A spate of killings over the weekend has left Germany in shock as police attempt to piece together the motives behind the attacks.
On Sunday (24 July), a 27-year old Syrian migrant who had failed to obtain asylum killed himself and injured 12 others after detonating a bomb at a music festival in Ansbach, in southern Germany.
The man is said to have attempted suicide twice before. He had also been admitted to psychiatric care, reports Deutsche Welle.
In Reutlingen, a city in ...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.