On the evening of 13 February 1970, the building of the Jewish Community of Munich at 27 Reichenbachstra\u00dfe in Munich, which was also a retirement home, was set alight using a petrol mixture.<\/p>\n
Seven Jewish residents, survivors of the Holocaust<\/a>, died as a result of the arson attack. A further 15 people were injured, four of them seriously.<\/p>\n Following a new tip-off from the public, the Munich Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office reopened the investigation in April 2025, after the Federal Public Prosecutor had previously closed the case in 2017.<\/p>\n A witness provided the prosecutor with credible information about the suspect. According to this information, the suspect had been in close contact with one of her relatives in the 1970s. The suspect then died in 2020.<\/p>\n Shortly after this relative\u2019s death, the informant revealed what she knew about the matter.<\/p>\n In order to verify the suspicion, investigators from the Munich Chief Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office and the State Security Division of the Munich Police Headquarters examined the archived files of the Munich I Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office and the Federal Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office, and interviewed witnesses from the suspect\u2019s circle.<\/p>\n According to the findings of the new investigations, the prosecutor said there are compelling grounds for believing that the (deceased) suspect was the perpetrator.<\/p>\n Investigators link deceased suspect to far-right circles<\/p>\nPeople build a humain chain around the synagogue in Munich, to protest against anti-Semitism on October 11, 2019; illustrative (credit: Christof Stache\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n