Die Welt: Italy wanted Amri as bait

berlin - The Tunisian Anis Amri, which late last year on a Christmas market in Berlin twelve people killed there by a truck to drive, would be used by the Italian intelligence service to obtain more information about extremist cells. Writes the German magazine Welt am Sonntag, which relies on anonymous sources within the secret services.

According to the weekly Amri Italy had been able to return on arrival in Sicily in 2011 to Tunisia, at the time that his identity had been confirmed. Something denied by the Italian authorities. In addition, Italy was the radical Amri have released in 2015 with the idea to use him as bait in Italy, but they were his track.