The Federal police has held in 2016, according to Bilal Ben Ammar, a friend of the later Christmas-assassin Anis Amri, on the look-out. However, the search for the young Tunisians at the boundaries was set at the end of November at the behest of the Berlin police three weeks before his friend and compatriot Amri in Berlin with a stolen load on the breitscheid notch place and twelve people killed.

This is a message of the Islam Department of the land office of criminal investigation to the Federal police by the 14. November of 2016. The Federal police is instructed, the search for Ben Ammar to 26. November. A reason for the decision is not called. The authorities Ben Ammar had already 2015 on the screen. He was noticed because he had said in a Leipzig home for asylum seekers, he wanted to join the terrorist militia Islamic state. In addition, Ben Ammar, was for a long time as accomplice of anise Amri.

contact to the Islamic state

Ben Ammar 2014, together with six other men entered Germany. One of them is the Tunisian Islamist Sabri S.. He should have called, according to a report by the security authorities in July 2015, the Berlin-based Salafist Denis Cuspert to an Iraqi phone number. In the result of Monitoring the telecommunications of the Tunesiers was arranged.

anise Amri had been able to flee after the attack. Such as images from surveillance cameras show that he held, inter alia, in the Netherlands and in France, before he traveled to Italy. There, he was shot by the police. Ben Ammar was on 1. February 2017 deported to Tunisia. A complicity was him who had taken on the eve of the attack with Amri, according to the investigation files are not detected. IS-Terrorist Cuspert is said to have been killed in January 2018 in Syria during an air attack. (dpa)

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+++ assassin Amri had a friend, the elegantly received, possibly for the Moroccan secret service. Why was the deported shortly after the attack? +++

+++ of The possible accomplice of the Berlin terrorist attack is to be noticed in his refugee accommodation as an Islamist. With children, he imitated beheadings. +++

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