Terrorism

Office of the attorney General determined to attack in Ansbach

The plot of Ansbach in was obviously the first Islamist suicide bombing
Germany. The Federal government took over legal profession the investigation. It is suspected that the offender IS a member.

Forensics after the attack in Ansbach

The Federal Prosecutor’s office is determined according to its own figures on suspicion of
Membership in a foreign terrorist organization, attempted
Murder and other offences. The assassin, a refugee from Syria had fired on Saturday evening in Ansbach, in the vicinity of an Open-Air concert, a bomb and killed himself. According to new information from the police, 15 people were injured, four of them seriously.

As the Federal Prosecutor’s office said, was backed up to a mobile phone of the man a Video in which a hooded Person is committed to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the terrorist militia “Islamic state”. According to the investigation,
it was to be assumed that it was the culprit of Ansbach.

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Bavarian interior Minister Herrmann in the wording

It is suspected that the action “had perpetrated the 27-Year-old as a member of the IS,” said the Federal Prosecutor. Clarified to be whether or not other Stakeholders or the men behind had been involved in the act. First, the Bavarian interior Minister Joachim Herrmann of the alleged Islamist Background of the attack had been reported.

The terrorist group took over in the meantime, the responsibility for the attack. A corresponding statement published on the IS news Agency Amak. It IS referred to the perpetrators as “soldiers”.

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Material for bomb-making

In the room of the assassin in a refugee accommodation, the police found, among other things,
a Ten-litre canister of Diesel, hydrochloric acid, alcohol, cleaners, thinners, soldering iron, and batteries, which were obviously the bomb. In addition, a Laptop with a “clearly violent images and film sequences”
ensured that are related to the IS, reported the investigators.

The man had also six Facebook Accounts operated, at least one of them under a false name. In these Accounts there are references to Islamism. In addition, a man from the closer environment of the assassin was arrested, the have stated, to be merely an interpreter. This will now
tested, shared with police representatives.

After the presentation of the German interior Minister, Thomas de Maizière, the man had come for the first time two years ago to Germany. In August 2014, the 27-year-old refugee from Syria have applied for asylum. The procedure had been determined that he got in Bulgaria refugee protection awarded.

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Roommate of the Ansbach-be assassin: “He has lied often”

To leave asked

Therefore, the application for asylum has been rejected by the end of 2014. In February 2015, the man received according to the Lord’s words, a toleration that was extended several times. Before not even two weeks ago, the Federal office for refugees (BAMF) I asked him again to leave Germany within 30 days in the direction of Bulgaria.

Of the Syrians was, according to the authorities, more often in psychiatric treatment. He twice tried to take his own life. According to Herrmann, the man repeated the criminal law was to become conspicuous, among other things because of a drug offence.

wl/kle (dpa, rtr, afp)