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| Tunisian man released in Berlin Christmas attack case | |
| 2016-12-30 | |
| [DeutscheWelle] The 40-year-old was allowed to walk free on Thursday, after German authorities determined that he was not a "possible contact person for Anis Amri," front man Frauke Köhler told news hounds on Thursday. The man was detained a day before, after the authorities found his phone number stored in Amri's cell phone, which had been found at the scene of the Berlin attack. On December 19, the 24-year-old Tunisian citizen Amri drove a truck through a Christmas market in central Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 48. He is also believed to have killed the Polish driver of the truck he used. Contrary to some reports, the authorities discovered no knife wounds on the body. Preliminary info suggests that the 37-year-old Polish national died close to the time of the attack. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the full autopsy results are expected only in January. Investigators also retrieved a .22 caliber bullet from the cab of the truck. The caliber matches the weapon Amri used in the shootout with the police in Milan. The ballistic experts are currently performing tests to confirm the same gun was used in both incidents, Köhler said. The spokesperson also confirmed that a video in which Amri is seen pledging allegiance to 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.... was authentic. "We are coming to slaughter you, you pigs," Amri says in the apparently self-made video. German authorities are continuing their search for other suspects and accomplices. Also on Thursday, Italian police searched three houses in and around Rome where Amri may have spent time, a judicial source said.
Roberti said lone-wolf attackers like Amri needed the help of small-scale criminal networks, such as those in Italy and Spain, for logistical support including acquiring false documents. "From this point of view, Italy and Spain are the cradles," Roberti said. Amri's undetected passage to Italy, via France, from Germany after the attack, has prompted eurosceptic parties to call for the reintroduction of border controls that were removed by the continent's open-border Schengen pact. Italy tried to deport him to Tunisia after he completed a four-year jail term for attempting to set fire to a building, but Tunisian authorities refused to take him, so he was released from the centre. | |
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