Austrian investigators seize devices at home of man who fired shots near Israel’s Munich consulate yesterday

VIENNA — Investigators seized electronic devices at the home of a young Austrian who fired shots near Israel’s Munich consulate, but found no weapons or Islamic State group propaganda material, authorities say.

German police shot dead the 18-year-old man yesterday when he fired a vintage rifle at them near the diplomatic building.

They say they are treating it as a “terrorist attack,” apparently timed to coincide with the anniversary of the murders of Israeli athletes in a Palestinian terror attack at the 1972 Olympic Games.

Authorities raided the gunman’s home in the Salzburg region, seizing electronic data carriers, Austria’s top security chief Franz Ruf tells a press conference in Vienna.

During the raid, “no weapons or IS propaganda” material was found, Ruf adds.

Despite being subject to a ban on owning and carrying weapons, the man managed to purchase a vintage carbine rifle fitted with a bayonet with around “fifty rounds of ammunition” for 400 euros ($445) the day before the attack, Ruf says.

At a separate press conference in Munich, prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann says investigators are combing through the gunman’s electronic data but have yet to find conclusive evidence of his motive.

But the “working hypothesis” was that “the perpetrator acted out of Islamist or antisemitic motivation,” she tells reporters.