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Berlin Truck Attacker 'Considered Going to Rome'
 [AnNahar] Suspected Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri considered heading to Rome before finally plumping for Milan where police shot him dead, Italian media reported Friday. The Corriere della Sera daily said that security cameras at Turin station had twice recorded the 24-year-old searching for trains either to Rome or Milan. "In the end, he chose a regional train for Lombardy because at that late hour, there was no train going to the capital," said the paper, adding that this showed he had "no precise travel plan." Several papers also reported that when he arrived in Milan in the early hours of December 23, Amri asked a passer-by where he could catch a train or bus for "Rome, Naples or the south." Sesto San Giovanni, the town north of Milan where Amri was eventually shot, is the starting point for international coaches to Spain, Morocco, Albania or southern Italia. Local Rome daily Il Messaggero said it was "not a coincidence" that he was eying the capital as that city was where he "probably had the most contacts." Amri had close links to Italia, arriving there in 2011 from Tunisia after the revolution that led to the Arab Spring. Man wrongly arrested for Berlin attack fears for family: Report [AlAhram] The Pak man wrongly incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! for the Berlin truck attack on Friday said he had told German police he could not even drive and was now afraid for the safety of his family back home. Naveed Baloch, an asylum-seeker from the troubled province of Balochistan  ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , told the Guardian newspaper he had just left a friend's house and was crossing a street when he saw a police car approaching fast and picked up his pace. He said he was arrested and taken to a cop shoppe, where he was undressed and photographed. "When I resisted, they started slapping me," the 24-year-old, who has been living in a secret location provided by police since his release because he says he is afraid for his life, told the British daily. Baloch, who sought refuge in Germany as a member of a secular separatist movement in Balochistan, said he struggled to communicate because no translator could be found who could speak his native Balochi. "I calmly told them I cannot drive at all. Neither can I even start a vehicle," he said. Baloch was arrested on December 19 in the hours after the attack on a Christmas market in the heart of Berlin in which 12 people were killed. Police released him 24 hours later, after failing to find evidence of his involvement. Baloch, a shepherd by profession, told the daily that members of his family in the village of Mand in Balochistan in southwest Pakistain had received threatening phone calls following his arrest. "Now they all know I fled to Germany, fearful of my life, and that I am claiming asylum here. It leaves my family very vulnerable and there's nothing I can do to protect them," he told the Guardian. Baloch said he left Pakistain around a year ago, arriving in Germany via Iran, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Greece, because of death threats he had received for his activism for the Baloch National Movement. "Most of the people I worked with have been arrested and killed. I knew it was a matter of time before they came for me. That's the reason I came to Germany," he said. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-12-31 |
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