According to reports, the man had tried to get into the festival but was turned away because he did not have a ticket. “We have a lot of projects here which help welcome newcomers to Ansbach, which are taken as good examples across Germany”, she told ABC News. German officials have said that such attacks are expected to intensify.
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Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Wuerzburg attack as well as the July 14 rampage in the French Riviera city of Nice, in which a Tunisian man drove a truck into Bastille Day crowds, killing 84 people.
Herrmann told Reuters the recent attacks raised serious questions about Germany’s asylum law and security nationwide.
Fifteen people were injured in the attack Sunday in the Bavarian city of Ansbach.
On Monday, police found on his laptop and mobile devices Islamist videos, in one of which he pledged alliance to the Islamic State (IS) group.
The website for a group of local newspapers, nordbayern.de, reported that none of the 10 injured were in life-threatening condition. The bomber, who was killed, had reportedly pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State terror group.
“Unfortunately, this is a awful new attack which will surely increase people’s anxiety”, said Herrmann. In the video, the man, who was not immediately identified by authorities, said he wanted to commit a “revenge attack” against Germans.
People who knew the terrorist said that he suffered from suicidal tendencies and was a compulsive liar. It has since been reported that the bomber was earlier refused entry into a music festival, where more than 2,000 were gathered.
Roman Fertinger, the deputy police chief in nearby Nueremberg, said it was likely there would have been more casualties if the man had managed to enter the concert venue.
“I think that after this video there’s no doubt that the attack was a terrorist attack with an Islamist background”.
A total of 396,947 asylum applications were submitted in Germany in the first half of 2016, according to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.
The Telegraph reports that the man was due to be deported from Germany.
He noted that in the Munich gun attack there was no indication that the perpetrator, the German-born son of Iranian asylum-seekers, had failed to integrate in German society.
One resident there said he had occasionally drunk coffee with the attacker and that they had discussed religion.
“There were some people who thought they’d been hit, because bricks had fallen from the roof”, he said.
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Munich authorities said Monday at a news conference that a 16-year-old Afghan friend of the Munich attacker may have known of the attack in advance. The hotel where he had been staying was raided early Monday by police.
