
In Milan, a suspect in the attack on the Christmas Fair in Berlin, a native of Tunisia Anis Amri, was killed in a shootout with police officers. This was stated by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Italy Marco Minniti, BBC reports .
On Friday night, at about 3 o’clock in the morning local time (5:00 Moscow time), police stopped a man to check documents in a suburb of Milan, but he pulled out a gun and opened fire. It is reported that he shouted "Allah Akbar" and wounded one of the policemen in the shoulder.
According to sources in the police, the fingerprints of the murdered confirm that he participated in an attack in Berlin.
According to the Italian media, Amri arrived in Italy from France. He arrived in Turin by train, and then sat on another train to Milan.
The Italian authorities were aware of Amri. In 2011, he received a prison term in Italy for vandalism and theft. He was in fullness aggressively. After leaving the imprisonment, a 24-year-old native of Tunisia requested permission to leave the country. Amri moved to Germany and submitted documents to receive asylum there in April this year.
The representative of the German Ministry of Internal Affairs Tobias Platter said that Berlin was relieved to perceive the news of the murder of the suspect.
On December 19, in the central part of Berlin, a heavy truck crashed into a crowd of visitors to the Christmas market . The truck drove through the territory of the Fair on Brightshadlaz Square about 80 meters. The driver jumped out of the car and disappeared.
As a result of the collision of a truck, 11 people died. 48 people received injuries of various severity. Many of them are in serious condition. Another murdered, Polish trucker was found in the cab. The terrorist shot him with the theft of a truck.
The police announced the detention on suspicion of an attack of a 23-year-old refugee from Pakistan. The police caught him near the fair. During interrogation, the man denied any involvement in what happened, we also did not find weapons with him.
On Wednesday, suspicions of the Pakistani were removed. The police announced that Amri was wanted on suspicion of the terrorist attack .