Bavarian officials have presented an anti-terror plan after four attacks in Germany in a week, two of which were claimed by the Islamic State extremist group. Three people suffered serious injuries after he detonated a self-made bomb in his backpack in front of the Eugens Weinstube bar in the centre of Ansbach, in southern Germany.Daleel declared loyalty to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a video filmed prior to his suicide attack on Sunday, July 24. German police say they have deployed officers near the site of the explosion.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel says the fact that two men who came to Germany as refugees carried out attacks claimed by the Islamic State group “mocks the country that took them in”.
It wasn’t clear whether Daleel was in contact with the Islamic State group or where the other person in the chat was, Herrmann said.
Herrmann said that the attacker had large amounts of cash on him and stashed in his room – unusual for an asylum seeker.
“The problem is that we have some kind of ideologies, we have some kind of Islamist ideologies that we never controlled in the last few years, we don’t have much attention on it”, Jahn said, adding that the advancement of extremist teachings within Europe should serve as “one of the greatest reasons we have to stop this kind of appeasement policy in Europe”.
IS earlier claimed the Ansbach attack, publishing a video it said was of Daleel pledging allegiance to the group and vowing that Germany’s people “won’t be able to sleep peacefully anymore”.
Merkel dismissed criticism of that, noting that she will attend a memorial service in Munich on Sunday, and rejected the notion that she might personally feel any guilt about the attacks.
In two other attacks – a mass shooting in Munich that claimed 10 lives, including the attacker’s, and the stabbing of a woman at a restaurant in Reutlingen – the motive is still unclear but Islamic extremism is not suspected.
Special police officers secure a street near the house where a Syrian man lived before the explosion in Ansbach, southern Germany, Monday, July 25, 2016. “There are terrorists among the Muslims who immigrated illegally and their number is rising constantly”.
The fact that three of the terror attacks that shocked Germany last week took place in its largest state of Bavaria is a “nightmare” for locals, and shows a failure of the European Union and Berlin to deal with migration, Thomas Jahn of the CSU party told RT.
But Interior Ministry spokesman Johannes Dimroth said that “for some time” all new arrivals have been registered and checked against security databases.
As for whether people could be treated differently depending on their religion, “as I understand it that simply would be incompatible with our understanding of freedom of religion”, he said.
German train operator Deutsche Bahn said Wednesday that following the attacks it would invest heavily in increased security and hire hundreds of security staff to control trains and train stations across the country.
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Two of the five attackers recently entered Germany from Syria, another was from either Pakistan or Afghanistan, stoking concerns about unprecedented immigration after 1 million migrants arrived a year ago, many fleeing conflict in the region.
