Investigators found that Daleel, who injured 15 people in the blast, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
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Mohammad D. was also known to police after repeated run-ins for drug offences and other crimes.
Not all of the attacks grabbed major headlines in the USA, so we are providing a brief breakdown of Germany’s tragic week.
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. We need a “farewell culture”, Schuster said, referring to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s announcement previous year that Germany would foster a “welcoming culture” for migrants. Merkel’s govt said it was wrong to blame the liberal refugee policy for recent assaults ■ But Stephan Mayer, a deputy from Merkel’s conservative bloc, said 1.1million migrants and refugees Germany let in previous year represented a “big challenge” for the police GERMANY RATTLEDOVER 660: People killed in attacks in Europe and Americas since Jan 2015.
Munich authorities said Monday at a news conference that a 16-year-old Afghan friend of the Munich attacker may have known of the attack in advance.
Mahmood said he had spoken several times with Daleel and had never had any problems with him.
He was generally a “friendly and happy” person, Mahmood said.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere yesterday cautioned Germans against indiscriminately branding all refugees a security threat after a rash of attacks over the last week.
Asylum-seekers are routinely deported to the first country where they registered if they don’t follow proper procedures, even if they’re considered to have a legitimate asylum claim.
The bomber had been facing deportation to Bulgaria, his first point of entry into the European Union, after his application for asylum in Germany had twice been rejected.
Authorities on Monday morning raided the asylum shelter where he lived in the suburbs of Ansbach and searched his room. He said that he totally understands the concerns of the citizens. He asked Mahmood for advice on how to get a job at McDonald’s.
BBC reported that more bomb- making material was found in the bomber’s flat, including petrol, hydrogen peroxide and batteries.
Still, he said he had ordered an increased security presence at airports, train stations and elsewhere in the wake of the attacks. Roman Fertinger, the deputy police chief in nearby Nuremberg, said it was likely there would have been more casualties if the man had managed to enter the concert venue.
The second attack on Sunday happened outside of a music festival in Ansbach.
Herrmann said the attacker’s backpack contained screws and nails in an apparent bid to inflict widespread damage. There are three military installations in the Ansbach area, according to the garrison’s website.
“A video made by the assailant was found on his mobile phone in which he threatened an attack”, Bavarian state interior minister Joachim Herrmann told reporters.
Speaking at a press conference Monday, Hermann acknowledged it had been a “very bad week” in Bavaria.
“Yes, this was also for me personally a very awful week, as I think it was for most of the people in Bavaria”.
“The motives of the. attacks differ widely; they were not linked”.
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The fourth, a teenager who went on a shooting rampage in Munich on Friday killing nine before turning the gun on himself, was born and raised in Germany, the son of Iranian asylum seekers who arrived in the 1990s.
