Now there is an explosion at a Ansbach restaurant

[novasteve]

breaking. Cause unknown at leas one is dead

 

[Kosh]

Police said that at least one person was killed and several were seriously injured, according to the Nürnberger Zeitung.

Explosion Reported at Restaurant in Ansbach, Germany

 

[waltky]

Ansbach bomber pledged allegiance to ISIS...

Suicide bomber in Germany pledged allegiance to ISIS leader
Mon July 25, 2016 - The Syrian suicide bomber who injured 15 people in a Sunday night attack on a music festival in Ansbach, Germany, left behind a video pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said Monday.

The ISIS-affiliated media group Amaq also 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. In the video left on a mobile phone, the 27-year-old Syrian announced his threat to carry out an attack "as an act of revenge against Germans, because they obstruct Islam," Herrmann told a press conference. The man said the attack would be committed in the name of Allah as retaliation for the killing of Muslims. The bomber, who has not been named, was killed. "I believe that after this video we cannot doubt that this attack was an Islamist terror attack," Herrmann said.

Four of the 15 victims were seriously injured in the attack, Ansbach Mayor Carla Seidel said at a news conference Monday. The bombing has rattled the German public following a week of violence in southern Germany that began on July 18, when an immigrant teen, apparently also inspired by ISIS, stabbed passengers on a train in Wurzburg in Bavaria. That was followed by a shooting spree Friday in which nine people were killed in the Bavarian state capital, Munich, before a Syrian asylum seeker killed a woman in Reutlingen, in the neighboring southern German state of Baden-Wurttemberg, on Sunday, hours ahead of the Ansbach attack. The wave of violence has fueled criticism of Chancellor Angela Merkel's welcoming stance toward immigrants, with the hashtag #Merkelsommer, or "Merkel summer," circulating on social media. Germany accepted more than 1 million asylum seekers last year, and some Germans have expressed fears that terrorists might have entered the country among them, or that disaffected youths among the refugees could be susceptible to radicalization.

Bomber's asylum application rejected

A picture is starting to emerge of the attacker, a rejected asylum seeker known for petty criminal offenses who was looking for a job. In an old hotel converted into a refugee shelter, one of the attacker's neighbors, Mubariz Mahmoof from Pakistan, said he was generally a "friendly and happy" person, and that he last saw him a few days ago on the balcony of his room, smiling and waving to say hello. He had been asking Mahmoof for advice on how to get a job at McDonald's. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the attacker had arrived in Germany two years ago and applied for asylum in 2014. He was informed two weeks ago that his application had been denied and that he would be deported to Bulgaria in 30 days, Hermann said.

European Union laws say that asylum seekers must wait out the application process in the country where they arrive in the EU, said Johannes Dimroth, spokesman for Germany's Federal Interior Ministry. However, the deportation to Bulgaria was temporarily suspended due to medical evaluations, and the man was placed in a psychiatric clinic at some point, de Maiziere said. Officials said he had twice attempted suicide before the bombing. Police searching his home found two mobile phones and multiple SIM cards as well as material to make explosive devices, Herrmann said.

Playing cards flecked with blood

 

[Godboy]

Well, maybe they will be constantly raped and attacked by terrorists now that they invited millions of them to live in their country, but at least they can sleep easy knowing they got to do "the right thing".