The connection between Anis Amri and the clan criminals in Berlin is unclear

SedanA witness in the investigation committee of the Bundestag did not rule out individual contacts between violent Islamists and criminal clans. As far as he knew, even after the terror attack on Breitscheidplatz in Berlin in 2016, there was no evidence of “structured cooperation on a larger scale” between organized crime and supporters of the terrorist militia of the Islamic State (IS) in Germany, said the witness who was at that time in the Federal Chancellery with the technical supervision of the terrorism department of the Federal Intelligence Service

At the time, he assumed the killer Anis Amri had acted as a “lone perpetrator,” said his superior at the time, former federal secret service coordinator Klaus-Dieter Fritsche. When asked if there could have been accomplices, Fritsche replied that he could not rule this out from today’s perspective.

Amri had hijacked a truck on December 19, 2016 and killed the driver. He then raced the vehicle through the Memorial Church Christmas market, where eleven other people died and a dozen were injured.

Behind closed doors, two former employees of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were to be questioned on Thursday night, but behind closed doors.

A few weeks after the attack, an employee of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania delivered an explosive note: Amri is said to have had contacts with an Arab clan in Berlin. There is a suspicion in the room that members of the clan may have helped him obtain the murder weapon and escape from Berlin.

After the attack, the Tunisian fled via France to Italy, where he was shot by the police. As it became known in the committee, it was said that the intelligence service information had not been transmitted to the investigators by his superior. Meanwhile, the Attorney General is dealing with the matter.