Taliban leader tries (and fails) to get asylum in Germany

A Pakistani asylum seeker believed to have used a hijacked 25-tonne lorry to murder 12 people and injure 48 more at a Berlin Christmas market had only been in Germany for months and was already known to police because of petty crime, it was revealed today.
The masked 23-year-old named as Naved B, who entered the country under a false name on New Year's Eve 2015, turned off the truck's lights before mounting the pavement at 40mph and ploughing through crowds of people enjoying mulled wine after work.
The vehicle laden with steel cargo ripped through stalls and shoppers at 7pm on Breitscheidplatz Square, outside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the German capital's main shopping area.
Witnesses said victims were sent flying like bowling pins as the killer driver steered at them before jumping out of the cab and racing from the scene.
Police managed to take the masked terror suspect alive at a nearby zoo after a 'hero' witness in the Christmas market gave chase on foot while giving officers second-by-second updates on his phone. Naved B is in a Berlin police station today
Police confirmed the lorry's original Polish driver, who was transporting steel beams into Germany, was last heard from at around 4pm yesterday and was found dead in the cab in an apparent murder hijacking.
German officials have said that the driver is a Pakistani national who entered Germany via the Balkans on December 31 and February as an asylum seeker. He was believed to be living in a refugee camp at Berlin's Tempelhof airport, which was raided by an elite group of armed anti-terror police at 4am this morning.


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Whoever could have predicted this?

OMG, the Berlin police have totally f*cked up.

http://news.sky.com/story/live-truck-crashes-into-christmas-market-in-berlin-10702680

What we know so far:

:: The interior minister says there is "no doubt" the crash at a Christmas market was a terror attack
:: Angela Merkel, in a brief appearance, says she is shocked and shaken
:: Police have arrested a 23-year-old from Pakistan, but German newspaper Die Welt says police don't believe he is the perpetrator
:: DIe Welt says the perpetrator is still at large and is armed
:: Security is being stepped up at sites across the UK as well as in other European countries
:: Twelve people were killed and 48 are in hospital, with at least 18 a serious condition
:: The truck crashed into tables and stalls at the market outside Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

Say Thank You! to Ma Merkel.

Oh, and it's pointless her being 'shocked and shaken' now. Anyone with half a brain knew importing hundreds of thousands of military age men who detest us was going to end badly.

ister Sondages ‏@Mister_sondages 18h18 hours ago
FRANCE IS WITH GERMANY !#Berlin #PrayForBerlin



That's nice. But I seem to recall it's only a couple of days since France turned the lights out to Stand with Al Quaeda and Al Nusrah.

First Berlin victim a Pole who fought for his life

WARSAW, Poland (AP) December 20, 2016 — He was the first victim in the attack on a Berlin Christmas market — a 37-year-old Polish truck driver who was seemingly stabbed and shot to death in the cabin of his truck. One of his colleagues said he was so dedicated to his work and his truck that he could be expected to defend the vehicle "to the end."

Lukasz Urban, a 37-year-old from the western village of Roznowo, near the border with Germany, was found dead in the cabin of the truck that was hijacked and driven into the crowd Monday evening, killing at least another 11 people. German authorities are calling it an "act of terrorism."

Ariel Zurawski, the owner of the trucking company and the victim's cousin, was asked by German authorities to identify Urban from photos. "It was really clear that he was fighting for his life. His face was swollen and bloodied. Police informed me that he had suffered gunshot wounds. Despite being stabbed he was shot dead," Zurawski told Polish media.

https://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/4846838-berlin-victim-pole-who-fought-life.html#.1258-stage-hero1-4

That is so so sad, LL.

http://news.sky.com/story/berlin-christmas-market-attack-killer-on-loose-as-suspect-released-10703497

A Pakistani man suspected of being the driver of a lorry that ploughed into a crowded Berlin Christmas market has been released without charge.

Prosecutors said there was not enough evidence to link him to Monday evening's rampage in which 12 people were killed in the German capital.

It means the main suspect is still on the loose and is believed to be armed. A manhunt is now taking place to find him.

Witnesses were able to follow the truck's driver from the scene but lost track of the perpetrator.

The arrested man, who denied any involvement, matched witness descriptions of the driver, according to prosecutors.

But investigators have not been able to prove he was in the truck's cab at the time of the atrocity.

German publication Welt earlier quoted officers as saying of the detained asylum seeker: "We have the wrong man.

"The real culprit is still armed, at large and can cause new damage."

Police had not found the blood of a dead Polish truck passenger on the suspect, it added.

The gun used to shoot the victim, who was the original driver and whose body was discovered in the cab, has not been recovered.

Witnesses described the truck ploughing through wooden huts serving hot wine and food, sending people flying.

Six of the dead from the attack have been confirmed as Germans while work goes on to identify the others.

Forty-eight people were also injured in the attack, 18 of them are in a serious condition.

Not very impressive; I doubt Berliners will be comforted by the knowledge that a homicidal jihadist is on the loose in the area - though he could be anywhere in Europe by now.

Aüd™ ‏@CodeAud 1h1 hour ago
German Police are searching for the Tunisian terror suspect known to be using 2 names Anis A. and Ahmed A. #Berlin



Achmed A. and a pixillated photo. Yup, that will really help.

Despite an unfolding international manhunt the first pictures of Amri released in Germany have his eyes deliberately covered, thought to be because of strict privacy laws there. MailOnline has uncovered unblurred images

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Unblurred photo:

Germany launches Europe-wide manhunt for Tunisian suspect

BERLIN (AP) December 21, 2016 — German authorities have launched a Europe-wide manhunt for a Tunisian man with ties to Islamic extremists who has been identified as a suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack, lawmakers said Wednesday.

