“I think that after this video there’s no doubt that the attack was a terrorist attack with an Islamist background”. The attacker, identified as an Iranian-German who was born and raised in Germany, had no apparent connection with a terror organisation, said police.
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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.
Police officers secure the area after a bomb attack in Ansbach, Germany. Fifteen were rushed to hospital with serious, though not life-threatening, injuries.
In 2015, Germany received more than 2 million migrants, an increase of 700,000 over the previous year, according to official data. Officials said it was unclear why the deportation wasn’t carried out. “But our constitutional order will not yield”. The Police confirmed that the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber who was the only causality in the incident. They said they would try to “determine if thus-far unknown accomplices or backers were involved in the crime”. There have always been complaints Germany is too slow to deport rejected asylum seekers. After refusal previous year, a third attempt to deport him was looming.
Germany tried to deport him to Bulgaria where his asylum application had been approved, said De Maiziere. Last Monday, an ax assault by an Afghan asylum seeker allegedly inspired by Islamic State wounded two train passengers near Wuerzburg.
“He always said, ‘Isis is not Islam, they don’t represent Islam'”, Alireza Khodadadi told Die Welt. According to a translation provided by Al Alan journalist Jenan Moussa, the video shows the man covered in a scarf saying, ?I declare a martyrdom operation in Ansbach, Bavaria province, in response to killing of Muslims.?
Sunday’s attack was Germany’s fourth bloody incident in a week.
In claiming responsibility for the bombing, the Islamic State said the attack was carried out by one of its “soldiers”.
The bombing followed Friday’s shooting spree at a shopping center in Munich, in which an 18-year-old man gunned down nine people before killing himself.
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.
“He always said that, “No, I’m not with them, I don’t like them” and such stuff”.
“A security man ran to the entrance”. A few people came running towards us who had been near the cafe. “The population must be kept calm”, said Rainer Wendt, head of Germany’s police union.
“It all appeared to be going pretty well for Merkel but the situation has changed dramatically in the 10 days between the Nice attack and Sunday’s suicide bomber in Ansbach”, the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung wrote, referring to attacks in France and Germany claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Monday cautioned Germans against indiscriminately branding all refugees a security threat after a rash of attacks over the last week.
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“It can not be ruled out that it had a connection with global terrorism”, he said.
