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Berlin attack: Anis Amri's nephew and two more arrested
[Al Jazeera] Tunisia has juggedDrop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! the nephew of Anis Amri, the Berlin attack suspect, and two others linked to him, according to the North African nation's interior ministry. The three suspects - aged between 18 and 27 - were arrested in a police raid on Friday in the central province of Kairouan, where Amri's home town is located, the ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Amri's nephew has confessed to Tunisian authorities that he had been in contact with his uncle via Telegram, a messaging service, and that Amri had asked him to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) group, the statement said. The nephew has also said that Amri sent him money by post to enable him to travel to Germany, where the Berlin attack suspect was living at the time. At least 12 people were killed when a truck drove into a Christmas market in the German capital on Monday. Claims of incompetence Amri was killed in Italia's Milan on Friday following a Europe-wide manhunt, prompting accusations of incompetence at German officials for allowing Amri to cross borders. Germany's top security official has denied charges that authorities bungled an investigation into Amri, who had also been watched by security officials previously as he was suspected of terrorism and plotting a robbery to steal arms. "To speak about a failure by the security authorities would be inappropriate," Thomas de Maiziere, interior minister, told Germany's Bild newspaper on Saturday. "However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... we will of course analyse the case meticulously and release a corresponding report." Amri, a 24-year-old, had been living in Germany as an asylum seeker. He was killed after he whipped out a rod and shot an Italian officer in the shoulder during a routine police check. Hundreds of German Sherlocks are now investigating how Amri managed to flee the country after the attack and whether he may have had accomplices or a support network that helped him escape. ISIS, also known as ISIS, grabbed credit for the attack. In a video released by its Amaq website on Friday, a man it claims is Amri pledges allegiance to the head of the group and pledges Dire Revenge for Moslems. Heightened security Amri has been linked by German authorities to Abu Walaa, a preacher and the suspected head of an organization that provided logistical and financial support to ISIS from western Germany. Abu Walaa, an Iraqi national, was arrested in November. A front man for the Berlin police said Saturday that there would be an increased presence of uniformed and plainclothes officers on the city's streets over the Christmas holidays. The 12 victims of Monday's attack include seven Germans, as well as an Italian, a Czech, a Ukrainian, an Israeli and a Polish national. Posted by: Fred 2016-12-25 |
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