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Berlin Christmas market attack
Berlin truck attack: Tunisian man detained by
German prosecutors
Forty-year-old held in connection with deadly attack on Christmas market as investigators try to piece
together route that took suspect Anis Amri to Milan
Firefighters inspect the truck that crashed into a Christmas market in Berlin. Twelve people died in
the attack. Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty
Agencies
Wednesday 28 December 2016 15.27 GMT First published on Wednesday 28 December 2016
14.05 GMT
German prosecutors have detained a Tunisian man they suspect may have been involved in last
week’s truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.
The 40-year-old, who was not identified, was held during a search of his home and business, federal
prosecutors said.
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The man’s telephone number was saved in the mobile phone of Anis Amri, a fellow Tunisian
believed to have driven a truck into the market on 19 December. Amri, 24, was killed in a shootout
with police in a suburb of Milan early on Friday.
Of the new suspect, prosecutors said “further investigations indicate that he may have been involved