The strange journey of the Berlin jihadist
The journey of the Berlin jihadist Anis Amri, before he was shot dead in Milan by Italian law enforcement, just gets stranger.
Published: December 29, 2016, 2:11 pm
Amri had travelled by bus from the Netherlands to France, sources close to the investigation told AFP on Wednesday.
Two days after the December 19 attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, the jihadist boarded an overnight bus in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, near the German border, one of the sources told AFP, confirming a French media report.
Investigators are still puzzled about how Amri was able to leave Berlin and cross most of Germany to reach the Netherlands.
Dutch lawmakers including anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders demanded an explanation over the latest reports that Amri may have travelled through the Netherlands.
An attempt by Wilders to convene the lower house of parliament for an urgent debate on the matter was however turned down after he failed to get the approval of a majority, leaving important questions on the matter of Amri’s free SIM card hanging.
The Berlin jihadist arrived in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, strangely just in time to receive a free SIM card handout at the station, Italian newspaper La Repubblica said, possibly enabling him to freely communicate without detection.
Amri had travelled with the company FlixBus from Amsterdam’s Sloterdijk station to Nijmegen on Wednesday night, the Dutch newspaper Metro reported.
Wim de Bruin, spokesman for the Dutch public prosecution service told AFP: “We believe he was in Nijmegen, most likely last Wednesday.”
“There are video images and it’s very likely him,” De Bruin added and that it was most likely “here where he received a SIM card”. Italian police later found the SIM card in question on his body.
It was widely reported after the attack that German police searched a refugee centre in Emmerich, just across the border at Nijmegen.
On Wednesday, French broadcaster TF1 said Amri arrived in Lyon on a bus which departed from Amsterdam. Apparently he was armed, but was neither searched nor asked to identify himself at any point.
Paris-based web portal Monde Afrique on Friday claimed the Moroccan intelligence agency had twice alerted German authorities to Amri’s “fervent” support for the Islamic State and his contact with two of their representatives in advance of Monday’s attack, once on 19 September and again on 11 October.
German authorities have detained a 40-year-old Tunisian on suspicion of having ties with the jihadist.
According to research by German broadcaster WDR, Amri regularly commuted between Berlin and the Ruhr region where he is believed to have visited a dozen mosques. In Dortmund he had a key to a mosque where he stayed overnight.
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