Germany: Syrian asylum seekers blows himself up, wounding 12

Details are emerging about the 27 year-old who blew himself up outside a wine bar at a music festival in Ansbach on Sunday.

No one other than the bomber was killed in the attack, attended by some 2,000 people. The attack in the southern city of Ansbach on Sunday night was the fourth in Germany in a week.

Mr Herrmann also said bomb-making materials were found at the man’s home after police discovered gasoline, chemicals and other material that could be used to make a bomb.

A suicide bomb attack by a Syrian asylum seeker was claimed by Isil yesterday (Monday), in what is believed to be the first attack of its kind in Germany.

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.

And last Monday, a 17-year-old refugee from Pakistan (originally thought to have been Afghan) was shot dead by police after injuring five people with an ax on a commuter train in southern Germany.

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“When I heard the police sirens, I knew it’s either a gas explosion or a terrorist attack”, said Nikolas, a 21-year-old web designer.

The so-called Dublin principle observed by many countries determines that asylum seekers who have passed through a safe third country where they could have claimed asylum can be sent back there in order to make their claim. The initiative came amid growing tensions and concerns in Germany about how it would integrate the estimated 1 million-plus migrants it registered crossing into the country past year.

The IS-linked Aamaq news agency said the attacker acted in response to the extremist group’s call to target countries of the US -led coalition fighting it in Iraq and Syria.

Police said the attacker had also been known for drug possession.

“This finding coincides with recent studies that say that the danger of terrorism among refugees is neither larger nor smaller than among the rest of the population”, said Ulrike Demmer, the German government’s spokesman.

German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere said it was too early to rule out terrorism as a motive, but noted that the suspect had twice attempted suicide and had been receiving psychological care.

Herrmann said the man’s request for asylum was rejected a year ago, but he was allowed to remain in Germany because of the strife in Syria.

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The man threatened a “revenge attack” on Germans in the video, he said.

ISIS said he was a “soldier of Islamic State” and describe the attack as a “martyrdom operation”. 265: People killed in recent attacks in Nice, Paris and Brussels. The German-born, 18-year-old son of Iranian asylum seekers went on a shooting spree and killed nine people.

Not far from the Hotel Christi, a former hotel that now houses refugees, an elderly man and a young woman stand chatting over a garden fence.

“The Islamic State is waging a brutal war of aggression. against our way of life”, said Joachim Herrmann, the top security official in Bavaria, where three of the attacks took place.

State police said on Saturday the shooter was neither a refugee nor known to have terror links, but had been receiving psychiatric treatment.