The Syrian refugee who blew himself up on Sunday night in the country’s first jihadi suicide bombing had pledged his allegiance to Isis and threatened revenge attacks against Germans, the authorities said.
Joachim Herrmann, Bavaria’s interior minister, said the bomber, who blew himself up in the Bavarian city of Ansbach, was a 27-year-old refugee from Syria. He had filmed himself on his mobile phone threatening violence against Germans and pledging allegiance to Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
A statement on the organisation’s Amaq news agency described him as a “soldier of IS”, and said he had carried out the “operation” in response to its call to target states involved in the anti-Isis military coalition.