Islamic terrorism is on the rise across Europe, and critics say German Chancelor Angela Merkel’s mishandling of the refugee crisis is largely to blame.
This weekend, innocent people again paid for her mistakes with their blood.
A Muslim asylum-seeker from Syria blew himself up and wounded 15 people outside an open-air music festival in southern Germany, authorities said Monday. It was the fourth attack to shake Germany in a week – three of them carried out by recent migrants.
The 27-year-old terrorist, whom authorities have not identified, set off a backpack laden with explosives and sharp bits of metal outside a wine bar Sunday night after being refused entry to the nearby festival in the southern town of Ansbach because he didn’t have a ticket.
Roman Fertinger, the deputy police chief in nearby Nuremberg, said there likely would have been more casualties if the man had managed to enter the concert venue.
Four of the 15 victims suffered serious injuries in the blast.
“My personal view is that I unfortunately think it’s very likely this really was an Islamist suicide attack,” Bavarian interior minister Joachim Herrmann told German news agency dpa. No group immediately claimed responsibility.
Bavaria’s top security official said a video has been found on the bomber’s phone showing him pledging allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State group.
Herrmann said the man’s request for asylum was rejected a year ago, and a spokesman for Germany’s interior ministry said he had received two deportation notices.
Tobias Plate said the man was most recently told on July 13 that he would be deported to Bulgaria, where he submitted his first asylum request.
Plate told reporters that the first deportation notice was issued on Dec. 22, 2014, but it wasn’t clear why he hadn’t been deported then. Asylum-seekers are routinely deported back to the first country where they registered if they don’t follow proper procedures, even if they’re considered to have a legitimate claim for asylum.
The unnamed man had repeatedly received psychiatric treatment, including twice for attempted suicide, authorities said, and had been known to police for drug possession.
Authorities on Monday morning raided the asylum shelter where he lived in the suburbs of Ansbach and searched his room.
A team of 30 investigators was interviewing the man’s acquaintances and examining evidence collected from his home.
Asked whether the bomber might have links to the Islamic State group, Herrmann said that couldn’t be ruled out, though there was no concrete evidence yet.
“The obvious intention to kill more people indicates an Islamist connection,” he told dpa.
Authorities said they were alerted to the explosion in Ansbach’s city’s center shortly after 10 p.m.
Police said the Syrian blew himself up in the outside seating area of a wine bar near the open-air concert.
They said in a statement that security staff noticed the man with the backpack near the entrance of the concert site around 9:45 p.m.
Police spokeswoman Elke Schoenwald said he was refused entry to the concert because he didn’t have a ticket. He then sat down on a chair outside the nearby restaurant. According to witness accounts he briefly leaned forward at 10:10 p.m. and then triggered the explosion.
About 2,500 people were attending the three-day open-air concert was underway. It was shut down as a precaution after the explosion.
Bavarian public broadcaster Bayerische Rundfunk reported that 200 police officers and 350 rescue personnel were brought in.
The explosion came as Germany, and the southern state of Bavaria in particular, have been on edge.
Earlier Sunday, a Syrian man killed a woman with a machete and wounded two others outside a bus station in the southwestern city of Reutlingen before being arrested. Police said there were no indications pointing to terrorism and the attacker and the woman worked together in the same restaurant. Polish authorities said she was a Polish citizen.
Two days earlier, a man went on a deadly rampage at a Munich mall, killing nine people and leaving dozens wounded.
And an ax attack on a train near Wuerzburg last Monday wounded five. A 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker was shot and killed by police as he fled the scene. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
These attacks came shortly after a Tunisian man driving a truck killed 84 people when he plowed through a festive crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, along the famed French Riviera.
In Munich on Sunday evening, 1,500 people gathered at the scene of the shooting there, lighting candles and placing flowers in tribute to the victims of an 18-year-old mall terrorist. Police said that he had planned the attack for a year.
Munich authorities said Monday at a news conference that a 16-year-old Afghan friend of the Munich attacker may have known of the attack in advance.
