Munich, Germany, Sept 26 (AFP/APP): That evening on September 26, 1980, Robert Platzer, then 12, was having a great night out. He had been on fairground rides, eaten bags of sweets and even bought a helium balloon — all that a child dreams of at the Munich Oktoberfest. He was just at the exit of the popular beer festival with his parents and four siblings when he saw a man with his arms in the rubbish bin, towards which his family was headed. But at that moment, the bomb went off. “There was a huge flame, I was thrown back several metres,” Robert Hoeckmayr, who has since taken his wife’s family name, told AFP in an interview. A bomb in the trashcan had exploded just steps away from the merry-go-round and the beer tents. Thirteen people — including the bomber Gundolf Koehler — were killed and more than 200 injured. Four decades on, prosecutors in July finally classed it a political attack — the deadliest far-right assault in post-war Germany. Investigators initially assumed the 21-year-old Koehler was a depressed geology student, who had acted because of relationship problems and exam stress, downplaying his known links to the extremist scene. But … Continue reading 40 years after Oktoberfest attack, survivor’s wounds still healing