The 27- year-old man behind Sunday night’s nail bomb attack in Bavaria warned in a farewell video of looming Islamic State auto bomb attacks on the country.
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A Syrian man blew himself up after failing to enter an outdoor concert in Ansbach, Germany, on Sunday, killing himself and injuring at least 12 people.
The man had entered Germany previous year after passing through Bulgaria, where he was fingerprinted, and had been denied asylum in Germany.
The Syrian suicide bomber who injured 15 people in a Sunday night attack on a music festival in Ansbach, Germany, left behind a video pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said Monday.
Amaq reported that an “insider source” said the attacker “carried out the operation in response to calls to target countries of the coalition that fights Islamic State”.
The explosion in the southern German town of Ansbach late Sunday is found to be an intentional act by a 27-year-old Syrian refugee.
It could be “a combination of both”, De Maiziere added.
Germany has been wracked by debate over refugees since a surge of perhaps as many as 1 million migrants flooded into the country, largely from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
“It could not be ruled out that it had a connection with global terrorism”, he said.
After Sunday night’s ISIS-related suicide bombing in Ansbach, Germany, a number of politicians are insisting that the deportation of rejected asylum-seekers must be expedited to ensure that potentially unsafe individuals leave the country as soon as possible. Those fears had waned as the numbers of new arrivals had slowed this year dramatically, but already the nationalist Alternative for Germany party and others have seized on the attacks as evidence that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s migration policies are flawed.
The carnage followed a Friday night shooting rampage in a Munich shopping mall that killed nine – the act of a lone, disaffected German-Iranian teenager with no connection to Islam.
The perpetrator was an asylum seeker who came to Germany two years ago but his asylum application had been refused by authorities.
Bavaria police said security at three-day Ansbach Open music festival, around 90 miles north of Munich, noticed a young man acting suspiciously in the area at around 9.45pm.
The Ansbach bombing was the fourth violent attack to rock Germany in the past week.
One resident there said he had occasionally drunk coffee with the attacker and they had discussed religion.
“We’re wondering whether he had help building the device”, she said.
“We have to demonstrate that everyone needs to accept the laws of this country”, he said.
Police said the chat appeared to show that the 16-year-old met with the attacker immediately before the shooting started, and knew that he had a pistol.
Mohammad Daleel who carried out the suicide bombing on Sunday night and Afghan teenager Muhammad Riyad who took part in the train attack the week before were not trained in terror camps overseas or sent to Germany by the Islamic State. On the other hand, German police has not labeled all the attacks as jihadi terror – the Reutlingen attack is being considered as a crime of passion while the Munich attack, the deadliest of them all, is being seen as one committed by a mentally ill man, obsessed with mass murders.
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De Maiziere called for Germany’s borders to be better protected without preventing people from coming in by legal and safe means “in reasonable numbers”.
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