The head of Germany's internal security service said on Monday that there was an indirect connection between last week's terrorist attacks on a chemical factory in France and a holiday resort in Tunisia.
“Isis has long been calling for attacks to be carried out,” Hans-Georg Maaßen told ARD's breakfast television show Morgenmagazin.
“We already have the impression that the young man in Lyon had been influenced by IS, just as in Sousse,” he said.
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There were ideological connections between the two which could be traced back to Isis, Maaßen added.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière will visit the site of the attack in which 38 people lost their lives, including at least one German.
De Maizière said that through his visit he hoped to showed his compassion for the victims and to stand with the people of Tunisia.
On Friday morning a 24-year-old student attacked a beach hotel in the resort town with a semi-automatic weapon. His assault ended when he himself was shot and killed.
The student is believed to have had Islamist sympathies. A Twitter post purporting to come from Isis took credit for the attack.
The Foreign Ministry confirmed on Saturday that at least one German was among the dead and that one had also been injured during the attack.
But Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier cautioned that further German victims could not be ruled out.
"Although we have managed to clear up the whereabouts of many German citizens we cannot compete rule out the possibility that other Germans may be among the victims,“ he said in a statement.
The foreign minister added that he called his British counterpart Philip Hammond to express his sympathy for the British holidaymakers who lost their lives.
At least 30 British citizens have been confirmed as victims. Also confirmed among the dead are one Irish citizen, a Portuguese and a Belgian.
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