Also Sunday, a 27-year-old Syrian who was denied asylum detonated a backpack of explosives and shrapnel at the entrance to an outdoor music festival in Ansbach, killing himself and wounding 15 people.
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Police said the shooter was a 72-year-old German man who had been treated Monday at a university hospital in the well-heeled southwestern Steglitz neighborhood. The man said the attack would be committed in the name of Allah as retaliation for the killing of Muslims.
Police said the Syrian man meant to target the open-air festival attended by 2,500 people but was turned away as he did not have a ticket, and detonated the device outside a nearby cafe.
Police evacuates people from the shopping mall in Munich on July 22, 2016 following a shootings earlier. That incident was not believed to be jihadist-inspired.
The attack on Sunday, outside a music festival in Ansbach, a town of 40,000 people southwest of Nuremberg that has a US Army base, was the fourth act of violence by men of Middle Eastern or Asian origin against German civilians in a week.
A detailed analysis of the content of the videos was ongoing, Mr Hermann said.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann says the video indicates some of the motivations of the bomber. Four brutal assaults in Ger-many’s south, three of which were carried out by asylum seekers, have rattled Germans and revived a backlash against Merkel’s decision past year to open the borders to those fleeing war and persecution.
They also highlight a mounting refugee crisis in Germany and other European countries by heightening social insecurity, not to mention increasing pressures on public services and jobs market, which were the major argument for Britons to vote in June to quit the European Union.
Four of the 15 victims were seriously injured in the attack, Ansbach Mayor Carla Seidel said at a news conference Monday.
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.
Bavarian Premier Horst Seehofer has demanded a guaranteed disconnection of asylum seekers with the IS group for a tougher control over refugees.
Police said the gunman was a mentally troubled individual who was obsessed with mass shootings and may have planned the attack for a year.
Police have been searching the converted hotel that is now a shelter for asylum seekers.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziè re said he was ordered to be deported to Bulgaria already in late 2014 because the man had been registered there on his way to Germany.
“Naturally people are concerned and are questioning whether they should change their routines”, de Maiziere said.
“The doctor is in intensive care”, the spokeswoman said, adding there was “no indication this was a terror attack”.
“I am sure there are concerns and worry”, he said, “but I can not discern that the German population is filled with angst, something that wouldn’t be good because fear offers poor counsel”.
“The Syrian in Ansbach was facing deportation and this was to Bulgaria”.
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Stephan Mayer, a lawmaker in Merkel’s Christian Democratic-led bloc, urged calm and warned against hasty judgments, particularly over the chancellor’s refugee policy, which triggered public anxiety after more than a million migrants made their way to Germany in 2015.
