The suspect behind the Berlin Christmas Market Truck Attack was killed in a gunfight by police in Milan, Italy. A terrorist attack on 19 December 2016, during which a truck was driven into the Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, left 12 people dead and 56 others injured. The original truck driver, Łukasz Urban, was found shot dead in the passenger seat of the weaponized vehicle. A suspect was arrested, but then released due to lack of evidence; However, a third suspect, confirmed to be the actual perpetrator of the attack, was killed by Milan police.
Anis Amri
On December 21, 2016 police announced that details of the suspects identity was confirmed to be that of a Tunisian refugee when identification was found under the driver's seat of the truck; belonging to Anis Amri who was born in Tataouine (sounds a bit like Tatooine), Tunisia, in 1992. According to authorities, Amri entered Germany from Italy in 2015; belonging to a Salafist network so-called "Die Wahre Religion" (True Religion group) which grew around the recent apprehension of Abu-Walaa, a known ISIL recruiter who resided in Germany. Amri is described as being 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) tall, weighing approximately 75 kilograms (165 lb), with dark hair and brown eyes.
German wanted poster of Anis Amri.
Anis Amri arrived in Europe, sometime in 2011 for the first time on a refugee raft on board with other unidentified refugees at the island of Lampedusa; it's unknown if he arrived with his parents or with his siblings who remain unidentified as the investigation continues. However, he lied about his age pretending to be a minor and was placed in detention, or a temporary migrants reception center for criminal migrant minor refugees. While at the facility, Amri took part in uprisings, damaging property and injuring both staff and inmates in the process. Getting further into trouble was no problem for him when Amri "took part in a particularly violent riot, when the center was set on fire and several people were injured" and was sentenced for it and robbery[54] to four years in prison, which he served in two jails in Sicily. Although Amri was then released from prison in 2015, Tunisian authorities refused repatriation for the troubled migrant.
At the time, Amri arrived at Germany.
This was the facility in the island of Lampedusa where Amri set the fire.
Amri was sentenced to in absentia ((Trial in Absentia) imprisonment for five years reportedly on charges of aggravated theft with violence. His family claimed that he wasn't religious, but was radicalized in Italian jails; presumably by radicalized youths. Amri arrived at Germany, then applied for asylum in April 2016 and while there, he used several different aliases, claiming to be either a Egyptian, Syrian, and Lebanese citizen. It's also revealed that during this time in Germany, he scouted the country for potential recruits in a terrorist attack since Spring of this year and once was in the process of buying a pistol from an undercover police officer. Interestingly, he had been overheard of carrying out a terrorist attack by German intelligence, but decided not to arrest him because they deemed him an "errand boy". Meaning he was doing errands for radicalized migrants. Amri was involved in a bar brawl, drug dealing, and a knife attack over drugs in July 2016. However, Amri disappeared before police could question him.
The finality of this troubled young man came to a head when on December 23, 2016 03:00 CET Anis Amri was killed in a shootout with Italian law enforcement in front of the Sesto San Giovanni railway station, near Milan, Italy. Amri arrived at Chambery, France (via Turin) by train. When Milan police asked him to search his bag, Amri pulled out a gun and shot one officer in the shoulder, then another officer shot Amri stone-cold dead.
It was confirmed by Italian Minister Of The Interior Marco Minniti that the policeman was hospitalized due to the gunshot wound in his shoulder.
In the aftermath of the shooting, German police confirmed that Anis Amri's fingerprints match those found on the truck's steering wheel.
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