In mondays truck attack. He has been named as 24 year old anis amri, a tunisian, who has been in the country since 2015. The suspect had been monitored by the Security Services but its reported they couldnt deport him because his key documents were missing. A reward has been issued for information leading to his capture. The german public have been warned hes likely to be armed and violent. Jenny hill reports from berlin. Youre looking at europes most wanted man, anis amri, the main, the only, suspect in the investigation into an attack which shattered germany. Prosecutors warn he may be armed, dangerous, and they are offering a 100,000 euro reward. Translation theres a new suspect. We are searching for him. Well keep investigating every lead. We issued a issued a warrant for this suspects arrest at midnight. The warrant covers all of germany and most of europe. We are learning more about the 24 year old tunisian. He arrived in germany last year and was refused asylum, but granted temp
In mondays truck attack. He has been named as 24 year old anis amri, a tunisian, who has been in the country since 2015. The suspect had been monitored by the Security Services but its reported they couldnt deport him because his key documents were missing. A reward has been issued for information leading to his capture. The german public have been warned hes likely to be armed and violent. Jenny hill reports from berlin. Youre looking at europes most wanted man, anis amri, the main, the only, suspect in the investigation into an attack which shattered germany. Prosecutors warn he may be armed, dangerous, and they are offering a 100,000 euro reward. Translation theres a new suspect. We are searching for him. Well keep investigating every lead. We issued a issued a warrant for this suspects arrest at midnight. The warrant covers all of germany and most of europe. We are learning more about the 24 year old tunisian. He arrived in germany last year and was refused asylum, but granted temp
and denied asyluasylum. he was released because authorities could not establish his identity beyond doubt. german authorities are offering a 100,000 euro award. he may be armed and dangerous. joining us live from berlin with the latest on the details of the investigation is chris burns. good morning, chris. reporter: good morning, miguel. in fact, what are you talking about there. we are seeing tabloid headlines. why was he not kept in prison longer. anis amri was held for some time. was supposed to be sent back to tunisia. his native. they did not have the right papers for him until yesterday. so they had to let him go. that is what some of the outrage is today as we see the headlines today. anis amri had been a criminal in tunisia as well as italy. he spent four years in an
who wanted to launch attacks, an idea that member of that recruitment network, too, were supportive of, and offered to hide him. we re also hearing according to that file that members of the recruiting network had also been talking about driving a truck full of gasoline, and a bomb, into a crowded area. and also, learning that at least one senior member of the group had been trying to arrange logistics to get amri out of the country, out of germany, in 2015, and 2016, and we of course know that in august amri had been arrested here in germany for trying to cross illegally into italy with forged documents. but for some reason a german judge, taking the decision to let him go. now he s on the run, one of europe s most wanted men. there were raids in several german cities overnight. we re also hearing that they ve raided, searched rather, a port in denmark, 100,000 euro bounty
of armed robbery, sent to prison for four years. when he was released, that s when he made his way to cologne, germany, and that s where he fell into contact with the islamists, the pro-isis recruitment network. now on the loose with a 100,000 euro bounty on his head, authorities warn he could be armed and dangerous. don? erin mclaughlin, thank you for that. i want to find out what you think of the suspect in this truck attack. we re learning now that he has connections to an isis recruiting network. does that change things? well, one of the gaps here was, in the first day isis didn t claim responsibility and nobody claimed responsibility on their behalf. then we saw them yesterday claim responsibility, using the very