The 27-year-old blew himself up at a bar shortly after 10 p.m. (2000 GMT), having been turned away from an open-air music festival in the southern town of Ansbach because he didn’t have a ticket.
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“I believe that after this video we can not doubt that this attack was an Islamic terror attack”, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann announced on Monday.
German Interior Minister Thomas De Maiziere told a press conference that the investigation into the attack outside a music festival in Ansbach, a city in the southern German state of Bavaria, was still in the early stages.
Twelve people were hurt, three of them seriously, in the blast in Ansbach, some 250 miles south of Berlin in the state of Bavaria.
“Had he managed to get into the festival, there would certainly have been more victims”, said Roman Fertinger, deputy head of police in nearby Nuremberg.
Police concluded that the incident, in which three others were injured, was likely a “crime of passion”.German police said shots were fired at a university clinic in Steglitz, a southwestern district of Berlin, at around 1100 GMT on Tuesday. Fifteen people were injured by the explosion, but the only fatality was the bomber.
“You will not live peacefully”, Daleel says in the video, which is titled, “Video of Mohammad Daleel the Islamic State Soldier Who Carried out the Attack in Ansbach”.
In testimony to the Senate armed services committee, U.S. general Philip Breedlove said that the Islamic State terror group is “spreading like a cancer” among refugees. Three of the attacks were carried out by recent immigrants, rekindling concerns about Germany’s ability to cope with the estimated 1 million migrants registered entering the country previous year, an influx that has since dwindled as the flow of newcomers slowed. Armed with a machete, a woman was killed while five others were wounded. The 27-year-old Syrian immigrant to Germany states that the bombing was an attack on the German people for the obstruction of Islam.
“I don’t have anything against foreigners, asylum-seekers, I don’t feel anything more against them”, she said.
The Syrian man was supposed to be deported to Bulgaria, reports Deutsche Welle, citing a spokesman for Germany’s interior ministry.
The attack came almost a week after a 17-year-old refugee attacked people with an axe inside a passenger train near the German city of Würzburg, injuring five people.
The man threatened a “revenge attack” on Germans in the video, they said. “The attack last Monday on the train in Wurzburg, then the rampage.in Munich Friday night, and now again an attack”.
Meanwhile police released more details on Munich mall attacker David Ali Sonboly, saying the 18-year-old was depressed and had spent two months in a psychiatric unit last year.
The bomber, named in the German press as Mohammed Deleel, pledged allegiance to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) before the attack on Sunday night, in which he killed himself and wounded 15 others.
“Germany is an attractive country because it respects the dignity of every human being”, an educational film shown to newcomers said, “and it is supposed to stay that way”.
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Federal authorities say they have more than 400 lines of inquiry relating to fighters or members of Islamist groups who are among the many hundreds of thousands of people offered refuge in the country over recent years – with Mr de Maiziere describing that as a tiny minority.
