Search for Berlin Christmas market attack suspect underway

“We don’t know for sure whether he, or they, had support”.

The prosecutor’s office said forensic tests did not provide evidence of the Pakistani asylum seeker’s presence in the truck at the time of the incident. You and Cristian Movia are the image of Italy we would like”, while another said: “You’re just a boy. you’ve risked your life to make that of others more secure, for a salary that of course doesn’t reward the sacrifices.

Shouting “Allah Akbar”, or “God is Great”, the suspect fired at the officers hitting one of them in the shoulder before he was shot dead by police.

In a press conference on Friday, Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti confirmed there was a shootout in a suburb of Milan in the early hours of the morning local time.

He was identified by his fingerprints.

Other officers returned fire, killing Amri, who German authorities believe plowed a stolen truck on Monday through a Christmas market in Berlin.

Tunisia’s anti-terrorism police have raided the house of a wanted suspect in Berlin’s deadly truck attack and questioned his family, Tunisian online newspaper al-Chorouk reports.

Shocked bystanders are seen fleeing from the scene in a panic as the drama unfolds.

Amri then got on a train destined for Milan, Italian police said, arriving at 12:45 a.m. on Friday (6:45 p.m. ET Thursday). He declined to provide further information, citing the ongoing investigation.

A police spokesman said there was no connection between the Duisburg arrests and the Amri case, which has been claimed by Islamic State. As a result, twelve people were killed and 48, some in critical condition, were taken to hospital. Authorities are now trying to figure his movements over his last days, and final hours. The Polish driver was found dead in the truck’s passenger seat.

His ID card was found in the cab of the lorry which drove into shoppers in Berlin on Monday.

Abdelkader said Anis may have been radicalized in prison in Italy, where he went after leaving Tunisia in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings.

Moments after Amri’s death, ISIS released pre-recorded footage of the attacker showing him pledge his allegiance to the terror network.