7/19/16, "German train attack: Afghan refugee 'had IS flag in room'," BBC
"A hand-painted flag of so-called
Islamic State has been found in the room of an Afghan refugee accused of
carrying out an axe and knife attack on a southern German train,
officials say.
He had shouted Allahu akbar" ("God is great"), a witness said.
The IS-linked Amaq news agency said the teenager was an IS "fighter"....
Joachim Herrmann, the interior minister of the state of Bavaria, told German TV the flag had been found among the teenager's belongings in his room in his foster home in the nearby town of Ochsenfurt....
The Afghan teenager, who had claimed asylum after travelling to Germany as an unaccompanied minor, had been living with the foster family since moving from a refugee centre in the town. Investigators are talking to the foster family.
Last year Germany registered more than one million migrants, including more than 150,000 Afghans, although the number has slowed dramatically this year since new EU measures were taken to stop the flow....
The attack comes days after a lorry ploughed into a crowd in Nice in France, killing 84 people. The self-styled Islamic State said one of its followers had carried out that attack."...
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