Reporting 3 gunmen. nt B2G Jul 2016 #4

I'm unsurprised this is happening in Munich Warpy Jul 2016 #5