Afghan train attacker kept IS flag in his German home

Investigator Lothar Koehler said the teenager’s motivation appeared to be Islamic extremism based upon a passage, found among notes in his apartment, which read: “Pray for me that I can take revenge on these infidels and pray for me that I will go to heaven”.

Details of the notebook were revealed at a press conference this afternoon where it was also claimed Riyad – who was shot dead by police as he tried to flee – was a “devout Sunni Muslim”. The suspect has not been named.

German authorities said they had authenticated the video. Now the Islamic Caliphate has been established in Iraq, Al-Sham, Khorosan, Libya and Yemen and God Willing, soldiers of the caliphate will get you.

However, the minister said, he acted as a lone wolf and “the video does not contain any indications as to whether there was an order from ISIS”.

Kohler said it was clear the attack was “politically motivated”. He vowed in a note that he would “take revenge on these infidels”, German investigators said Tuesday.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a train in Germany that injured at least five people.

In the IS video the youth uses phrases of a dialect of Pashto spoken in Pakistan and not Afghanistan and experts have indicated that his accent is also clearly Pakistani, ZDF said. CNN has contacted Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is awaiting an official reply.

WUERZBURG, Germany (AP) – A 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker vowing “revenge on these infidels” went on an ax-and-knife rampage on a train in southern Germany, wounding five people before being shot and killed by police – an attack that German authorities conceded Tuesday was nearly impossible to prevent.

According to German police, about 20 to 30 people were on the train, which made an emergency stop short of the station at Wurzburg-Heidingsfeld.

The assailant jumped off the train, and was chased and confronted by police.

He also defended the police who shot the attacker, saying the teenager had run at officers brandishing the axe.

After a passenger pulled the train’s emergency brake, the attacker fled and struck in the face a woman who was walking her dog. Bamberg prosecutor Erik Ohlenschlager said that at least two of the wounded were suffering from “acute life-threatening” wounds.

“It might be an incident on the thin line between killing spree and terror”, de Maiziere said.

Two days before the attack, he found out that a friend had died in Afghanistan and reportedly was very agitated by the news, but investigators say exactly what happened is unclear.

A Pakistani document was also found in his room.

Bavaria’s state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann confirmed the flag had been found in the teenager’s room in Ochsenfurt, but said the teen had acted alone, and that it was too early to say whether he had an extremist Islamic background.

In a statement that used language similar to an announcement after an attack on Thursday in Nice, France, the Amaq News Agency said that the axe assault had been committed by an “Islamic State soldier”.

Germany registered about 1 million migrants previous year and many have been on edge about how the country will cope with them.

Three Syrian men were arrested last month on suspicions they were planning to carry out a mass casualty attack in Duesseldorf.

Correcting initial information that the suspect came to Germany some two years ago, Koehler said he had been first registered as a refugee in June 2015, when he crossed into the country from Austria.

He listed security measures taken in recent months, including making journeys overseas to terroristic organizations punishable, and improving collaboration with national and worldwide security services.

Renate Künast, a prominent politician and former leader of the country’s Green party, suggested that police officers should not have killed the 17-year-old. Like several other EU countries, like the entire EU, Germany is also a target area of worldwide terrorism. I have said it for a long time.