The man is being sought in Germany and across Europe's border-free travel zone, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said after briefing Parliament's domestic affairs committee. He stressed "this is a suspect, not necessarily the perpetrator. We are still investigating in all directions."

https://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/4848450-germany-launches-europe-wide-manhunt-tunisian-susp.html#.1258-stage-hero1-1
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Truck attack suspect had been denied asylum

BERLIN (AP) December 21, 2016 — A senior German security official says the Tunisian man being sought in connection with Monday's truck attack in Berlin had been considered a possible terror threat by German authorities.

The interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, Ralf Jaeger, says "security agencies exchanged information about this person in the joint counter-terrorism center, the last time in November." Jaeger told reporters on Wednesday that state police had launched proceedings against the man on suspicion that he was preparing a serious crime.

Separately, he says German authorities rejected the man's asylum request in July.

Stephan Mayer, a lawmaker with Germany's governing conservatives who speaks on domestic security matters, says the new suspect in the Berlin market attack being sought by German authorities is thought to be a Tunisian with ties to Islamic extremists.

Mayer says the man, whose wallet was found in the cab of the truck that slammed into a busy Christmas market in the German capital on Monday evening, was apparently meant to be deported from Germany earlier this year.

It keeps getting more and more outrageous.  

And I bet you Merkel gets re-elected next year, despite this debacle.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/12/21/germany-expects-further-significant-attacks-warn-police-chiefs/

Germany can expect “further significant attacks” after a Berlin Christmas market was hit on Monday and a “dangerous criminal” could still be on the run, top police bosses have warned.
Berlin police chief Klaus Kandt instructed his countrymen on Tuesday to be “particularly vigilant” as the suspected terrorist behind the attack could be armed and on the run, and the head of the federal criminal police office, Holger Münch, said Germany remained on “high alert”.

Islamic State has also claimed the attack – the worst terrorist atrocity on German soil since 1980 – describing the driver of the truck as “a soldier of” of their jihadi terror group.

This morning, police revealed they are now hunting a 24-year-old Tunisian immigrant named as Anis A., after a 23-year-old Pakistani ‘refugee’ was released last night.....etc.

Surprise, surprise.

http://news.sky.com/story/berlin-market-attack-lorry-suspect-had-been-under-surveillance-10704346



The main suspect in the Berlin lorry massacre was under surveillance for several months this year, German authorities admit.

A Europe-wide manhunt is under way to find Tunisian Anis Amri who is suspected of being at the wheel when a truck was driven into a crowd at a busy Christmas market.

More follows...

Oh FFS.

Revealed: Tunisian asylum seeker wanted for Berlin massacre was jailed for four years in Italy for burning down a school and arrested three times in Germany before police lost him
Terror suspect Anis Amri, 23, from Tunisa served four years in an Italian prison for an arson attack on a school
His ID was found in the footwell of the truck used in Monday's attack which claimed 12 lives and injured 48
German security officials had Amri under close surveillance between March and September this year
He was suspected of dealing drugs and planning robberies to finanance the purchase of assault rifles
Amri allegedly arrested for GBH and having fake passport but vanished in December before the attack


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But hey, at least no-one called them 'raycist' or 'far Right'.

A British street market - concrete barriers were also erected around them.

Ironically, some UK moonbats wailed about Evil Guns on our streets - but I suspect they have seen the wisdom of this now.

Nothing like a wake-up call......

http://news.sky.com/story/authorities-under-fire-over-berlin-suspect-probe-10704661

Armed police carry out raids as Berlin suspect sought
Security services stopped tracking Anis Amri despite being tipped off in March that he could be planning an attack.

Heavily armed police carried out overnight raids in Berlin as a Europe-wide manhunt for the main suspect in the lorry massacre continues.

A spokesman for Germany's chief federal prosecutor denied reports in Bild that four people who were in contact with Tunisian Anis Amri have been arrested.

Amri, an asylum seeker who was known to police, is suspected of being at the wheel of a hijacked 25-tonne lorry which ploughed into a crowd of shoppers at a busy Christmas market.

German officials said the 24-year-old came to their attention in March after a tip-off that he might be planning a robbery to raise money for automatic weapons to use in an attack.

They followed him until September, when it was decided there was no evidence to back up the original suspicions.

Rainer Wendt, the head of a union representing German police, said civilians are "rightly outraged and anxious that such a person can walk around here, keep changing his identity and the legal system can't cope with them".

Meanwhile, German newspaper Der Spiegel criticised authorities who "had (Amri) in their crosshairs and he still managed to vanish".

On Wednesday, it was reported that police searched a refugee centre in Emmerich, west Germany, where Amri stayed a few months ago, as well as two apartments in Berlin.

.....etc.

The Berlin lorry massacre suspect was learning how to make bombs and was barred from flying to America because of his links to ISIS, US officials have revealed.
An international manhunt is continuing for failed Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri today with German police under fire for a string of blunders that let him go free.
The 24-year-old, who has a 100,000 euro reward on his head, was under the surveillance of German intelligence for several months following his arrival in the country in 2015. He had been arrested three times this year and his asylum application was rejected - but deportation papers were never served and he disappeared.
On Monday night, the Tunisian radical - who has used six different aliases and three different nationalities - is believed to have driven a 40-tonne truck through a Christmas market, killing 12 and injuring dozens.
It has since emerged that he was on the radar of US agencies who say Amri researched bomb-making online and was barred from flying to America having communicated with ISIS using the Telegram messaging service.


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Jesus H. Christ, just how many of these savages are there, wandering freely around Europe?