NBC News, August 24, 2016
MAINZ, Germany — A week-long spate of violent attacks this summer — including two involving migrants — has triggered debate about potentially deploying troops on Germany's streets for the first time since World War II.
A July 18 ax and knife attack by an ISIS-inspired 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker aboard a train near Wuerzburg left five people seriously injured. It also raised questions about whether new security measures were needed in Germany.
Six days later, a Syrian failed asylum-seeker blew himself up outside a popular music festival in the southern city of Ansbach, wounding dozens. Authorities later said said he had pledged allegiance to ISIS in a video.
"Islamic terror has reached Germany," Bavaria's state interior minister Winfried Bausback wrote on Facebook following that attack.
A teen's shooting rampage at a mall in Munich on July 22 was not linked to any terrorist group but also rattled nerves across the country.
Europe's economic powerhouse took in 2.1 million immigrants last year — the equivalent of the city of Houston, Texas. Refugees made up more than half of that total — including many who survived perilous journeys across the Mediterranean Sea after fleeing conflict zones including Syria.
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