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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.
The three-day open-air concert was underway,
with about 2,500 in attendance. 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. The Islamic IS group 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
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of an 18-year-old German-Iranian. 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.
After the Munich attack, Herrmann urged the German government to allow the country’s military
to be deployed to support police during attacks.
Germany’s post-war constitution, because of the
excesses of the Nazi era, only allows the military
to be deployed domestically in cases of national
emergency.
Herrmann has called those regulations obsolete
and said that Germans have a “right to safety.”
In January, Bavaria’s justice minister launched a
state program in Ansbach meant to teach refugees
the basics of law in their new host country. The initiative came amid growing tensions and concerns
in Germany about how it would integrate the estimated 1 million-plus migrants it registered crossing
into the country last year.
Classes include lessons about freedom of opinion,
the separation of religion and state and the equality
of men and women.
“Germany is an attractive country because it respects the dignity of every human being,” an educational film shown to newcomers said, “and it is
supposed to stay that way.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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