The second attack took place Sunday evening at an open air concert in the city of Ansbach where a suicide bomber, 27-year-old Mohammad Daleel, killed himself and injured 15 people.
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According to reports, the man had tried to get into the festival but was turned away because he did not have a ticket.
Authorities have confirmed that a bomber killed himself and injured 12 other people in an explosion outside of an Ansbach, Germany music festival on Sunday.
On Monday July 18, a 17 year old boy who arrived in Germany from Afghanistan one year ago attacked four people with an ax on a Wuerzburg train.
The incident last Monday was the first in a series of attacks that have shaken Germany over the past week.
De Maiziere told a press conference in Berlin that the investigation on the attack outside a music festival in Ansbach, a city in southern German state of Bavaria, was still in an early stage.
“A video made by the assailant was found on his mobile phone in which he threatened an attack”, Herrmann said, referring to the Ansbach bombing. The DAESH, a terrorist organisation, claimed responsibility for the attack.
USA sources said the bombing did not appear to be a well-planned operation and could well turn out to be the act of another deranged individual.
Joachim Herrmann says officers discovered videos with “Salafist content” on storage devices seized at the 27-year-old Syrian man’s home.
Charlotte Knobloch, the head of the Jewish community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, said in a statement that Germany will strive “to combat those who hate us for our values and want to destroy our freedom and democracy”.
Tobias Plate, a federal interior ministry spokesman, confirmed the man had faced deportation to Bulgaria.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is “mourning with the families of the woman killed in Reutlingen” and her “thoughts are with the families of those injured in Reutlingen and Ansbach”, her deputy spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer said Monday. On July 22, a German teenager shot and killed nine people at a shopping mall in Munich. Authorities have now found a video in which the bomber pledged allegiance to ISIS.
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The European Union is now struggling to manage a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people leaving conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa to escape violence and poverty and seeking asylum in Europe.
