An explosion has reportedly gone off near an office for migration in Germany.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel says the fact that two men who came to Germany as refugees carried out attacks claimed by the Islamic State group “mocks the country that took them in”.
“Apparently, there has been a direct contact with someone, who decisively influenced the attack”, Herrmann told the German news agency DPA.
The announcement of the plan was followed by the revelation that a n 18-year-old German-Iranian who killed nine people and injured 36 in Munich left a document several pages long about his psychiatric illnesses, his school situation and his neighbourhood.
“There are indications that the attacker did not want to ignite the bomb at this moment”, a spokesman for the Bavarian Interior Ministry said.
After the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011, Daleel formed a cell specialising in attacking Syrian government forces with hand grenades and Molotov cocktails.
The Islamic State – which has already claimed responsibility for his attack and issued a video of the assailant – additionally said that German police had nearly foiled Daleel’s plot.
He also helped the group with its propaganda efforts, setting up pro-IS accounts online. They missed the bomb he spent three months making during a search of his refugee center because, it said, “he hid it quickly before they entered”.
Australia’s News.com reports that ISIS itself released the Daleel video, in which the bomber specifically pledges allegiance to the Islamic State “caliph”, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and one of his top lieutenants, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani – the oath of allegiance known as bay’ah under Islamic law.
Despite the fact that not all the cases were terror-related, they have caused concerns about the government’s migration policy that saw more than 1 million people enter Germany past year.
“It’s possible to deduce that another person wherever they were at the time of the call, of the chat, significantly influenced how the attacker acted”, Herrmann said on the sidelines of a meeting of the Bavarian cabinet.
As for whether people could be treated differently depending on their religion, “as I understand it that simply would be incompatible with our understanding of freedom of religion”, he said.
Daleel unsuccessfully applied for asylum in Germany and was awaiting deportation, German authorities said.
According to German authorities, the assailant travelled to Germany two years ago but had his asylum claim rejected after a year because he had already been granted refugee status in Bulgaria.
German train operator Deutsche Bahn said Wednesday it would invest heavily in increased security and hire hundreds of security staff to control trains and train stations across the country.
The city of Munich said it is re-evaluating its security concept for the annual Oktoberfest and is considering banning all backpacks from the popular beer fest.
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A video purporting to show the suspect in an attack on an open air music festival in the town of Ansbach, Bavaria, surfaced on Monday evening, July 25, bearing the logo of Islamic State mouthpiece Amaq News. Both of the attackers, asylum-seekers who arrived over the past two years, were killed. In the most recent attack, a 27-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker set off a back. GERMANY OUT – Police officers walk past a wall with a peace dove on a banner at the site of the attack in Ansbach, Germany, Tuesday July 26, 2016.
