Those materials included fuel, hydrochloric acid, alcohol-based cleaner, soldering irons, wires and pebbles.
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State Interior Minister Joachim Hermann said two phones, multiple SIM cards and a laptop were found with the body of the asylum seeker or at his accommodation.
Amaq reported that an “insider source” said the attacker “carried out the operation in response to calls to target countries of the coalition that fights Islamic State”. He said he’d ordered a massive increase in staffing numbers for Bavaria’s police force, following four violent incidents in southern Germany over the past week.
Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office has taken on the case due to “the suspicion of membership of a foreign terrorist organisation”.
Germany accepted more than 1 million asylum seekers past year, and some Germans have expressed fears that terrorists might have entered the country among them, or that disaffected youths among the refugees could be susceptible to radicalization. He then walked to the outdoor seating area of the bar, where the explosion hit, they said. The man had sought to enter the concert but couldn’t get in, Mr. Herrmann said earlier Monday. The woman was 45 and from Poland, police said. He had been in trouble with police repeatedly for drug-taking and other offences and had faced deportation to Bulgaria.
Herrmann said the man, who arrived in Germany two years ago, was refused refugee status but allowed to remain because of the civil war raging in his homeland.
In a nation grappling with massive backlog of hundreds of thousands of asylum applications, the attack prompted a chorus of voices critical of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s initial decision to welcome refugees and others during a huge surge into Europe past year.
This is purported to be the “martyrdom” video of the man, Mohammad Daleel, who attacked the music festival at Ansbach Germany. He had again been prompted to leave the country this month.
– Daesh claimed he was one of its “soldiers”. On Friday, nine people were killed in a shopping center shooting spree in Munich by a German-Iranian teenager with a history of psychological problems but no links to jihadists.
On Sunday, another Syrian asylum seeker was arrested in the town of Reutlingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, after allegedly using a machete to kill a Polish woman who had apparently rejected his romantic advances.
An explosion in the southern German city of Ansbach that killed one person and injured 10 others was a suicide attack, according to the region’s interior minister. “It is new for me to feel this way”, she said, as translated from Hebrew.
Many acts of terrorism in Western countries are carried out in revenge for the countries’ intervention in regional hot spots. But, he added, “it is clear that with these attacks in quick succession, the worries and fears in our population will grow”. Concerns had died down as the flood of newcomers has slowed dramatically, but the recent attacks have rekindled the debate over how Germany can best cope with the numbers.
Aamaq also tweeted a photo which it claims is the terrorist without any face covering.
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Ansbach is home to a U.S. Army Garrison, with the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade located at the Katterbach Army Airfield just outside the city.
