Munich police kill man who opened fire near Israeli consulate

Antisemitism and Islamism have no place here,' Scholz says after incident also close to Nazi documentation centre

There is no place" in Germany for antisemitism or Islamist extremism, the German chancellor has said after police in Munich shot dead a man carrying a long-barrelled gun" following an exchange of fire near the Israeli consulate.

In a joint statement, the Bavarian state police and prosecutors said they believed the man had been planning a terrorist attack involving the consulate general of the state of Israel".