But in the last seven days, the violence has become even more deadly. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.
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Already steeped in grief and shock, Germans were further rattled by news that a Syrian refugee had killed a 45-year-old Polish woman with a large kebab knife at a snack bar in the southwestern city of Reutlingen on Sunday.
– He was known to police for drug-related and other crimes.
A Syrian man who tried unsuccessfully to claim asylum in Germany pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and vowed the nation’s people “won’t be able to sleep peacefully anymore” in a cell phone video before blowing himself up outside a wine bar, wounding 15 people, authorities said Monday.
The Islamic State-linked Aamaq news agency said the attacker acted in response to the extremist group’s call to target countries of the US -led coalition fighting in Iraq and Syria, The Associated Press reported. “The attack last Monday on the train in Qurzburn, then the rampage.in Munich Friday night, and now again an attack”. The teen, who had German and Iranian nationality, was obsessed with mass killings and spent a year preparing for the shooting spree, police said. 35 people were injured and nine killed in this attack.
Germany saw multiple attacks this weekend, leaving several people injured and one pregnant woman brutally slaughtered by a machete.
“The increase will be significant”, he said. The influx diminished after the European Union and Turkey agreed on a deal aimed at stopping people from reaching the continent by sea. Earlier today, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Ansbach said the attacker’s motive wasn’t clear. “But to some extent, that won’t matter in the public debate, which will be focused on the outcomes”, he said.
Neighbor Mahmood said Daleel told him he had been fingerprinted and registered as an asylum seeker in Bulgaria. But with regional elections coming in the fall, this month’s attacks could give AfD fresh support.
Angela Merkel gives a speech following Munich attack. “The state and its security forces will continue to do everything to protect the security and freedom of everybody in Germany”.
Herrmann said the man, who arrived in Germany two years ago, was refused refugee status but allowed to remain because of the civil war raging in his homeland. In the overwhelming number of cases, reports turn out to be false. It could be “a combination of both”, De Maiziere added. A few people came running towards us who had been near the cafe.
Speaking in Arabic, his face covered with a black scarf, he threatens to make life intolerable and says that “we will blow up your homes”.
Seidel, the mayor, said the man appeared to deliberately avoid security officials who were searching bags.
But the fact that recent migrants were involved in three of the four prominent attacks over the last week was certain to reignite debate about immigration – Bavaria has been a point of entry and a destination for numerous more than 1 million migrants who have sought refuge in Germany since the start of previous year.
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“Yes, this was also for me personally a very bad week, as I think it was for most of the people in Bavaria”.
