A 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker was shot and killed by police when he fled the scene, and DAESH claimed responsibility for the attack.
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The unnamed man had repeatedly received psychiatric treatment, including for attempted suicide, Herrmann said.
Interior Ministry spokesman Tobias Plate said the man was set to be deported to Bulgaria.
The violence reignited political friction that had eased as the number of new arrivals to Germany slowed to a trickle in recent months due to the closure of the Balkans migration route and an European Union deal with Turkey to take back migrants.
Germany yesterday warned of a potential backlash against migrants after the Syrian asylum seeker blew himself up outside a music festival.
The 27-year-old blew himself up shortly after 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) at a bar, after having been turned away from an open-air music festival in the southern town of Ansbach, because because he didn’t have a ticket. About 2,500 people were rapidly evacuated from the festival in Ansbach, which also hosts a USA military base.
In a press conference Monday, Ansbach’s mayor Carda Seidel said that 15 people affected by the explosion do not have life-threatening injuries and are expected to fully recover.
Germans are reeling from a spate of violent attacks that have shaken a country already anxious about its open-door refugee policy and fearful that Islamist terrorist attacks like those in neighboring France could take place here, too. “We were all petrified”.
“Neither the identities of all people that have come to us, nor their mental and physical condition are clarified”, he criticized. “A few people had been hit by tiles that had fallen off a roof” because of the blast.
Police said the man meant to target the open-air festival but was turned away as he did not have a ticket, and detonated the device outside a nearby cafe.
Anxiety over Germany’s ability to cope with last year’s flood of more than 1 million registered asylum seekers first surged following a series of sexual assaults and robberies in Cologne during New Year celebrations.
“My personal view is that I unfortunately think it’s very likely this really was an extremist suicide attack”, Bavarian interior minister Joachim Herrmann told German news agency DPA.
“It’s terrible that someone who came into our country to find protection carries out such a gruesome deed”, he told reporters. Another Syrian refugee killed a pregnant woman and injured a man with a machete near the city of Reutlingen on Sunday.
The Islamic State group claimed both attacks.
“The Syrian in Ansbach was facing deportation and this was to Bulgaria”, he said. The youth had obsessively researched mass shootings, and authorities said the attack does not appear to be linked to Islamic extremists.
In the deadliest attack in the past week, the 18-year-old son of Iranian immigrants went on a rampage at a Munich mall, killing nine people and wounding dozens.
Police said the woman was 45 years old and from Poland.
Fifteen people were injured in the explosion, which only killed the attacker himself, according to the latest information provided by police.
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Most of the attackers later caught by police were not recently arrived refugees from Syria, but young men who had come to Germany before 2015 from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.
