Last Monday, a man injured several people on a train near Würzburg, before shooting himself dead. They confirmed that the gunman was a patient and that he had shot himself.
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Relatives, common people and government officials took part at Zabergja’s funeral ceremony at Ropice, a village 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Kosovo’s capital, Pristina. A red-and-black Albanian flag covered his coffin.
The violence followed an attack in the French Riviera by a Tunisian truck driver who plowed his vehicle into a Bastille Day crowd, killing 84 people in Nice.
Segashi’s funeral was also being held Tuesday in Kosovo while Sulaj will be buried in Germany. The man said the attack would be committed in the name of Allah as retaliation for the killing of Muslims.
“Some could get the impression they could get away with anything, because they don’t realize how mildly the state reacts to those breaking the law”, Schuster told the two papers.
The 27-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker set off a backpack laden with explosives and shrapnel Sunday night after being refused entry to a crowded music festival in the Bavarian city of Ansbach.
Bavarian premier Horst Seehofer also called for a harder line over deportations in the wake of Sunday’s attack. Three recent attacks took place in Bavaria.
“We need to do whatever is necessary to protect our citizens”, Seehofer said.
On the video the attacker said he acted in response to the extremist group’s call to target countries of the U.S.-led coalition fighting it in Iraq and Syria.
German media reported that the doctor had been shot dead, but police in Germany said that he was actually critically ill after the shooting at the University Hospital in Steglitz, Berlin. Chancellor Angela Merkel has been a prominent proponent of lenient immigration for refugees and has now become a lightning rod for criticism of her policy in light of the latest suicide bombing. On July 18, a 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker wounded five people with an ax before being killed by police near the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg in an attack that was also claimed by the Islamic State group.
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24 July: A Syrian asylum seeker is arrested in the town of Reutlingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, after allegedly killing a Polish woman with a machete and injuring two other people. Merkel’s aides were quick to point out that three of the four assailants arrived in Germany before the record influx that brought in more than one million refugees and migrants past year. Authorities said he had pledged allegiance to Islamic State’s leader in a video found on his smartphone. According to the investigation, the suicide bomber tried to enter into a festival within the city and after failing to enter, he went to the restaurant and blew himself up.
