According to the transcript, he replied: “Yes, yes, yes. We have to protect all the world.”

Berlin’s Interior Minister then told the chief that the federal Interior Ministry had offered to supply agents, but the chief declined the offer, saying it wasn’t necessary.

Three police officers guarded the Israeli Consulate on the day of the attack, while hundreds of officers guarded the other six missions.

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