MILAN: The Latest on the investigation into the deadly truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market (all times local):
Milan police say the officer who was injured in a shootout with the Berlin Christmas market attack suspect managed to fire a round against his attacker but that his partner fired the fatal shot that killed suspect Anis Amri.
Christian Movio, 35, was operated on at a Milan hospital for an injury to his right shoulder. The surgeon says it was a superficial wound and that he was in good condition.
Movio’s 29-year-old partner, Luca Scata, has only one year of experience on the force. His fatal shot to the chest killed Amri.
Milan police chief Antonio de Iesu said the officers became suspicious after noticing Amri alone, outside a closed suburban Milan train station at 3 a.m. When asked, he said he had no ID papers. He also had no phone and just a small pocket knife.
But de Iesu says he has a fully loaded 22-calibur pistol that he used against the officers.
“He is a ghost,” de Iesu said, referring to Amri’s lack of documents or phone.
Visitors to the Berlin Christmas market where 12 people died and dozens were injured in a truck attack earlier this week say they’re relieved to learn that the key suspect was killed in Milan.
The market outside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the center of the capital reopened Thursday with extra security.
Berlin resident Gustel Kasorka says he is happy the attacker is not alive anymore.
French tourist Lucy Dalbourgh says it’s “a bit weird to imagine” that Amri could simply have taken a train from Berlin without being arrested.
Anis Amri was shot by Milan police after he opened fire on them during a routine stop early Friday.
The Tunisian hometown of Berlin attack suspect Anis Amri is reeling at news that he was killed by police in Milan.
Amri’s brother Abdelkader told The Associated Press by telephone Friday that the family wants to find out the “truth about my brother.” He hung up when asked about the family’s reaction to Amri’s death.
The family ordered a crowd outside their house to leave when news of Friday’s police shootout reached the central Tunisian town of Oueslatia, according to neighbor Wiem Khemili. Police stood guard around the impoverished town, where everyone is talking about Amri.
Amri’s mother and siblings have questioned German authorities’ accusation that he drove a truck through a Berlin Christmas market Monday, killing 12 and wounding dozens.
The Islamic State group, which has recruited thousands of disillusioned young Tunisians to fight in Syria and Libya, claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Aamaq news agency, run by the Islamic State group, says in a statement that the perpetrator of the truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market carried out a new attack against an Italian police patrol in Milan and was killed in an exchange of fire.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the Monday attack that killed 12 people and injured 56 others.
Anis Amri, a 24-year-old Tunisian, was killed in a shootout with police in Milan on Friday. He shot a police officer in the shoulder, but the wound was superficial and a surgeon said he was in good condition.
Milan’s police chief says it’s “suggestive” that the truck used in the Berlin Christmas market attack had taken on its load in a Milan suburb not far from where the main suspect was killed in a police shootout.
Chief Antonio de Iesu says investigators are looking into Anis Amri’s possible contacts in Milan, but that there’s no clear connection so far.
Amri was killed during a 3 a.m. police shootout in Sesto San Giovanni, an industrial and residential suburb of Milan. On Dec. 16, the truck used in the Berlin attack was in another Milan suburb, Cinisello Balsamo, to take on its load of street cleaning equipment.
Germany’s top prosecutor says investigators are trying to determine whether the suspect in the deadly truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market had help from a network of supporters in planning the attack and then fleeing to Italy.
Anis Amri, a 24-year-old Tunisian, was shot dead early Friday by police conducting a routine stop in Milan after he opened fire on them.
Chief Federal Prosecutor Peter Frank says his office is working with Italian authorities to reconstruct the route Amri took to get there from Berlin.
He says authorities in Milan were able to identify Amri with help from fingerprints provided by German authorities.
Milan police chief Antonio de Iesu says the suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack passed through France before arriving by train at Milan’s central station around 1 a.m. Friday.
Italian officials say 24-year-old Anis Amri was shot dead a few hours later outside a different train station in suburban Milan after he opened fire on police who asked him for ID. They were suspicious because the station was closed at that hour.
De Iesu said Amri “surely passed through France,” but he declined to provide further information about Amri’s travels, citing the ongoing investigation.
German officials issued a Europe-wide wanted notice for Amri on Wednesday, after he was identified as the key suspect in the truck attack that killed 12 people and injured 56 others.