Police said Monday the teenager was arrested late Sunday and investigators were able to retrieve a deleted chat between him and the attacker on the messaging app WhatsApp.
Police say that from the chat it appears that the 16-year-old met with the attacker immediately before the attack at the scene of the rampage – a mall in Munich – before the attack. He also knew the attacker had a pistol.
Investigators say the two teenagers met last year as in-patients at a psychiatric ward. Both were being treated for online game addiction, among other things.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
Angela Merkel told Europe that the middle east “refugees” are fun and cool. Horrors in France, Belgium, Germany in recent times tells us otherwise. Open borders is one the main reasons why Britain voted out of the EU. Europe does little to combat these haters. All we see are guys and gals in skinny jeans placing flowers on makeshift memorials.
Notice how sparsely populated Saudi Arabia takes in none of their co-religionists. Folks in the west who show concern about letting in folks from hater cultures are called xenophobic. Folks who hate everyone who isn’t like them and treat women like dirt are called “refugees from a peaceful culture” by the politically correct.
Yes, the politically correct, led by politicians are destroying Europe and the rest of the Christian world… it’s time that we stand out for common sense and protect ourselves from those who consider us as infidels, and. From those who believe that being “politically correct” is the right thing to be.
Trump is correct to deport them now and if they refuse they are put on a boat in the ocean to nowhere
I agree.
This youtube video shows a different story for what will happen in Europe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vzMNG2fZc
We are just opening ourselves to terrorism and troubles by not having any borders. Islamic terrorism comes directly from Prophet Muhammad and Islam.
As more Muslims come here, we can expect more terrorism. There’s always lots of problems and religious violence wherever there are many Muslims.
Just look closely at the Muslim majority countries. Look closely at those Western nations which allowed large numbers of Muslims to come. Rapes in Sweden increased by 1,500% since the influx of Muslims.
We need to halt Muslim migration and ban Islam. That’s the only way to contain terrorism. Otherwise, terror attacks will just continue to increase.
The more terrorist attacks that occur anywhere in the world, the better it makes Trump’s immigration policies sound. After a few more attacks in this country and ‘The Donald’ could well be a shoe in.
Even the Rainbow Coalition could throw their support behind Trump. (so to speak)
Winston Churchill warned his countrymen about Nazism for 10 years but was totally ignored until Germany attacked Britain.
People who warn the West about the dangers of Islam are ignored and condemned as racists, islamaphobes, bigots etc…
Politically correctness and the great white guilt are destroying Western civilisation.
Common sense and firmness are needed in dealing with Islam and Muslims.
We urgently need to ban Islam and Muslim migration.
The big mistake is welcoming people from these “hating” cultures into their country. It’s like a rooster inviting a wolf into the hen house for shelter and being surprised when he kills most of the chickens. Wake up folks.
These people are NOT your friend and do not WANT to be your friend either. They want all the advantages your culture has to offer and eventually to take over your cities and country.. Much like the aliens in the movie Independence Day, who wanted to take over the world until they had killed the occupants and devoured the food supply and then to move on to destroy another world. These people you are admitting to your country want just that…to destroy your culture and your country and then to move on to take another. Send them home!
BLOOD ALL OVER THE WORLD. BECAUSE STUPID POLITICIANS
LIKE THE ONES IN GERMANY AND U.S.A.
MY VOTE IS FOR DONALD TRUMP…
TELL HILLARY CLINTON, THIS IS THE PRICE THAT PEOPLE HAVE TO PAID
FOR HER STUPIDITY IN HELPING MUSLIMS COME TO AMERICA.
Thankyou, so called LEADERS, for bringing TERROR to our lands. We have many incompetent people running this world. We need a godly revolution over our lands. We need to spread love,peace and harmony. Don’t let the evil elite do this to us. God Bless our world!!
