Germany has been spared major Islamist attacks but in May, a mentally unstable 27-year-old man wielding a knife killed one person and injured three others on another Bavarian regional train.
Early reports had suggested he had yelled “Allahu akbar” but police later said there was no evidence pointing to a political motive. He is being held in a psychiatric hospital.
In February, a 15-year-old girl of Turkish origin stabbed a policeman in the neck with a kitchen knife at Hanover train station in what prosecutors later said was a Daesh-inspired attack.
And police in April arrested two 16-year-olds over an explosion that wounded three people at a Sikh temple, in what was believed to be an Islamist-motivated assault against an Indian wedding party in the western city of Essen.
Bavaria is governed by the Christian Social Union, sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats, which had been vocal in criticizing Merkel’s welcoming stance toward refugees.
The number of refugees arriving in Germany has fallen sharply as a result of the closure of the Balkans migration route and an EU deal with Turkey to stem the flow.
Merkel’s popularity has rebounded recently as a result but the Bavaria attack is likely to rekindle political tensions.
Herrmann, however, warned against tarring all asylum seekers with the same brush.
“It is undisputed that he was a refugee and if he hadn’t been there, he wouldn’t have committed this act. But I don’t think that we should make blanket judgments in any way about refugees.”

Source: Arab  News