“I am proud. Proud of what I have done. Should it come up again – I am ready.”
With this inhuman statement, the Palestinian terrorist Mohammed Safady (69) boasted in the German broadcaster ARD’s documentary “Death and Games”, which was broadcast in September.
It does not describe a heroic deed, but the brutal attack on the Israeli Olympic team during the 1972 Games in Munich. Back then, the terrorists killed eleven Israelis and a Bavarian policeman.
Now it has come out: For his interview, the Palestinian received 2000 US dollars from a production company that filmed on behalf of ARD. This was first reported by the news magazine “Focus”. The fee paid to Safady caused horror among the relatives of the victims!
Ilana Romano lost her husband, the weightlifter Yossef Romano († 32), 50 years ago. The horrified widow told the newspaper BILD: “I think that anyone who gives money to terrorists is complicit in a crime.” Romano was the first of the hostages to die; he had bravely stood in the way of the attackers and was riddled with bullets from a Kalashnikov – presumably Safady pulled the trigger.
In the run-up to the filming, the participating broadcasters SWR, rbb and BR had agreed not to pay any fee to Palestinian terrorists. But: The executive producer has meanwhile admitted to having paid 2000 dollars as an exclusive fee to the terrorist. An ARD spokeswoman told BILD yesterday: “Our editorial offices were not informed about this by the producer”. It was known that “expenses customary in the media business, especially for security precautions in the context of the interview with one of the assassins” had been paid by the producers, according to the ARD spokeswoman.
Dieter Graumann (72), former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told BILD: “It is immoral, undignified and distasteful when a terrorist murderer is financed with money, from public funds to boot.” Ilana Romano said: “The terrorists who murdered our husbands deserve prison. They don’t deserve money.”
Mohammed Safady was never punished for his crimes.