Berlin market attack: German authorities under fire as they hunt suspect
Berlin — German authorities came under fire on Thursday after it emerged that the prime suspect in Berlin’s deadly truck attack, a rejected Tunisian asylum seeker, was known as a potentially dangerous jihadist. Prosecutors have issued a Europe-wide wanted notice for 24-year-old Anis Amri, offering a €100,000 ($104,000) reward for information leading to his arrest and warning he "could be violent and armed". A temporary residence permit believed to belong to Amri, alleged to have links to the radical Islamist scene, was found in the cab of the 40-tonne lorry that rammed through a packed Christmas market in Berlin on Monday, killing 11. The 12th victim, the hijacked truck’s Polish driver, was found shot in the cab. Police have searched a refugee centre in Emmerich, western Germany, where Amri stayed a few months ago, as well as two apartments in Berlin. In a sign of defiance, Berlin was set to reopen the Christmas market at the central Breitscheid square where the articulated truck cu...
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