The Syrian man, who is 27-year-old and was denied asylum in Germany last year, chose to blow himself up on Sunday.
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Minister says threat of attacks remain high in Germany The danger of attacks in Germany remains high, an interior ministry spokesman said on Monday after a spate of four attacks over the last week that have left 10 people dead and 34 injured.
The attack, outside a music festival in Ansbach, a town of 40,000 people southwest of Nuremberg that has a US Army base, was the fourth act of violence by men of Middle Eastern or Asian origin against German civilians in a week, reports Reuters.
Meanwhile, a patient shot a doctor in a university clinic in Berlin on Tuesday before killing himself, but there were “no signs at all” of a link with Islamist militancy, police in the German capital said.
The attacks left ten victims dead and dozens wounded and have rekindled concerns about Germany’s ability to cope with the estimated 1 million migrants registered entering the country a year ago.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere also warned against placing refugees “under general suspicion”, despite “individual cases that are under investigation”.
Authorities have revealed that the suicide bomber responsible for the explosion in Ansbach, Germany was in the process of being deported from the country prior to the attack.
Police said the Syrian man meant to target the open-air festival attended by 2,500 people but was turned away as he did not have a ticket, and detonated the device outside a nearby cafe.
The shooting came with Germany already on edge after 4 brutal attacks in the south of the country.
Herrmann says authorities need to examine how a refugee was able to collect such material in his room in a state-funded home for asylum seekers.
In its claim of responsibility, the extremist group said the attack was carried out by “one of the soldiers of the Islamic State”. Police said that he had planned the attack for a year.
Armin Schuster, the Christian Democrats homeland security expert in the Bundestag, told the Stuttgarter Zeitung that Germany had failed to deport more than 200,000 people whose applications for asylum had been rejected.
“I think that after this video there’s no doubt that the attack was a terrorist attack with an Islamic background.’It’s awful. 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”. The call from the leader of the key partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition is expected to exert more pressure upon the government’s open-door refugee policy.
Earlier yesterday, a Syrian man killed a woman with a machete and wounded two others outside a bus station in the southwestern city of Reutlingen before being arrested. The two were in psychiatric treatment together past year and allegedly met at the scene of the attack shortly before it began, prosecutors said yesterday.
Hundreds of people, many of them in tears, gathered on Sunday outside the Munich shopping centre where the attack took place to pay tribute to the victims.
On Sunday, another Syrian refugee killed a woman and injured two others in a knife attack.
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The sexual assaults in Cologne, which prosecutors said were committed largely by foreigners, fueled anti-immigrant sentiment and helped bolster support for the populist, anti-Islam AfD party in three regional elections.
