This is the third such event I’ve reported on in the last day, and the second in Germany. All I know is what my CNN news feed tells me:
An explosion occurred in Ansbach, Germany, Sunday evening, according to German media.
At least one person is dead and as many as 10 others are wounded, German media is reporting.
I’m dismayed, fatigued, disheartened, saddened, scared, angry, exasperated, and fed up by all these occurrences.
Terrifying.
OK, terrorism or insanity?
Likely terrorism in this case (as opposed to the MD mass murder). It is still speculation, but after the first reports of a gas leak accident, the local authorities changed to a suicide bomb.
“The Associated Press ✔ @AP
BREAKING: Police say man, a likely attacker, dies in explosion in southern Germany; 10 others injured.
1:45 AM – 25 Jul 2016”
[ http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/en-person-dod-efter-explosion-i-tyskland/ ]
Actually, the remaining reports seems to place it as an insanity deed.
It is, like the machete killer, now claimed to be a person with no known connections to Daesh. [ https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/25/ansbach-explosion-german-town-deliberate-blast-latest ]
But he was a rejected Syrian asylum seeker with a history of making attempts on his life, and used a self demolition device. [Ibid.]
So like the machete killer it looks like the inspiration to the means came from religious terrorism. Not the right wing terrorism like the MacDonald shooter.
This week in Germany:
Religious terrorism – right wing terrorism 3 – 1 ?
Meanwhile the stupid ID border controls stranded 1,000 Swedes as they left Beyonce’s Danish concert.
This week in Sweden:
Religious terrorism – right wing terrorism 1 – 0.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36880758
According to BBC, the one fatality is the suspected attacker.
Police assume it was a bomb attack directed at a music festival attended by 2 500 people.
The presumed terrorist carrying a rucksack had been denied entry to the festival grounds. Shortly afterwards explosives detonated nearby.
The person killed is believed to be the culprit (the destroyed rucksack has been found).
http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/in-der-innenstadt-schwere-explosion-in-ansbach_id_5759057.html
The barbarians are at the gates and they have been invited in.
I don’t understand this comment.
Oh, I see. I think it is commentary on how people will blame refugees.
I don’t think it was a commentary on people blaming refugees. Frank Bath was actively blaming refugees.
P.S. The BBC confirms that the bomber was a Syrian refugee.
This attempted ‘asylum seeker’ was denied, but permitted to given temporary leave to remain in Germany because of the war in Syria.
I would suspect that he was denied access to the festival because he refused the security checks and detonated the bomb.
Now then, what part is confusing you?
Or do you not believe that that a failed asylum seeker who is carrying a bomb in a rucsac and who detonates it to cause maximum carnage is a terrorist, and therefore a barbarian?
BBC confirms him to be another Syrian refugee.
Again, I say it’s playing right into the hands of the far right in Germany, all over Europe, and I’ll bet it’ll be big here in the future Trumplandia.
People WILL blame refugees. More than they have before. The left, of course, will attempt to say it is a mistake to turn them away, remind us of the refugee crisis of WWI, WWII, but those arguments will mean less and less after each attack.
Another tragedy in the name of something or other.
Exactly. People are so convinced that they have urgent and unassailable reasons for killing other people. Nothing could be further from the truth.
This is becoming quite depressing. 🙁
It’s going to feed Trump’s anti-immigrant politics.
And I have a question: If they are not tied to terrorist organizations, where do they learn to make such a bomb and how do they get the ingredients? Or is all that available on the internet?
of course it must be its just we’re biased and racist in only remembering instances where its been used by Islamists. That said we don’t know (or i haven’t seen) further details on this as to what the perpetrators motives were.
From what we are seeing, Trump isn’t that wrong on the immigration issue. If other aspiring tenants of the White House had promised control of immigration, particularly Muslim immigration, fewer voters would flock behind Trump. The more I hear about this gentleman, the less I like him. I also think he will renege on his promise, because he is a habitual liar. But I cannot blame US voters who wish to use any chance to avoid the fate of Europe.
I just returned Saturday from two weeks in Bad Mergentheim, Germany. Bad Mergentheim lies between Würzburg and Ansbach. While there, a music rock concert was held in the schloss. All entering the concert were funneled through four turnstiles and backpacks were prohibited. Security was very high. This was mostly likely the same in Ansbach. Inside the venue, large sign marked the panic exits and funneled people, if necessary, away from the area. I can only assume that it was the same in Ansbach and that is why the bomber was not permitted entry.
I read he was refused entry to a rock concert of 2,500 people and then blew himself up outside it
And so on ad-infinitum…..
Islamist videos on Syrian bomber phone
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36882831