Italian police gun down man responsible for Berlin market attack

Anis Amri, 24-year-old Tunisian suspect who is reported to be responsible for this week’s Berlin Christmas truck attack has been gunned down by Italian police in Milan.

Reports say Amri travelled to Italy from France and then travelled to Sesto San Giovanni, where two young policemen approached him because he looked suspicious.

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Milan police chief Antonio De Iesu told reporters that Amri had arrived in Milan’s main railway station from France at around 1 a.m. and was approached by two police officers but he pulled a gun on them during a routine check in the early hours of Friday and was shot in the process.

Amri, early this week drove a truck that smashed through a Berlin market on Monday killing 12 people, and security forces across Europe have been trying to track him down until he was killed in Milan.

 

 

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