Berlin truck attack: Tunisian sought over market deaths - reports [UPDATE: suspect apparently shot dead in Milan]

[TomSea]

Berlin truck attack: Tunisian sought over market deaths - reports

German police are searching for a Tunisian over Monday's Berlin Christmas market attack, media reports say.

According to a temporary-stay permit found under a seat in the cab of the lorry, the man, named as Anis A, was born in 1992 in the city of Tataouine.

Read More At: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38392128

If they didn't find temporary-stay permit, we might not even have a clue as to whom to look for. This is early reporting, so let's see how this shapes up.

[TomSea]

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/german-police-hunt-tunisian-man-over-berlin-attack-reports-184200356

More here, as it is, the suspect may even have 3 aliases.

[Suppressed]

Anis A, was born in . . . Tataouine

Suspiciously similar... 

[TomSea]

So, without much info; I gather, this is whom they are looking for now.

I hope they find this suspect as of now. Very sad.

[TomSea]

£90k bounty on terror fanatic's head Berlin lorry killer ‘was due to be kicked out of Germany and sent back to Tunisia TODAY’ – as it emerges he had been arrested three times and tracked for months

Suspect Anis Amri, 24, had his original asylum request rejected in June but a wrangle with Tunisia saw him stay in Germany for another six months

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2453112/berlin-christmas-market-suspect-hunt-underway-as-police-search-dutch-border/

Familiar scenario with these guys, suspect in his 20s, radical leanings.

[truth_seeker]

Yet another one of these animals they knew about, but failed to act.

[rangerrebew]

Suspect in Berlin attack is just the latest Tunisian jihadi
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PARIS (AP) — The Tunisian now wanted throughout Europe has six aliases, three nationalities — and links to the same brand of Islamic extremism that has drawn at least 6,000 of his countrymen to jihadi networks.

Anis Amri, who turns 24 on Thursday, is in grim company with other Tunisians claimed by the Islamic State group. One of them includes the man who mowed down 86 Bastille Day revelers in the southern French city of Nice last July and another who gunned down tourists on a beach in Tunisia.

At least 6,000 Tunisians have left home to join Islamic State extremists, forming the single largest nationality of foreign fighters for the group. Many trained at IS camps in neighboring Libya. Others made their way to Syria and Iraq.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/suspect-in-berlin-attack-is-just-the-latest-tunisian-jihadi/

[TomSea]

Tunisia has closed 80 radical Mosques;

They are a Muslim nation and they do that.  (UK has allowed radical clerics in who Pakistan won't let preach but that is another topic) France closed some; but here and in the UK, people complain about infringing on one's rights if we do such things.

As is all over the news today, Tunisia is a Jihadi hotbed for some reason, outside of Syria and Iraq themselves, they probably produce the most per capita.

[mountaineer]

Berlin Truck Attacker is MUSLIM MIGRANT who BURNED DOWN SCHOOL in Italy, Arrested 3 times, NEVER DEPORTED
By Pamela Geller - on December 21, 2016

Take little comfort Americans, President Obama won’t deport criminal illegals either.

Anis Amri was arrested three times this year and his asylum application was rejected, but deportation papers were never served and he disappeared.

A European arrest warrant from Germany, indicates that Anis Amri (pictured above) has at times used six different aliases and three different nationalities. German police were tracking him for months amid fears he was involved in an earlier terrorist plot – but lost him before the Berlin Christmas market massacre.

The Tunisian radical was known to be a supporter of Islamic State and to have received weapons training.

He tried to recruit an accomplice for a terror plot – which the authorities knew about it – but still remained at large.

It also emerged that he served four years in an Italian jail after he set fire to a school.  ... More, including photos.

[TomSea]

Even when they are lone wolves, they really aren't.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/evidence-confirms-obvious-berlin-attacker-was-no-lone-wolf

[TomSea]

Berlin Truck Attacker is MUSLIM MIGRANT who BURNED DOWN SCHOOL in Italy, Arrested 3 times, NEVER DEPORTED
By Pamela Geller - on December 21, 2016

Take little comfort Americans, President Obama won’t deport criminal illegals either.

Anis Amri was arrested three times this year and his asylum application was rejected, but deportation papers were never served and he disappeared.

