Herrmann said the man had apparently been denied entry to the Ansbach Open music festival shortly before the explosion, which happened outside a restaurant called Eugens Weinstube.
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According to the same source, the Bavarian interior minister, Joachim Herrmann said during a press conference that the man, identified as a 27 year old Syrian refugee, also announced an intent to take “revenge” on German citizens who are “getting in the way of Islam”.
Merkel’s govt said it was wrong to blame the liberal refugee policy for recent assaults ■ But Stephan Mayer, a deputy from Merkel’s conservative bloc, said 1.1million migrants and refugees Germany let in previous year represented a “big challenge” for the police GERMANY RATTLEDOVER 660: People killed in attacks in Europe and Americas since Jan 2015.
A hearse leaves the area after an explosion in Ansbach near Nuremberg, Germany, July 25, 2016.
A 27-year-old Syrian man denied asylum in Germany a year ago died when he set off a bomb outside a crowded music festival in Bavaria.
Germany could not deport the deranged terrorist because the conflict in Syria was too unsafe, according to German interior ministry spokesman Tobias Plate.
Ansbach prosecutor Michael Schrotberger said the attacker had suffered episodes of depression.
Ansbach resident Thomas Debinski said people panicked when they heard the explosion, especially after the events of the past week.
The teen, who had German and Iranian nationality, was obsessed with mass killings – including Norwegian rightwing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik’s 2011 massacre – and spent a year preparing for the shooting spree, police said.
Earlier Sunday, 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 ISIS-affiliated media group Amaq claimed the attacker was an ISIS “soldier” in a statement the group’s supporters posted online Monday, but there is no evidence he was in contact with ISIS or directed to carry out an attack.
“Until now, there was a consensus that you don’t deport rejected asylum seekers to a war zone”, he told the “Münchner Merkur”.
And an ax attack on a train near Wuerzburg last Monday wounded five.
On searching the bomber’s room, Nuremberg police found diesel, hydrochloric acid, alcohol, batteries, paint thinner and pebbles – the same materials used in the bomb – and computer images and film clips linked to the militant group, they said.
Police say the chat appears to show that the 16-year-old met with the attacker immediately before the shooting started, and knew the attacker had a pistol. Three recent attacks took place in Bavaria.
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Stephan Mayer, a deputy from Merkel’s conservative bloc, insisted that it was “completely wrong to blame Angela Merkel and her refugee policy” for the rash of violence. A Syrian refugee in a town south of Stuttgart murdered a pregnant woman with a meat cleaver and then attacked strangers in the street, wounding two people before he was hit by a vehicle and arrested. More than 2,000 people visited the festival each day July 22-24.
