A spokesman at the base said the base had no information about the explosion. “[People were] definitely panicking”. He was given accommodation in Ansbach, a city with a USA military base and a population of about 40,000 people.
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Inside source confirmed to “Amaq Agency” that the achiever of martyr operation in the city in #Ansbach #Deutschland, one of the soldiers of the Islamic State is.
US and German flags fly outside 12th Combat Aviation Brigade Headquarters overlooking Katterbach Army Airfield in Ansbach, Germany, in April 2016. On July 18, an asylum seeker from Pakistan injured five people on a train when he attacked them with an axe. He was later killed by police. ISIS claimed the attacker had pledged his support to the militant group.
Last Friday, nine people were also killed by a teenage gunman in the state capital, Munich, who then shot himself dead.
Earlier on Sunday, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee was arrested after killing a pregnant woman and injured two other people in the southwestern city of Reutlingen, near Stuttgart. He used a machete in the attack.
“It’s a further, horrific attack that will increase the already growing security concerns of our citizens”.
“I understand that many people are anxious”, De Maizere said, “I can assure you that our rule of law is strong and remains strong”.
He said the man, who has not been named, also “announced an act of revenge against Germans because they were standing in the way of Islam”.
A device was exploded by a 27-year-old Syrian national outside a music festival. He tried to commit suicide twice before. He had received two deportation notices, Plate said, with the first being issued on December 22, 2014.
Germany could not deport the deranged terrorist because the conflict in Syria was too unsafe, according to German interior ministry spokesman Tobias Plate.
“Syrians can not at the moment be deported to Syria, but that doesn’t mean that Syrians overall can not be deported”, he told reporters in Berlin.
One question that does not seem to be answered yet is why his application was denied.
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De Maiziere told a press conference in Berlin that the investigation on the attack outside a music festival in Ansbach, a city in southern German state of Bavaria, was still in an early stage.