A European arrest warrant from Germany, indicates that Anis Amri (pictured above) has at times used six different aliases and three different nationalities. German police were tracking him for months amid fears he was involved in an earlier terrorist plot – but lost him before the Berlin Christmas market massacre.

The Tunisian radical was known to be a supporter of Islamic State and to have received weapons training.

He tried to recruit an accomplice for a terror plot – which the authorities knew about it – but still remained at large.

It also emerged that he served four years in an Italian jail after he set fire to a school.  ... More, including photos.

Obviously, not the kind of person who should ever be let into another country.

[TomSea]

'It's all too convenient': Questions over how police missed Berlin attack suspect's ID in truck for 24 hours - as it emerges far-right leader 'KNEW attacker was a Tunisian Muslim' hours after the atrocity

    Lutz Bachmann said on Monday night he had been told attacker was Tunisian
    Leader of far-right PEGIDA said information was from 'internal police source'
    At the time, police had only revealed their arrest of a Pakistani asylum seeker
    He was later released without charge having denied involvement in the attack
    Some have also questioned the 'convenient' discovery of Tunisian suspect's ID

By Julian Robinson for MailOnline

Published: 07:12 EST, 22 December 2016 | Updated: 09:34 EST, 22 December 2016

A far-right leader in Germany knew the suspect in the Christmas market attack was a Tunisian just two hours after the attack - despite police initially arresting a Pakistani man, it has emerged.

Lutz Bachmann, who fronts the anti-immigrant PEGIDA group, tweeted on Monday night that he had 'internal police information' about the nationality of the lorry driver who murdered 12 revellers in Berlin.

At the time, police had announced the arrest of a Pakistani asylum seeker - it was only when he was released that Tunisian Anis Amri was publicly identified as the chief suspect.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4058312/It-s-convenient-Questions-discovery-Berlin-attack-suspect-s-ID-24-hours-police-scoured-truck-emerges-far-right-leader-KNEW-attacker-Tunisian-Muslim-hours-atrocity.html#ixzz4TZzTKxWW

Something a bit inconsistent here I'd admit.
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[rangerrebew]

Germany could not deport Berlin truck jihad attacker because of missing paperwork

December 22, 2016 2:36 am By Christine Williams 35 Comments

    A German minister has admitted security forces knew the suspected Berlin attacker was a terror threat but failed to detain or deport him before he ploughed a lorry into a Christmas market.….. the Tunisian man had already been put under investigation over a previous attack plot but missing paperwork meant he could not be ejected from Germany.

From one bungle to another, with some authorities not taking the jihad threat seriously enough, even when it was right in front of their faces.

Anis Amri spent four years in jail in Italy for burning down a school, and then left the country for Germany last year. Since then, he was arrested at least three times and was identified as an ISIS supporter who received weapons training, but authorities kept on losing him; now it’s revealed that missing paperwork precluded him from being kicked out of Germany.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/germany-could-not-deport-berlin-truck-jihad-attacker-because-of-missing-paperwork

[rangerrebew]

Ah, the wonder, efficiency, and red tape of big government!  Those who don't learn from History's mistakes ---

[truth_seeker]

Germany suffers from such a high degree of "white guilt" that it is suicidal.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/german-police-scour-country-for-truck-attack-suspect-anis-amri-1482408069

Berlin Christmas Market Attack Suspect Anis Amri’s Fingerprints Found in Truck

Federal authorities have issued a rare international wanted notice to try to track him down

By Ruth Bender and Valentina Pop

Updated Dec. 22, 2016 10:48 a.m. ET

BERLIN—Investigators found fingerprints of a Tunisian terrorism suspect in the truck that rammed through a Berlin Christmas market, Germany’s top security official said Thursday, expressing confidence that he was the perpetrator of the attack.

Searches took place in several German states overnight for Anis Amri, a 24-year-old Tunisian migrant whom authorities previously investigated for suspected terror ties and tried to deport, but police hadn’t been able to find him.

“We can tell you that we have further indications that the suspect was, with a high degree of certainty, the perpetrator,” Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said after visiting the federal criminal office with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

He said prints were found of the suspect in the driver’s cab. Officials had earlier cautioned that they weren’t certain that Mr. Amri had committed the crime.

