"Islamic state" published a video with an oath of the Berlin terrorist

Soon after the Minister of Internal Affairs of Italy, Marco Minniti said that the “without a shadow of doubt” killed in Milan was a suspect in Berlin, Tunisian Anis Amri, a video appeared on the Internet, on which the 24-year-old African swore allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State (IG, the organization , the organization is prohibited in the Russian Federation) Abu Bakru al-Bagdadi, Passes Bild .

According to journalists, the video was distributed by the ISC controlled by the AMAQ agency.

Meanwhile, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel also confirmed that it was Anis Amri on a truck that crashed into a crowd at the Christmas fair in the capital of Germany. “Everything indicates that Anis Amri was those who killed 12 people on the Christmas market on Monday night in Brightshadplaz Square and inflicted terrible wounds on many others,” Merkel announced.

According to La Repubblica , the alleged terrorist was killed in the early morning on Friday, December 23, in the city of Sithu-San-Jovanni in the province of Milan. The police stopped him on the square during a routine check and asked him to show documents. In response, the man shouted "Allah Akbar" and opened shooting. He wounded one of the law enforcement officers in his shoulder. As a result of the ensuing shootout, the attacker was liquidated by the police.

It is known that the 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri, suspected of committing a terrorist attack in Berlin, had ties with Italy. In 2011, he arrived in this country from his native Tunisia. Shortly after the arrival of Amri, he was sentenced to prison term for shooting in the refugee center. In 2015, the Tunisian was released and went to Germany.

At the same time, in Germany, Amri has long been qualified by law enforcement officers as a “person who is a potential danger” who had a connection in the Islamic environment and capable of committing a terrorist act, writes Tagesspiegel .

Nevertheless, he freely moved between the Northern Rhine - Westphalia and Berlin, there was no constant surveillance of him, and they could not send him to Tunisia, because they refused to take him back for a long time, the article translated by the Inopressa website said.

The day before, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Germany Thomas de Meziersaid that Amri's fingerprints were found in the cockpit used to attack the Christmas bazaar in Berlin. According to him, other evidence were also found, indicating that it was Amri who was driving a truck.

On Monday evening, December 19, a tractor with a trailer, loaded with steel beams, drove about 80 meters through the territory of the Christmas bazaar in the central part of the Western Berlin. 12 people became victims of the terrorist, 48 were injured. The responsibility for the attack was taken by the Islamic State terrorist group.