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'Gross Mistakes' in Run Up to Berlin Christmas Attack
2017-10-13
Long-after-action report.
[AnNahar] An investigation into a jihadist truck rampage through a Berlin Christmas market pointed Thursday to a catalog of "gross mistakes" by security services in the lead-up to the deadly attack.

The scathing report found that authorities had missed several opportunities to arrest and deport the driver, Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri, long before the attack that claimed 12 lives last December.

The 24-year-old, who had previously been jugged
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
 in Italia, had been in touch with radical Islamists and sold drugs in Berlin, had managed to escape detection by skipping across German state lines and using different identities.

"Gross mistakes were made that should never have happened," said former prosecutor Bruno Jost in presenting the 72-page report.

Berlin police who had been tipped off that Amri was a potentially violent Islamist had conducted surveillance only on weekdays, taking off weekends and public holidays. And they dropped their observation altogether after the first few weeks.
Berlin police who had been tipped off that Amri was a potentially violent Islamist had conducted surveillance only on weekdays, taking off weekends and public holidays, he said.

And they dropped their observation altogether after the first few weeks, judging Amri to be just a small-time drug pusher.

Although Berlin police could have tossed in the slammer
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
 Amri on drugs charges, he slipped through the net largely because of miscommunications with the prosecution service, he said.

And after the attack, police doctored their records to try and cover up their shortcomings, a revelation that is subject to a criminal investigation.

Six months before the carnage in Berlin, Amri had been arrested in the southern city of Friedrichshafen carrying two fake Italian passports.

But he was held for just two days, although authorities could plausibly have "taken him out of circulation for three or four months," during which time he may have been expelled to Tunisia, Jost said.

Instead, Amri went on to stage the December 19 attack, murdering a Polish truck driver before he plowing the vehicle into a crowd, killing 11 more people and wounding almost 100.

Amri, who had sworn allegiance to 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group, was rubbed out days later by Italian police in Milan.
The cynical will note that the report was not released until after Angela Merkel won the recent election. Had this been known beforehand, no doubt AfD and the Free Democrats would have done better, and perhaps Bavaria's Christian Social Union, the more conservative sister party to Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, would have competed nationally -- or at least pushed harder about Frau Merkel's colonists.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Merkel didn't want any arrests f the gimmigrants she invited.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-10-13 08:31  

#1  The scathing report found that authorities had missed several opportunities to arrest and deport the driver

Leadership sets the tone. See West Point.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-10-13 07:09  

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