With dismay, the Chairman of the Bundestag Committee of inquiry, Armin Schuster has responded to criticism of Victims and survivors. Some of the allegations he found “unjust,” Schuster said in Berlin on Thursday on the sidelines of a meeting of the Committee.
The survivors had been accused this week in an open letter to the chairmen of the groups, especially the members of the Union and the SPD to block a rapid reconnaissance through the designation of irrelevant witnesses. The allegations have him hurt a lot, said Schuster. He wanted to try and cast doubt on the work of the Committee to address it.
On Thursday, the Committee decided to consult, before the parliamentary summer recess, a number of witnesses who were involved in the early removal of a Familiar of the later Christmas-assassin Anis Amri. How the German press Agency learned of the investigation Committee, to be heard in June, three Federal prosecutors and a personal assistant of the former Interior state Secretary Emily Haber.
“I’m glad it was in our meeting today, a great deal of Agreement, that we want to now concentrate on the really relevant witnesses,” said Irene Mihalic. It is the Green-Chairwoman in the Committee, the authorities are trying to solve errors around the attack.
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Amri was on 19. December 2016, with a hijacked truck through the Christmas market on Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz barreled. He killed twelve people. More than 70 people were injured.
On the eve of the attack of the Tunisians had been taken by his compatriot Bilal Ben Ammar. Ben Ammar was on 1. February 2017 deported to Tunisia. An Alibi for the night she was killed, he did not. Amri lived as a rejected asylum-seekers in Germany. He sold drugs and was a supporter of the terror militia “Islamic state” (IS). After the attack he fled across Europe. In Italy, he was killed finally by the police.
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The Committee also wants to hear Ben Ammar as a witness. So far, the deputies did not know where he currently resides. On Thursday the members of the Committee interviewed an official from the Federal criminal police office (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA). She had been involved in 2015 to Investigations of the BKA to three with Ben Ammar known Tunisian Islamists. This group was in contact to the to Syrian the IS area traveled to Berlin gangster rappers and Salafists Denis Cuspert. (dpa)
