a field asylum seeker gruber truck into a crowded hunted to market in the city center italian police shot and killed the tinnies in a tackle four days later in a shootout in milan after he eluded german police especially on a mentor committee will investigate a series of police and security failures that allowed the suspects to stage a terrorist attack and escape the scene. on december nineteenth twenty sixteen terrorist and nice amery steered a hijacked truck into a busy christmas market on berlin's bright child plants twelve people died and many are still suffering today from serious injuries it was the first serious jihadist attack in germany but could it have been prevented a committee of inquiry is set to investigate this question in retrospect it is clear that security authorities knew a great deal about an ace amery they had already identified him as a threat one year before the attack they were aware of his drug trafficking his