We need to convince her Loyal Followers about the terrorists that invaded our country. Hillary already knows, because she’s part of the plan and the NWO. The next couple months is up to us,not Mr. Trump, to turn the minds of the HOBOTS of Hillary Clinton. Research credible websites that have credible info on Hillary and Bills scandals. Make copies and give them to people that you know are HOBOTS. Leave them in places where your allowed to leave information. Have a party with some of your HOBOT friends, serve grilled hot dogs with Hillarys name on it. Have a cake with TRUMP written on it. So many wonderful ideas out there. We need to help and we need to do it now.
It’s awful….
That someone who is in Europe entered for protection now committed suich a heinous act and wounded a large number of people, which is the home, some hard.
It’s open-door policy towards refugees frau:Markel that allowed the entry of more than one million refugees in Germany in the past year fleeing wars:Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq!!!!!
Zinka —- come off it !!!! These people aren’t coming to these countries for protection — they are coming to destroy them. This is all very well planned and documented by the islamist cult. Politicians who have made TERRIBLE decisions to allow even 1 stinking muslim into their country under the pretense of running away from violence, should be tried for treason against their own country and citizens. This is a scam of enormous magnitude and people like this merkel,obozo,clinton are aiding and abetting these radicals coming to these countries. They all should be tried and executed.
Gerry : absolutely true, these sick minds are global terrorist and destroyers of civilization and all that is worth…..
Angela Merkel is just another Globalist agenda shill.. Plain and simple…
Ken-
i agree; not absolutely certain what the globalist agenda is concerning the flood of alien-culture refugees pouring into Western countries, but suspect it’s along the lines of the ancient “divide and conquer” strategy. By stirring up strife in otherwise(mostly) peaceful, homogeneous countries, fear, distrust, anxiety, and anger may be stirred up among the native populations against the refugees – and apparently, the vast majority of these are actually peaceful(or seemingly so; it’s possible that they may also be awaiting a Signal to simultaneously arise and begin a slaughter, too).
This is one of the major reasons why i support Trump; i seem to recall him saying that America should implement a temporary ban on ALL immigration until the entire strategy can be reviewed – and corrected, where necessary – instead of going along with The Liar’s insane policy of INCREASING the numbers of these Muslim refugees by 550% WITHOUT VETTING THEM!
Talk about a recipe for disaster – but perhaps Merkel and The Liar are taking their orders from the same globalist camp…seems increasingly probable.
A few separate cases have shown how much blood and disuster one Syrian could cause. Obama, former member of America hating Churche, is letting in thousands of Syrians. His disciple, Hillary Clinton has already blood of Benghazi on her hands, will not will not too behind him in bringing disasters to America.
“In Munich on Sunday evening, 1,500 people gathered at the scene of the shooting there, lighting candles and placing flowers in tribute to the victims of an 18-year-old mall terrorist. Police said that he had planned the attack for a year.”
As long as this is the stupid, insipid western response to Planned Islamic Terrorism, then we can continue to listen to Our Elitist Traitorous Rulers offer their prayers and thoughts to the mourning family members. Quite frankly these Putz Sheeples deserve Exactly what they are getting foe Welcoming the Terrorists into their countries with open arms.
How many terrorist attacks did Germany have the past few days? The attack at the McDonalds Germany says was a simple shooter, that’s all?
Even if that is true what about the other recent attacks? All this is what 0bama wants to do to the US? I have a bevy of 4 letter words but I won’t use them here. 0bama is evil that I’m sure of.
Born poor, having grown up in a very diverse integrated slum and gang filled area of Brooklyn, ONE LEARNS THE ART OF LIVING WITH DEFENSE MECHANISMS IN PLACE. Such defense mechanisms include PROFILING (be it racial, religious, nationality, personal appearance and dress, etc. I survived by having street smarts. At 68, I still profile, to include Muslims in their native dress, anyone wearing a “HOODIE” (even if he could be “Obama’s son) etc. While the stupid bitch has NO INTENTIONS OF PROTECTING AMERICA, I was eye-witness to 9/11, when NY was like a war zone. WHERE WAS THE STUPID BITCH? Surrounded and protected by GUN-CARRYING SECRET SERVICE, IN A BUNKER? She accuses Trump of scaring Americans with FEAR? Well New Yorkers were all afraid!!!! And PTS lingers! You don’t put your hand in a fire a second time and expect a different result—-you get burned again and again. You don’t trust refugees into the country! WAKE UP!
