Three and a half years after the Islamist terrorist attack on the Christmas market on Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz, the police in Italy arrested a man who is said to have obtained a fake ID card for the later assassin Anis Amri. This is reported by the dpa news agency. The suspect was arrested in April in Naples together with seven other suspects.
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Amri, an asylum seeker rejected in Germany, used the falsified Italian ID card, according to the investigations, at the end of July 2016 on a bus trip from Italy to Germany. According to the investigators, the man now caught belongs to a whole gang of counterfeiters. A further 11 suspects are being investigated.
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Amri had hijacked a truck on December 19, 2016, with which he drove to the Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz. He killed twelve people. Amri had close contacts in the Salafist milieu and was a supporter of the terrorist militia Islamic State.
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