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German Interior Ministry Allegedly Ignored Informant Close to 2016 Berlin Christmas Market Attacker
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Suspected ISIS* sympathiser Anis Amri killed 12 and maimed dozens more when he rammed a truck into a Christmas market in the German capital in 2016. A bombshell testimony by a German policeman in the country’s parliament suggests that authorities, including officials at the very top, simply let things slide.A criminal chief inspector from North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has raised mishandling allegations against the German Interior Ministry and the German Criminal Police Office, along with its Berlin branch, in his testimony to the investigative committee of the deadly 2016 terrorist attack on the Christmas market in Berlin. The man, whose identity remains concealed, reportedly said during questioning in the German parliament that an official from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) had told him that NRW's informant who had alerted Sherlocks about the attacker-to-be Anis Amri before, "creates too much work". The conversation allegedly happened on the side-lines of a meeting at the Federal Attorney General’s Office on 23 February 2016, months before the terror attack. He reportedly also told the witness that this opinion was shared at the "very top". Asked about who was meant by "top", the official allegedly said that it was the Interior Ministry ‐ or its then-head Thomas de Maizière, a member of Angela Merkel  ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... ’s Christian Democratic Union ‐ and the senior criminal director of the BKA's State Protection Department. According to the policeman, this conversation left him "stunned and shocked", prompting him to reach out to two prosecutors right away. He was reportedly under the impression that his colleague from the BKA, known to be a very competent official, had conveyed this opinion about Amri in the same way as it was given to him. Berlin Overlooked the Danger? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung cites the NRW policeman as saying that his office had made it clear to the central office and their colleagues in Berlin, where Amri often was at the time, that the informant was credible and had been working for them for many years. "If an informant, who was the only source of signals about the danger from Anis Amri, had been silenced, and if it was on the interior minister’s initiative, that would be a shattering scandal", Chairman of the Investigation Committee Benjamin Strasser said, noting that the questioning of ex-Interior Minister de Maizière has now become inevitable. Related: Daesh: 2019-11-14 Ammar al-Hakim stresses need to create fair electoral system Daesh: 2019-11-11 Azerbaijan Encroaches Into Georgian Territory Daesh: 2019-11-11 'I want to have my own car': American-born ISIS bride begs to return to US Related: Anis Amri: 2019-03-23 German police arrest 10 people on suspicion of planning Islamist attack Anis Amri: 2019-03-06 Berlin Christmas market attacker accomplice charged with bomb plot Anis Amri: 2019-02-27 Friend Of Berlin Truck Attacker In France During Nice Attack: Reports Related: Thomas de Maizière: 2017-12-19 Europe Thomas de Maizière: 2017-09-15 European Thomas de Maizière: 2017-05-31 German Interior Minister Praises Trump for Intel Cooperation Against Islamic Terrorism Posted by: Fred 2019-11-16 |
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