The video appeared 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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During a news conference, Herrman stated: “A provisional translation by an interpreter shows that he expressly announces, in the name of Allah, and testifying his allegiance to (Islamic State leader) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.an act of revenge against the Germans because they’re getting in the way of Islam”.
Herrmann added the video confirms the explosion had an Islamist objective.
Refused entry Shortly after 10pm on Sunday the man, identified as Mohammad Daleel, detonated explosives in a rucksack, which also containing nails and metal scraps, after he was refused entry for not having a ticket to a music festival in the town of Ansbach. Fifteen were rushed to hospital with serious, though not life-threatening, injuries. He said authorities had investigated 59 allegations of migrants tied to terror groups, most of which have turned up empty.
Horst Seehofer, conservative premier of Bavaria state which saw three of the attacks, called into question the principle that asylum seekers should never be sent back to war zones. The Police confirmed that the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber who was the only causality in the incident. “But our constitutional order will not yield”. At four public sites across the country starting last Monday, 10 people have been killed and scores more injured-some critically-in suicide bombings, stabbings, and in one instance, an ax-wielding teenager.
Security staff at the concert noticed a suspicious person wearing a backpack pacing up and down around the entrance to the event, a police statement said.
Armin Nassehi, a sociologist at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, said that among the 1 million asylum seekers who were registered in Germany past year, “there’s a big number of traumatized people who know nothing but violence – that’s a fact one can not ignore”. After refusal a year ago, a third attempt to deport him was looming.
However a social worker who knew him, Reinhold Eschenbacher, described him as “friendly, inconspicuous and nice” when he came to his office pick up his welfare benefits, DPA news agency reported.
Sunday’s bomb attack was also in Bavaria, in the town of Ansbach.
Germany has largely avoided large scale terrorist attacks on its soil, in contrast with the assaults that killed hundreds in Paris, Brussels and Nice over the previous year.
The Islamic State group claimed both attacks.
It was the second violent incident in Germany on Sunday and the fourth in the past week, including the killing of nine people by a deranged 18-year-old Iranian-German gunman in the Bavarian capital Munich on Friday.
On Sunday, a man killed a woman with a machete in Reutlingen.
In Ansbach, eyewitnesses said the blast was so strong they felt it in their bodies.
“The people of our country can not be expected to finance the protection of people who violate the law with their tax money”, he said.
“Nothing can be covered up but nothing should be exaggerated”.
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Terrorist militia Islamic State on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in southern Germany – the latest in a string of attacks that have shattered the country’s sense of calm and stoked tensions over accepting migrants.
