Overview

• Early-morning explosions and a deliberate house fire in Munich’s Lerchenau revealed multiple improvised explosive devices and several burned vehicles.
• The suspected perpetrator, a 57-year-old Starnberg resident, was found fatally injured near Lerchenauer See carrying a rucksack with a suspected device and is believed to have died by suicide.
• Two women, aged 21 and 81, identified as the suspect’s daughter and mother, were hospitalized, and a second body likely to be his 90-year-old father was discovered in the burned house.
• A written, unspecific threat referencing the Oktoberfest prompted hours-long closure and systematic searches by more than 500 officers and numerous bomb-sniffing dogs before the Wiesn reopened around 17:30 with no bomb found.
• An anonymous Indymedia post claiming Antifa responsibility is viewed skeptically by police due to inaccuracies, as forensic and motive investigations continue.