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Ansbach in a state of emergency

A Syrian refugee blows in Ansbach in the air. The day after the Islamist attack, the city is in shock and wants to not get to you. From Ansbach Nina Niebergall.

On Sunday evening, most of the Ansbacher heard a loud Bang then the helicopter, the sirens. As the 27-year-old Syrians in the middle Franconian small town blew up in the air, they were home in safety. A young woman, at the scene of the crime. She was together with her father on the Racecourse in the city centre, the Open-Air Festival that takes place there annually. An hour before the fact, she left the premises.

“It’s a strange feeling,” she says. Her mother adds: “We live in a small town, that something like this happens, we would not have thought of.” Both are looking at the little Inn, behind an archway marks the entrance to the festival grounds. With a view to the international journalists char, which brings it is in the position, she said: “this is something we have never before experienced.”

When the police picks up in the afternoon, the blocking of the scene of the crime is revealed the Scene of the attack: a half-full wine glasses and empty beer bottles standing on the beer benches of a wine bar.

Explosive device in the backpack

On the floor are marked with chalk the outline of the perpetrator – around dried blood spots, and occasionally wood and glass splinters. By the Detonation of the window panes of a photo business went to break. Some of the bikes that are connected in front of the beer garden, had apparently remained intact.

Traces of destruction: the Detonation of The bomb also destroyed the discs in the beer garden

The young Syrians had fired on the previous day an explosive device he was carrying in his backpack. The sharp metal parts in it were suitable, a lot of people to kill, said the Bavarian interior Minister Joachim Herrmann in the Morning.

Meanwhile, The bomber had tried to enter on the grounds of the Open-Air Festivals. As the folder, seduced him to the entrance, he lit up against 22 at the bomb at the entrance. 15 bystanders were injured, at least four of them seriously.

The Terror is getting closer

“When I heard the police, I knew It was either a gas explosion or a terrorist attack,” says Nicholas, a 21-year-old Web developer. Friends of his had been to the Festival. The police have conducted as well as all the other visitors, after the assassination of the site.

He will avoid such large-scale events in the future, he says. After only a few days ago a 17-Year-old attacked in a train to Würzburg, several people with an ax, feel that he, as a move of the terrorist is getting closer.

Not all of Ansbacher, to bow down to this insight. “I don’t want to live in fear,” says a young mother with her Baby on the Arm of British journalists to Interview. You feel as safe in Ansbach.

In the vicinity of the former Hotel of the Christ, in the meantime, refugees are housed, have a conversation an older man and a young woman over the garden fence. To your life in Ansbach you will change nothing, to say nothing of its attitude to the refugees. “The greetings are always so nice, if you run over on the way to the language school,” says the man. “One can’t generalize.”

Forensics: The refugee accommodation, which was formerly a Hotel, is searched

Nickname “Rambo”

Also the suicide bomber lived in a converted Hotel. The property has been cordoned off by the police, on the second floor the shutters are let down. In the Morning security forces had searched the building. In the room of the assassin, the police found a gasoline canister with Diesel and hydrochloric acid, isopropyl alcohol, soldering iron, wires, batteries, and pebble stones.

Among the personal belongings of the assassin was also a Laptop, the violence would have propaganda found at the end of a connection to the terrorist militia “Islamic state”. On his phone, this was even more pronounced: In a Video of the 27-Year-old had made a stop of a threat. Meanwhile, the IS officially took over the responsibility.

A resident of the refugee accommodation, the 28-year-old Pakistani Mubariz, paints a different picture of the young Syrian. He was friendly,but most of the time rather for remained. Most of the refugees knew him because of his muscular physique and long hair, only under the name of “Rambo”.

Only since this Morning Mubariz know his real name. “He was hopeful that Germany would not send him back to Bulgaria,” says Mubariz.

Deportation to Bulgaria

The assassin had come two years ago from Syria to Germany and had applied for asylum. After this had been rejected two years ago, lived the refugee with a Duldung in the Ansbacher accommodation. As the Federal government announced the Ministry of interior, Bulgaria deported.

After the police removed the barrier tape around the crime scene, the Ansbacher life in the evening back to almost normal. Only the many journalists, the hectic in the narrow streets of the old town, back and forth race, and the large Television on the market square are still reminiscent of the attack from the night before.