Reporter yes, erica, the three arrests, yeby tunisian authorities in tunisia. The interior Ministry Says among the three is a nephew of anis amri, the man who drove the truck into this market over my shoulder on monday. Killing 12 people, injuring 48. His nephew, according to the interior ministry told them his uncle had told him to pledge allegiance to isis. Even anis amri was part of this recruitment, according to what we hear from the tunisians. Recruitment process through the abu walaa organization. Thats the hate preacher here in germany who has been arrested. For years they have waged this training proselytizing and organizing. That is something that the German Authorities are still worried about, even though anis amri was killed by Italian Police yesterday, the story is not over. Chancellor Angela Merkel says we have to stay on guard. We have to go after those who are connected to anis amri. Theres a telegraph app were hearing about. Tunisian Authorities Say this was the app tha
Another police agent shot back and killed him. The italian interior minister says without a doubt this is anis amri. We are not sure how he was identified but they did have his fingerprints off of the truck here at the market to go from. Chris . All right, chris, thank you very much. Stay with us to weigh in on this conversation. Lets bring in cnn terrorism analyst and editor and chief paul crookshank. And we have counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. Phil, you and i have been corresponding off camera here about the reporting. The concern is its not just this guy. Not just this market and you have Different Countries now weighing in on what the plots could be, how these are related and whos responsible for this guy getting that far away, even french intelligence Authorities Saying he must have gone through france to get to italy. Did he go through pairs and did we miss him, too . What is your take . Well, yeah, he went through france. We know that now and then by train to italy, a countr
They also talked about how to help amri flee the country afterwards. This new information as the manhunt for him intensifies across europe. Were also hearing german chancellor Angela Merkel will address the latest on the investigation at a press conference set to begin shortly. Cnns Erin Mclaughlin is in berlin with us for the very latest. Good morning, erica. Thats right we are hearing some new and disturbing details about the 24yearold Tunisian National and his links to the proisis Recruitment Network known as abu walaa. Now Senior Members of that Recruitment Network had been arrested by authorities here in germany back in november. Cnn has had a chance to take a look at the 345page investigative file in relation to that case. According to that file amri is named several times, mentioned by a Police Informant as someone who wanted to launch attacks, an idea that member of that Recruitment Network, too, were supportive of, and offered to hide him. Were also hearing according to that f
All right. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im poppy harlow in the chair today for carol costello. We have a lot of breaking news to get to. Lets begin out of the mediterranean island of malta. Where we know at this hour two hijackers with grenades have taken over a passenger plane. They are, at this moment, threatening to blow it up on the tarmac. The Maltese Police conducting negotiations with the hijackers by phone, obviously this has been intense feig, going on for a few hours now. It is 3 00 in the afternoon there. In malta. We know that at least some of the passengers we know have been released. Potentially all of them. We are staying on top of this story. Ian lee joins us now with more, this is an airbus 320. This is a plane that left from the libyan city headed for tripoli, obviously diverted to malta. What else do we know about the passengers on that plane, ian . Well, there was 111 passengers on that plane and were
According to investigative files obtained by cnn, German Authorities not only knew he had contacts with these proisis operatives but that he had spoken several times about launching attacks in germany. Now the manhunt is on not just for him but anyone who may have helped him slip away. Evan perez is with me, our cnn justice correspondent so evan what specifically did the u. S. Know about this guy and what did they do about it . Well, brooke, what they first did was put him on a no fly list. This is based on information they were able to give them from their counterparts in germany, german intelligence has found that part of a group as you mentioned was a recruiting network, a network that was helping to find and send fighters to send syria to join isis. That was the big concern here. There were also people in touch with people in syria who the intelligence agencies in germany and the United States believe were plotting and direct iing attacks in the continent. That reminds us of this c