Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri did not act alone The information, provided by Italian police, was apparently released just two weeks after the terror attack. It suggests Amri was part of a Salafist cell that helped him in the attack.

An Italian police report suggests that Amri was part of a Salafist cell that helped him in the attack
.Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri did not act alone The information, provided by Italian police, was apparently released just two weeks after the terror attack. It suggests Amri was part of a Salafist cell that helped him in the attack.

 German media reported Saturday that Anis Amri, the 2016 Berlin Christmas market attacker, was not a lone wolf and could be part of a terror cell.

A 173-page police investigation report, which was apparently released to German authorities just two weeks after the December 2016 attack, and which has now been seen by various German media outlets, revealed the information about Amri.

According to police in the southern Italian city of Brindisi, the Tunisian attacker was likely supported in the attack by "single terror cell" of Salafists linked to Berlin's Fussilet mosque, which has since been closed down.

Read more: Germany searches for IS member behind Anis Amri's Berlin truck attack 

So far, German authorities have insisted Amri was alone in carrying out the terror attack that killed 12 people and wounded dozens on Berlin's Breitscheidplatz Christmas market on December 19, 2016. Amri was killed by Italian police on patrol near Milan shortly after the attack.

Italian investigators said the information about Amri was based on intercepted phone calls. The reports suggest that German authorities did not follow up on the information.

Read more:New fortified security measures at Berlin Christmas market 

Increasing evidence

Irene Mihalic, the spokesperson for Germany's Green party, told the newspaper content provider RND that the "evidence is increasing that Amri was not a single perpetrator" of the deadly Berlin assault.

"The single perpetrator theory is a total botch. But unfortunately everything deviating from this theory is not being investigated by German police," said Mihalic.

In the aftermath of the attack, the German government had been under fire from victims and relatives over their handling of the matter.

Two years after the terrorist attack in Berlin's Christmas market, the German government continues to pay compensation to the victims and their families, according to public documents made available on Friday.

So far, nearly €4 million ($4.52 million) have been distributed to the families of victims and those injured in the Berlin terrorist attack.

Read more:Germany: How do terrorist groups compare? 

 

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