n connection with the alleged Berlin assassin Anis Amri, three persons were arrested in Tunisia. One of the suspects was the nephew of 24-year-old Amri, the Interior Ministry told in Tunis. The prisoners were between 18 and 27 years old.
In connection with the alleged Berlin assassin Anis Amri, three persons were arrested in Tunisia. One of the suspects was the nephew of 24-year-old Amri, the Interior Ministry told in Tunis. The prisoners were between 18 and 27 years old.
The nephew had confessed that he had been in contact with Amri in an encrypted way through a news app. His uncle had wanted him to swear allegiance to the terrorism of the Islamic state. Amri had also sent him money to meet him in Europe. Whether the suspects helped the alleged terrorist in his escape remained open.
The Ministry of Interior designated the three arrested men as a terrorist cell, the security forces had already lifted on Friday near the city of Kairouan. The family of Anis Amri also lives in this region. Kairouan is known as Salafist Hill.
Connections to Spain are being investigated
In the meantime, the Spanish police investigate possible connections of the alleged Berlin assassin to Spain. Investigators went from Germany to the fact that Amri had contacts with Spain, said Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido. "We are investigating all possible connections (between Amri) and our country, first of all all with a certain person," Zoido told the radio station Cope.
At death, died
Amri had died in the early Friday morning at a change of shot with two police officers at the Sesto San Giovanni station near Milan.
He is, according to the conviction of the investigators, the man, who on Monday night in Berlin with a stolen semitrailer into the Christmas market at the memory church is rusted. In the assassination attempt, 12 people died, 53 were partially seriously injured. Amri's fingerprints were secured several times on the truck.
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