False religions teach that “Hell” is where you go if you have led a bad life. Of course there is no Hell but if there were one we are all experiencing it here on earth right now. In fact, if you consider the signs of the “end times” Jesus spoke of in his prophecy in Matthew 24, all of those things we are experiencing are mentioned there and Christ’s apostles consistently agreed with him in their writings. For example, the apostle John foretold (in Revelation) that these things were exactly why Almighty God would have to intervene…”to put to ruin those ruining the earth.”–Revelation 11:18
It would not matter which world leader becomes elected or comes to power by force. They all are advocates of the Devil’s form of rule since it is by his power that they come to be installed as rulers. That is why Jesus’ answer to Pontias Pilate on the charge of sedition is of key importance to true Christians. He said, “MY KINGDOM IS NO PART OF THIS WORLD.” And that is why real Christians neither participate in or look up to political representatives of world governments for deliverance or salvation from the troubles that plague mankind. There is one and only one answer that people have been praying for…praying for thousands of years without understanding what they are praying for. That solution, in the Lord’s prayer at Matthew 6:9,10, is God’s kingdom.
Dave-
Christ’s kingdom is IN the world, it is simply not “of” the world. Many indeed have found the Kingdom right where Christ said it is found – within – and in the Gospel of Thomas, He says that “The Kingdom is spread out over all the earth, but men do not see it.”
If you’re familiar with the writings of any of the Christian mystics – say, Meister Eckardt to Thomas Merton – you would know this to be a fact.
Maybe we need to consider that the problem is the religion. These murderers have been indoctrinated by radical imams who teach that it is okay to brutally murder people and they will get an instant ticket to paradise for their dastardly act. The murderer thinks they are going to have 72 whores waiting for them and that they can fornicate with them for eternity. I guess if a person is big enough of a loser then murdering innocent people in hopes of getting to commit sexual immorality for all eternity may sound like a good deal.
Europe has to remain as Europe,USA as USA , every country has its own culture and religion. I cant understand why these great European leaders and Obama / Clinton’s are rolling out the red carpet to people with fixed mindsets who hate western culture.
I hope and pray that Mr. Trump wins big, that’s the only hope for Americans most of whom don’t know the deep cultural and religious mindsets of a majority of these people who are brainwashed right from childhood to believe that their religion and culture is supreme. Wake up you lousy European leaders, Hungary took the correct stand and didn’t allow or roll out the red carpet to these unknown refugees . I would suggest keeping them temporarily comfortable in refugee camps and maintaining their DATA BANK by taking their photographs and fingerprints , blood group, and then issue them a refugee identity card which would also require them to compulsarilly report to the concerned law enforcing authorities.
German people used to be regarded as being very intelligent. The fact that they have not removed angela merkel from office and are allowing her to continue importing muslims from countries which harbor terrorists causes me to believe that they are no longer very bright. She should be impeached. But then the German people could probably say the same thing about us Americans not being very intelligent either.
Islam is not a legitimate religion; it fails the fundamental principles of peace & tolerance. No nation should allow them to have consideration as a religion. The Qu’ran requires all muslims to “subjugate or exterminate” all non-muslims. Even the peaceful shuni muslims are subjugated by the violent sharia muslims. BO-BS (Barak Obama – Barry Soetoro) & spouse -should be given a shared faulty parachute drop over Kenya at night.
I will vote for Trump. Hillary is so phony. She wants to have more gun control, no guns. Does this mean we should depend on the government for protection if she is elected? I guess this means she is going to give up her secret service protection. If everything is so wonderful and safe in America she doesn’t need any protection. She will say anything to get a vote. God is in control, but at the same time He gave us the ability to make choices and to be able to think things through so that we can make informed decisions. We will be held accountable for our vote. If we vote for a candidate that is going to pass laws that we as Christians know to be against the will of God we will be held accountable. I stand with God first and then my country.