The revelation that the asylum seeker had been able to remain in Germany despite efforts to expel him has stoked criticism over the country’s immigration policy and security, piling pressure on Ms. Merkel’s government.

Ms. Merkel said authorities were working at full speed to find the man and defended her record on government measures to fend off terrorism.

Federal police have issued a rare international wanted notice for the suspect, who arrived in Germany last year after time in an Italian prison.

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[TomSea]

3:30 CST: Some are saying it is being reported a terrorist, I guess this Tunisian, has been killed in a shootout in Germany. Italy, Milan

Breaking News.

[TomSea]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/dec/23/berlin-market-attack-suspect-anis-amri-killed-in-milan-reports-say-live-coverage
Berlin market attack suspect killed in Milan, reports say – live coverage

Italian media report that Anis Amri has been killed in a shootout in Milan

Stephanie Kirchgaessner

Anis Amri, the suspect behind Monday night’s terror attack in Berlin, has been killed in a police shootout in Milan, according to an unconfirmed report by Panorama, an Italian news magazine. Panorama claimed in an exclusive report this morning that Amri was killed in a routine traffic stop at 3am today in the Piazza I Maggio in the Sesto San Giovanni neighborhood. The report was not immediately confirmed by the Italian government or any law enforcement officials.

Panorama reported that Amri pulled out a gun and began shooting at the officers. It said that an officer who had been on the job for nine months then killed the suspect. The officer was shot in the shoulder but is alive. Italy’s top law enforcement official, the interior minister, Marco Minniti, is due to address the press at 10:45 am (9.45am GMT). Amri was believed to have spent several years in Italy before he traveled to Germany.T here were separately reports of a shootout in Milan in several Italian newspapers.

http://www.bild.de/news/2016/news/eilmeldung-mailand-49460930.bild.html

Italienische SicherheitskreiseAttentäter Anis Amri in Mailand erschossen

Italian security forcesAttentis anis amri shot in Milan

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Italy was where he lived before, so being able to travel there? One wonders about security in that.

It must be around 10 AM or so in Italy right now, and the article so far says the incident happened at 3 AM, so about 6, 7 hours ago?

[TomSea]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2466083/berlin-attack-suspect-shot-dead-in-shootout-with-police-in-milan/

Sun coverage.

[rangerrebew]

 Berlin Truck Attack Suspect Killed in Milan Police Shootout
Italian police cordon off an area around a body believed to be Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri after a shootout with police in Milan, Dec. 23,
Associated Press | Dec 23, 2016 | by Nicole Winfield

ROME -- The Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin was killed early Friday in a shootout with police in Milan, ending a Europe-wide manhunt, Italy's interior minister said.

Checks conducted after the shootout showed "the person killed, without a shadow of a doubt, is Anis Amri, the suspect of the terrorist attack," Interior Minister Marco Minniti said.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/12/23/berlin-truck-attack-suspect-killed-milan-police-shootout.html

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the Monday attack in Berlin, which killed 12 and injured 56 others.

[mountaineer]

 

[rangerrebew]

Anis Amri: small-time criminal turned Berlin truck killer
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By Frank ZELLER with Kaouther LARBI in Tunis (AFP)     21 mins ago in World
 
Anis Amri, the Tunisian suspect in the Berlin truck attack who was shot dead in Milan on Friday, followed the well-trodden path of petty criminal turned jihadist killer.

Security sources believe the rejected asylum seeker was radicalised during a four-year stint in an Italian prison before he murdered 12 people in Monday's attack on a Christmas market in the German capital.

Amri, who turned 24 years old while on the run Thursday, was hailed as a "soldier of the Islamic State" by the IS-linked Amaq news agency after the bloody assault.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/anis-amri-small-time-criminal-turned-berlin-truck-killer/article/482275#ixzz4TfGgmOmR

[Mod1]

Merging all related threads on this terrorist, with updated subject.

[TomSea]

This terrorist was well known enough that he was on the US watch list, I guess no-fly list too.

[skeeter]

This terrorist was well known enough that he was on the US watch list, I guess no-fly list too.

We know he wouldn't have been on the special registry because Obama just eliminated it.

[TomSea]

@skeeter
I saw that Kaiser Church, Hotel, whatever it is called that you mentioned. Yes, it's right in the area of that initial attack.