In September, ARD will broadcast a four-part documentary on the 1972 Olympic attacks. One of the fleeing Palestinian terrorists also has his say and is allowed to say that he would kill Jews again at any time. He received a fee of $2,000 for this.
In the ARD documentary "Death and Games," a Palestinian terrorist delivers a hate speech from the 1972 Olympics. According to a report by "Focus", he received an exclusive fee for appearing in the four-part series. The relatives of the murdered athletes were stunned and spoke to the magazine about a "media scandal".
According to the report, the fugitive Palestinian terrorist Mohammed Safady, who was involved in the murder of eleven athletes from the Israeli Olympic team in Munich in 1972, received an exclusive fee of 2,000 US dollars for the description of the massacre on ARD. A spokeswoman for ARD confirmed this to the magazine.
In the documentary that aired in September, 69-year-old Safady boasted about the attack on the Israeli team and the killing of eleven athletes and a Bavarian police officer. The act was heroic and for the first time drew the world's attention to the fate of the Palestinian people, Safady said in the documentary. He has no regrets. At any time, according to the former member of the terrorist group Fatah, he would take on a new order to murder Jews.
It was agreed in advance with the broadcasters SWR, rbb and BR involved in the documentation that no fees would be paid to Palestinian kidnappers who were still alive, said the spokeswoman for the Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) broadcaster, Stefanie Tannert, the magazine. However, it later emerged that the producer responsible for the documentary paid an exclusive fee of $2,000, she said.
According to the report, relatives of the murdered Israeli athletes reacted with horror to the news of a murderer's fee. The spokeswoman for the victims' families, Ankie Spitzer, whose husband André was tied up in the helicopter and was allegedly shot by Mohamed Safady, quoted the report as saying: "For me it's a media scandal from ARD that killers pay money for their inhuman statements get paid."
