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In this May 18, 2015 file picture Bavarian governor Horst Seehofer arrives for a meeting of his Christian Social Union party in Munich, Germany. In the most recent attack, a 27-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker set off a back. It’s unclear where the money came from – but it is “unlikely that it could have been paid for exclusively from what an asylum-seeker in Germany gets in the way of pocket money”.
Teodora Asenova, the journalist who interviewed Mohammed Daleel, described him as “a quiet, restrained, and even shy man” and said “he was not aggressive”.
Daleel told BNT that he hoped to reach Germany, Austria or a Scandinavian country.
All three brutal incidents were in Bavaria, the southern state which has been a portal for scores of thousands of refugees under Chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal asylum policy. She says Germany owes that not just to victims and relatives and other Germans, but also to other refugees. The government, she added, “will do everything humanly possible to ensure security in our free, democratic state of law”.
She said that Germany will “stick to our principles” and give shelter to those who deserve it. More than 1 million came to Germany a year ago, though the influx has since slowed dramatically.
“People in Bavaria and in [the] whole [of] Germany say that, of course, Mrs. Merkel has failed and, historically, the nation because she chose to ignore the German immigration law and she opened the borders of our country past year for two million immigrants from countries outside Europe”, Jahn said, adding that the government is to blame for the “nightmare” terror spate that has descended upon Germany.
Herrmann said a roll of 50-euro ($55) notes was found on the attacker.
Islamic State said that the Syrian refugee who carried out a suicide bombing in Germany this week was a fighter for the extremist group before migrating to Europe and that he launched the attack with help from a second operative.
Daleel died and 15 people were wounded when the bomb exploded in a wine bar Sunday night after he wasn’t allowed entry to a nearby open-air concert because he didn’t have a ticket.
An obituary published late Tuesday in Islamic State’s al-Naba newsletter said Mohammad Daleel fought with the militant group in Iraq and then Syria before being wounded on the battlefield.
Herrmann says that whoever the assailant was chatting to knew he had explosives. “The chat ended immediately before the attack”.
Many bystanders shot footage on their phones as the rampage unfolded.
He had tried to kill himself twice in the past and had spent time in a psychiatric clinic, authorities said.
Authorities say there were never any indications of any possible plans for an attack.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said Thursday that his state – where three of the four attacks took place – would hire 2,000 additional police officers until 2020, improve police equipment and create new offices to fight Muslim extremism and cybercrime.
Conservative lawmakers have called for an increased police presence, better surveillance and background checks of migrants and new strategies to deport criminal asylum seekers more easily.
On July 18, a 17-year-old asylum seeker attacked several tourists on a train in Würzburg with an ax.
“We need to hold mosques more responsible when it comes to prevention among teenagers”, Aydan Ozoguz told the daily Heilbronner Stimme. She had faced criticism from opponents for her muted response to four violent attacks that shook the country over the past 10 days.
The comments from Seehofer, who said following the attacks that “all our predictions have been proven right”, came after Merkel on Thursday defiantly repeated the “we can do this” mantra and vowed not to bend her refugee policy.
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In northern Germany, police on Wednesday raided a mosque in the town of Hildesheim, seen as a meeting point for radical Islamists, Lower Saxony state said in a statement cited by German news agency DPA.
