The man who detonated a bomb near a music festival on Sunday night was the subject of deportation proceedings, a spokesman for Germany’s interior ministry said Monday.
Spokesman Tobias Plate said the 27-year-old Syrian man was most recently told on July 13 that he would be deported. The first deportation notice was issued on Dec. 22, 2014. 
Plate said the man was to be deported to Bulgaria because he had submitted his first asylum request in the southeastern European country. He said Syrians can’t be deported directly to Syria because of the ongoing war there.
Police earlier said the still unnamed culprit tried to enter the site of a music festival but was barred for not having a ticket. He then detonated his bomb outside a cafe nearby, killing himself and wounding 12 others, had received two deportation notices.

Let's not generalize
Germany is reeling after a spate of bloody attacks in the south of the country in the last week.
Although refugees were suspected in three of the four assaults, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government warned against branding migrants a general security threat after the country let in a record 1.1 million asylum seekers last year.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere Balso said it would be wrong to put all refugees under general suspicion, “even if there are investigations in individual cases.”
The Funke newspaper group on Monday quoted him as saying: “We are currently talking about 59 investigations for possible links to terrorist structures, and that’s with many hundreds of thousands of newly arrived people.”
He added that in the overwhelming number of cases, reports turn out not to be true.
De Maiziere called for Germany’s borders to be better protected without preventing refugees from coming to the country by legal and safe means — “in reasonable numbers.”
He noted that in the Munich gun attack there was no indication that the perpetrator, the German-born son of Iranian asylum-seekers, had failed to integrate in German society.

What is know about the attackers
The failed Syrian asylum seeker who figured in Sunday’s explosion was found to have spent time in a psychiatric facility.
While the regional authorities said an there was “likely” a terrorist motive for the attack, interior ministry spokesman Plate later said there was as yet “no credible evidence” of a link to Islamic extremism.
The man who killed a Polish woman with a large kebab knife at a snack bar in the southwestern city of Reutlingen was also a Syrian refugee, but police said the incident did not bear the hallmarks of a “terrorist attack” and was more likely a crime of passion.
Three people were also injured in the assault, which ended when the 21-year-old assailant was deliberately struck by a BMW driver, believed to be the snack bar owner’s son, trying to stop the man. Responding police later arrested the attacker.
In last Thursday’s Munich shopping mall attack, the culprit was identified as David Ali Sonboly, 18, a German-Iranian. Sonboly shot dead nine people before turning the gun on himself.
Police said Sonboly was “obsessed” with mass killers like Norwegian right-wing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik and had no links to the Daesh group.
Munich authorities on Monday said a 16-year-old Afghan friend of Sonboly, who was arrested late Sunday, had known about the attack beforehand. Investigators were able to retrieve a deleted chat between him and the attacker on the messaging app WhatsApp.
Police say that from the chat it appears that the 16-year-old met with the attacker at the scene of the rampage — a mall in Munich — before the attack. He also knew the attacker had a pistol.
Investigators said the two teenagers met last year as in-patients at a psychiatric ward. Both were being treated for online game addiction, among other things.

Source: Arab News