The Islamic IS group claimed responsibility for the attack.
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During a news conference, Herrman stated: “A provisional translation by an interpreter shows that he expressly announces, in the name of Allah, and testifying his allegiance to (Islamic State leader) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi…an act of revenge against the Germans because they’re getting in the way of Islam”. Police said it was not clear whether Deleel’s original plan was to leave the backpack containing the bomb inside the festival and detonate it by remote control.
“I think that after this video there’s no doubt that the attack was a terrorist attack with an Islamist background”.
Syrian refugeesstand near the site of the attack in Ansbach, Germany with signs saying: “We are Muslims and not terrorists”.
The two attacks came as Germany was already reeling from a shooting rampage in Munich Friday by an 18-year-old who killed nine people before turning the gun on himself.
Stephan Mayer, a deputy from Merkel’s conservative bloc, insisted that it was “completely wrong” to blame the government’s refugee policy for the recent rash of attacks.
Just under half of asylum seekers rejected by Germany in the past two years were allowed to stay on in the country, according to a recent report in German daily Die Welt (in German).
Three of the four brutal incidents were in Bavaria, the southern state which has been a gateway for tens of thousands of refugees under Chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal asylum policy.
He lived in a old hotel that was converted into a refugee shelter.
He was generally a “friendly and happy” person, Mahmood said.
He was facing imminent deportation to Bulgaria, where he was first registered within the European Union as an asylum seeker and which had granted his claim, a German interior ministry spokesman said.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the Syrian man’s removal had been suspended temporarily because of his “psychological instability”.
Welfare officials who dealt with Daleel in Ansbach, a town of 40,000 in Bavaria’s northern Franconia region, said he had been “friendly and nice”.
Germany has been extremely accepting of refugees from the war in Syria and other refugees from Middle East conflicts.
He seemed eager to work, Mahmood said.
A person who knew the bomber has been arrested, as detectives try to determine whether he had received help to make the explosive device.
The explosion went off near a wine bar toward the entrance of the music festival.
Herrmann said his backpack contained screws and nails, an apparent attempt to inflict further damage.
Officials opened the crime scene Monday, revealing beer glasses abandoned at tables, playing cards flecked with blood and a chalk outline of where the bomber’s body was found.
The U.S. military has a facility in Ansbach, and following the attack it increased security there.
Authorities have revealed that the suicide bomber responsible for the explosion in Ansbach, Germany was in the process of being deported from the country prior to the attack.
Last Monday, a man injured several people on a train near Würzburg, before shooting himself dead.
On Sunday, a 21-year-old Syrian asylum seeker killed a woman and injured four others with a deli knife in Reutlingen, in what investigators say was not an act of terrorism.
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He also says, “And to the German youth: your planes that are shelling us don’t distinguish between men, women and even children”.
