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