Ansbach explosives attack

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BrandRingRot.svg  Red marking: the location of the explosion.
☐ Purple   square: the event area.
① Entry point / ticket control at Pfarrstraße.
② Admission point at Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Platz.

The explosives attack in Ansbach on July 24, 2016 was an Islamist terrorist attack in the old town of Ansbach . There the 27-year-old Syrian asylum seeker Mohammed Daleel ( Arabic محمد دليل) a backpack bomb in front of a wine bar , injuring 15 people and killing himself. The assassin had lived in Germany for two years and had connections to the terrorist militia “ Islamic State ” (IS).

Sequence of events

The place in front of the wine bar where the bomb attack occurred.
The gate served as access to the Ansbach Open Festival, which took place on the area in the background. The attack was carried out on the square in the foreground, on this side of the passage.

On the last day of the three-day music festival Ansbach Open , which is held annually in the Central Franconian district capital Ansbach , on a Sunday, the assassin tried to get to the festival site (street name Reitbahn ) at the Ansbach residence as a backpack bomber . The entrance controls were strengthened in response to the attack in Munich in 2016 . At the chosen entrance near the wine bar Eugens Weinstube he was turned away because he did not show an admission ticket. At a second sluice behind the ticket control, security personnel searched the pockets of all visitors.

As investigations later revealed, the perpetrator was in lively chat contact with a person from the Middle East at this point in time and subsequently . The following sections of the unencrypted chat are known (in a sense and literal): Daleel: “Security guards are standing in front of the entrance. I can't get in 'so easily'. ”Contact person:“ Find a 'loophole'. ”Daleel:“ I can't find one. ”Contact person:“ Then just break through. ”Contact person further:“ 'Take a photo of explosives' ".

Daleel turned away and briefly entered the wine tavern, which, contrary to its other closing regulations, was open on the festival Sunday. In their bewirtetem outdoor area where guests were staying about 20 time of the crime, exploded - perhaps accidentally - at 22:12 to be self-made and the explosiveness ago rather weak explosives , the bomber himself was seriously injured. It was actually planned (according to the current state of the investigation) that he should park the backpack in a crowd of people at the festival and ignite it remotely. His chat contact had asked him to film the detonation and the subsequent inferno and send it to the IS.

A subsequent resuscitation of the assassin was successful, but shortly afterwards he succumbed to his injuries. 15 other people were injured, 4 of them seriously, none of them life-threatening.

Actions and Investigations

The Ansbach Open Festival was canceled in consultation with the organizers, and the approximately 2500 visitors left the venue. A crisis team was set up and at least 200 police officers and around 350 rescue workers and firefighters were on site.

For further investigations, the more than 30-strong Soko Ansbach special commission of the investigative authorities was formed, which was supported on site by other emergency services. On July 25, the federal prosecutor responsible for terrorist suspicions took over the investigation. One of the reasons for the investigation is suspicion of membership in a foreign terrorist organization .

The Bavarian Police switched a number for witness references and also asked to make photos, videos and audio recordings of the location and the surroundings of the open-air event available to them and to upload them via the police's upload portal.

Perpetrator

Mohammed Daleel was a 27-year-old Syrian living in the Hotel Christl in Ansbach , which had been converted into refugee accommodation at the time of his death .

Daleel entered Bulgaria illegally via Turkey in July 2013, where he had applied for asylum . According to the head of the Bulgarian refugee agency , Petya Parvanova , he received subsidiary protection in December 2013 . In spring or mid-2014 he left Bulgaria and came to Austria , where he was picked up and initially applied for asylum, but then traveled on to Germany. Here he submitted an asylum application in August 2014, which was rejected because of the older applications in Bulgaria and Austria. In 2015 he was supposed to be deported to Bulgaria. Daleel scratched the surface of his arm twice, each of which was considered a suicide attempt . In January 2015 he was therefore in inpatient treatment in the psychiatry of the district clinic in Ansbach ; then there again until May 2015.

Harald Weinberg , member of the Bundestag for Die Linke , advocated Daleel's right to stay for the duration of his medical treatment in Germany in response to a request from a refugee organization . By decision of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees on February 19, 2015, Daleel's threat of deportation was lifted for the time being due to the submitted certificates of mental instability. He received a toleration . Daleel had appeared under criminal law in Germany for drug and coercion offenses. The criteria for expulsion under the Residence Act (Sections 53 to 55 of the Residence Act) were not met.

After his stay in the clinic, he was in trauma therapy approved by the city of Ansbach with an alternative practitioner who, according to the judicial assessment, “did not have the necessary specialist knowledge and expertise for medical issues and diseases”. The therapy was suspended from February 2016 due to uncertainties regarding the assumption of costs.

On July 13, 2016, eleven days before the attack, Daleel received another request to leave Germany within 30 days. If the departure deadline was not met, they were threatened with deportation to Bulgaria. His psychotherapy should have resumed on August 1st .

After the attack, materials that could be used to build bombs were found in the perpetrator's home. On one of his cell phones was a video in Arabic - published by the IS propaganda department - in which a masked person “announced the attack in Ansbach, among other things” and “his affiliation with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , the leader of the so-called 'Islamic State ', testifies ”. The attorney general suspected by the current status of investigations, that this is the person is the assassin himself. As with other confessional videos of the IS, there are doubts in security circles that the speaker wrote the text himself because the video “is ambitious in terms of content and language” and it “gets confused in some places”.

The Bavarian Minister of the Interior, Joachim Herrmann , stated after the confessional video appeared, "It [is] indubitable that the attack is a terrorist attack with an Islamist background and the perpetrator's Islamist convictions". The disguise in the confessional video and that Daleel had other bomb construction material are - besides the content of the chat - indications that he should carry out further attacks. The authorities assume that his death was an accident caused by the explosive device exploding prematurely.

Reactions

The terrorist militia “Islamic State” “confessed” to the attack on July 27 through its mouthpiece Amaq and claimed that Daleel was one of its “soldiers”. She also published a brief alleged biography of the assassin. The Federal Prosecutor's Office said: "We are aware of the paper and we are in the process of verifying the information."

context

In France and Germany, the Ansbach bomb attack resulted in five attacks within twelve days that attracted a great deal of public attention:

After each of these events, with the exception of the attack in Munich, the terrorist militia “Islamic State” claimed that the attacker (s) were close to IS or that they were their “soldiers”. The attack in Munich had no Islamist background.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pfarrstrasse 35; Photo from September 2013
  2. ↑ riding arena 1; Photo from 2013
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  24. ↑ In Bulgaria referred to as "humanitarian protection" [1] . This status does not allow (unlike recognition as a refugee) to travel within the EU without a visa.
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  40. ^ Matthias Gebauer: Attacks in Bavaria: Saudi Arabia offers help with investigations. In: Spiegel Online. SPIEGEL ONLINE, August 6, 2016, accessed October 9, 2016 .
  41. ^ For evidence, see the attack in Nice , the attack in Munich on July 22, 2016 , the attack near Würzburg and the attack in Saint-Étienne

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