Bavarian state premier and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehofer (C), Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (2nd R) and Bavarian Justice Minister Winfried Bausback (R) leave after a news conference in Sankt Quirin, Germany, July 26, 2016.
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The account confirms the powerful draw of Islamic State’s online propaganda in encouraging would-be attackers to launch operations in the group’s name and the difficulties European authorities face in monitoring their communications and movements.
Meanwhile Islamic State’s (IS) online magazine has claimed that Daleel spent months planning the attack. The weekly magazine claimed D.
Despite the fact that not all the cases were terror-related, they have caused concerns about the government’s migration policy that saw more than 1 million people enter Germany previous year.
Furthermore, although the attacks underlined the growing risk posed by individuals who have entered the country as refugees, retaliatory violence from right-wing extremists against refugee or immigrant targets in the coming weeks is highly likely.
“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”.
Merkel called for a better “early warning system” against signs of radicalization, faster progress on plans to create a center to help crack encrypted messages and better global intelligence cooperation, among other measures. But she said it’s too early to say in detail what more may be required beyond the tightening of asylum and security laws already undertaken in recent months.
The IS group earlier claimed the Ansbach attack, publishing a video it said of Daleel pledging allegiance to the group and vowing that Germany’s people “won’t be able to sleep peacefully anymore”.
Police are trying to find out whether the attacker had help making the bomb and whether it exploded prematurely, which could suggest he wanted to kill as many people as possible. Three of the four attacks were committed by asylum seekers. Germany owes that not just to victims and relatives and other Germans, but also to other refugees, she said.
“That two men who came to us as refugees are responsible for the acts in Wuerzburg and Ansbach mocks the country that took them in”, Mrs Merkel said.
The chancellor cut short her vacation this week to hold her annual summer news conference. She had faced criticism from opponents for her muted response to the four attacks.
“I have the feeling that I am acting responsibly and correctly, and no other feelings”, she said.
Officials in Germany’s Bavaria state pledged Thursday to hire hundreds of extra police officers and urged tougher background checks on asylum seekers as they presented an anti-terror plan after four deadly attacks in Germany in a week.
State Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, Bavaria’s top security official, says a roll of 50-euro ($55) notes was found on the attacker in Ansbach.
He also called for tougher background checks on asylum-seekers and new strategies to deport criminal asylum-seekers more easily.
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“We need to control our borders, that is the most important thing at the moment, and we need to send.the risky people with Islamist ideology back to the countries outside Europe and [the] European Union”, the politician said.
