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CEP Releases Updated
Resources Following Death of Main Suspect in Berlin Christmas Market
Attack
(New York, NY) – The
Counter Extremism Project (CEP) today
released updated resources on extremism and counter-extremism in Germany
following the death of the prime suspect in a December 19 truck attack on
an outdoor Berlin Christmas market in a shootout with Italian police in
Milan.
The attacker—believed to be Tunisian-born Anis Amri—plowed a truck
into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people
and injuring 48 others. The attack took place at in Breitscheidplatz, a
major public square in western Berlin, near the landmark Kaiser Wilhelm
Memorial Church. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack through its
Amaq news agency, calling the driver a “soldier” of the Islamic State and
has since released a video purportedly showing Amri pledging allegiance
to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Amri was a former asylum-seeker whom German authorities had reportedly
tried to deport earlier this summer. Amri arrived in Italy from Tunisia
2011, and began living in Germany in December 2015. The attack came
amidst heightened tensions in the EU following ISIS’s online campaign
designed to inspire followers to carry out attacks in their home
countries.
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