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| German police warned Anis Amri was planning a suicide attack nine months before Berlin Christmas market massacre | ||
| 2017-03-27 | ||
| [TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Police in Germany knew Anis Amri was planning a suicide kaboom nine months before he drove a lorry into a packed Christmas market in Berlin last December, killing 12 people, it has emerged. The German equivalent of CID warned in a confidential memo to regional authorities last March, that it has intercepted communications indicating Amri was planning a suicide attack, and recommended he be deported. But the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia ruled that an order to expel him was not legally enforcable.
"Our immediate reaction was please don’t let it be Amri," Mr Jacob told a parliamentary inquiry on Friday. Bild am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday published excerpts from an eight-page memo in which Mr Jacob’s office detailed the evidence Amri could be planning a suicide attack. It included an intercepted internet chat in which Amri told a contact he wanted to marry a "sister" in Germany, which the memo states is a known code for suicide attacks among jihadists. When his contact did not understand, Amri used the term "Dougma", another code for suicide attacks. The memo recommends Amri’s immediate deportation, saying this is "proportionate" to the danger. But at the time Amri’s application for asylum in Germany was still being considered, and the authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia, where he was registered, ruled he could not be deported. His claim was eventually rejected in June, but even then attempts to deport him ran into trouble because he had no valid indentity papers and his native Tunisia was disputing his nationality. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Known Wolf |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2017-03-27 09:26 |
| #1 A fine example of why treating terrorism as a criminal matter is a bad idea. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-03-27 01:13 |