The 27-year-old injured 12 people outside a packed wine bar in Ansbach, near Nuremberg at 10pm last night after being turned away from an open-air music festival filled with 2,500 people because he didn’t have a ticket.
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At least 35 people were also wounded during Sonboly’s attack, which began at a McDonald’s restaurant and ended with him turning his 9mm Glock pistol on himself.
Police also found a self-made video on a cellphone in which the alleged assailant said he would “attack the Germans because they stand in the way of Islam”.
But the fact that recent migrants were involved in three of the four prominent attacks over the last week was certain to reignite debate about immigration – Bavaria has been a point of entry and a destination for numerous more than 1 million migrants who have sought refuge in Germany since the start of a year ago.
Asked how similar attacks could best be prevented, de Maiziere said it was important to ensure that new arrivals be well-integrated quickly into German society.
“We will find what exactly was behind this”, Merkel told reporters in the Chancellery on Saturday. This attack in Ansbach is only one of a string of attacks across Germany this week, some of which seem to be terrorist related.
According to De Maiziere, the Syrian arrived in Germany two years ago and applied for asylum protection in August 2014.
Mr. Wendt said Germany had “lost control” of its own borders over the past year thanks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy to Middle Eastern migrants bound for Central Europe.
In an interview, Mahmood said Daleel told him that he had come to Germany via Bulgaria.
The Ansbach attack was one of four recent brutal assaults in Germany’s south – three of which were carried out by asylum seekers – that have reignited political friction in the country.
“The doctor is in intensive care”, the spokeswoman said, adding there was “no indication this was a terror attack”.
He was facing imminent deportation to Bulgaria, where he was first registered as an asylum seeker, an interior ministry spokesman said.
“I think that after this video there’s no doubt that the attack was a terrorist attack with an Islamic background.’It’s bad. that someone who came into our country to seek shelter has now committed such a heinous act and injured a large number of people who are at home here, some seriously”.
On Sunday, a 21-year-old Syrian used a machete to kill a 45-year-old Polish woman in the southern city of Reutlingen.
The two attacks came as Germany was already reeling from a shooting rampage in Munich Friday by an 18-year-old who killed nine people before turning the gun on himself.
Horst Seehofer, the governor of Bavaria – where three of last week’s attacks took place – told the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung Tuesday: “We must know who is in our country”.
Asked why there were so many attacks in such a short time, Nassehi suggested some of the attackers may be copycats, saying that “images of violence produce further violence”.
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Seehofer leads the Christian Social Union, the sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats, and has always been a vocal critic of the refugee influx for which Bavaria was the primary gateway.
