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'Terrorist Accomplice' In Anis Amri Berlin Attack Deported, According To Report
2019-02-26
[DW] Germany deported a key suspect in the 2016 Berlin Christmas market attack before he was questioned, according to leaked documents. But authorities denied reports that Bilel Ben Ammar worked for Moroccan intelligence.

German authorities deported a Moroccan secret agent to hide his involvement in the December 2016 Christmas market attack in Berlin, according to an internal document leaked to the German magazine Focus.

However, sources within German security forces have since told public broadcaster ARD that they had no evidence that Ammar worked for any foreign intelligence agency, and were angered at the suggestion that German authorities may have protected him.

Bilel Ben Ammar, himself considered a radical Islamist who was once believed to be planning a separate attack in Berlin, was an associate of Anis Amri,
...the very connected known wolf who’d been in and out of European prisons since arriving in 2011, then registered for asylum in 2015 under at least 14 names. When his asylum request was finally rejected, he decided to make the Germans pay before they got around to deporting him, after which he fled to the comforting arms of his fellows in Italy. Quite a few of his connections from Berlin's ISIS-linked "Fussilet" mosque and elsewhere were subsequently arrested as well...
the Tunisian man who drove a stolen truck into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin. The attack killed 12 people, injuring 60 more, while Amri himself was killed by police a few days later in Italy.

According to the document seen by Focus, Ammar met Amri a day before the attack, and took photos of the market in its aftermath, which he sent to an unknown phone number two hours later.

Ammar may even have helped the attacker to escape; CCTV footage mentioned in the document showed a man "with the appearance of Ben Ammar" hit a man on the head with a piece of wood in order to clear a path for the escaping attacker. The man is still in a coma now, Focus reported.

All this would be new evidence for the parliamentary committee tasked with investigating the attack, whose members have no knowledge of the video, though they did not rule out that it exists.
Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660

#2  More leaks (link to German language article):

High ranking officials in the interior ministry, one of whom is the current German ambassador to the US, discussed Ben Ammars's swift deportation in January of 2017, according to leaked emails.

Speedy deportation was favored because the circumstances (Ben Ammar had assumed 12 identities in Germany) of the case would lay the foundation for 'incitement' i.e. for valid and devastating criticism of Merkel's political decisions.

Also it was revealed that, for unknown reasons, German federal police was ordered to stop looking for Ben Ammar from November 26 2016 onwards. This order was given at the request of the Berlin's state police's islamism department.

Some well informed entity is leaking ... yuugely.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2019-02-26 13:36  

#1  Apparently someone is leaking new information concerning the Berlin attack to the German press.

Is this the Trump administrations response to the release of Yilmaz?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2019-02-26 08:23  

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