Berlin attack suspect shot dead in Milan: Italy
Italian police and forensics experts gather around the body of suspected Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri after he was shot dead in Milan on December 23, 2016. PHOTO | / AFP PHOTO / DANIELE BENNATI
What you need to know:
Amri had been missing since escaping after Monday’s attack in central Berlin.
He had links to Italy, having arrived in the country from his native Tunisia in 2011.
Shortly after his arrival in Italy, he was sentenced to a four-year prison term for starting a fire in a refugee centre.
He was released in 2015 and made his way to Germany.
ROME, Friday
The Tunisian man suspected of carrying out the Berlin truck attack has been shot dead by police in Milan, Italy says.
Anis Amri, 24, was accused of killing 12 people and wounding dozens more in Monday’s assault on a Christmas market, which has been claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.
Italy’s interior minister Marco Minniti told a press conference in Rome that Amri had been fatally shot after firing at police who had stopped his car for a routine identity check around 3am.
“Identity checks established without a shadow of doubt that the dead man was Amri,” the minister said.
Amri had been missing since escaping after Monday’s attack in central Berlin. He had links to Italy, having arrived in the country from his native Tunisia in 2011.
Shortly after his arrival in Italy, he was sentenced to a four-year prison term for starting a fire in a refugee centre. He was released in 2015 and made his way to Germany.
German police said Amri steered the 40-tonne truck in the attack after finding his identity papers and fingerprints inside the cab, next to the body of its registered Polish driver who was killed with a gunshot to the head.
