It appears to be the same as the one found by German investigators on the phone of man who blew himself, killing himself and wounding 15 people.
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The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.
Germany’s existing laws were sufficient for authorities to respond to a series of attacks across Germany over the past week, including Wurzburg, Munich, Reutlingen and Ansbach, de Maiziere said.
The man, a 27-year-old Syrian who had been denied asylum in Germany, killed himself and injured twelve others when he set off a bomb outside a crowded music festival in Ansbach, a small town of 40,000 people southwest of Nuremberg.
De Maiziere says police will strengthen patrols at airports.
The attack was carried out by “one of the soldiers of the Islamic State”, the extremist group said.
The IS-linked Aamaq news agency released the video early Tuesday.
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 a year ago.
The attack in Ansbach, Germany, only killed the bomber. 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.
The teenage gunman who slaughtered nine people in Munich on Friday had also been treated for a range of psychiatric problems in the lead-up to his attack, but had no known links to terrorism.
The attacker has been named locally as Mohammad Daleel, 27, a failed asylum seeker who was facing deportation to Bulgaria when he detonated his device after being turned away from a music festival.
Fertinger said there likely would have been more casualties if the man had not been turned away. Four of the 15 victims suffered serious injuries.
Investigators also need to determine how the video from the attacker got to IS and where he learned to build a bomb.
Plate told reporters that the first deportation notice was issued on December 22, 2014, but it wasn’t clear why he hadn’t been deported then.
He said the man was to be deported to Bulgaria because he had submitted his first asylum request in the southeastern European country.
Hermann said the man had been under psychiatric treatment after at least two previous suicide attempts.
Police on Monday morning raided a nearby asylum shelter where the attacker seems to have lived, according to other residents of the home.
“Everyone was shocked, nobody could help anyone, we didn’t know what to do”, she said.
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Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said on Monday that a video had been found on the bomber’s mobile phone in which he pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
