The Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin was killed early Friday in a shootout with police in Milan, ending a Europe-wide manhunt, Italy's interior minister said. Checks conducted after the shootout showed "the person killed, without a shadow of a doubt, is Anis Amri, the suspect of the terrorist attack," Interior Minister Marco Minniti said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the Monday attack in Berlin, which killed 12 and injured 56 others. Amri, 24, who had spent time in prison in Italy, was stopped by two officers during a routine police check in the Sesto San Giovanni neighborhood of Milan early Friday, Minniti said. He pulled a gun from his backpack after being asked to show his identity papers and was killed in the ensuing shootout, he said. One of the officers was shot and is in the hospital, but his wound is not life-threatening, Minniti said. The other officer fatally shot Amri. He was repeatedly transferred among Sicilian prisons for bad conduct, with prison records saying he bullied inmates and tried to spark insurrections. He served 3 1/2 years for setting a fire at a refugee center and making threats, among other things — but Italian officials apparently detected no signs that he was becoming radicalized. German authorities had deemed Amri, who arrived in the country last year, a potential threat long before the attack this week — and even kept him under covert surveillance for six months this year. They had been trying to deport him after his asylum application was rejected in July but were unable to do so because he lacked valid identity papers and Tunisia initially denied that he was a citizen. الهوامش شرح الصورة : - The press spokesperson of the federal prosecutor's office, Frauke Koehler, announces an arrest warrant for Anis Amri of Tunisia on Thursday.
