Berlin: The Tunisian man, believed to be the suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack was killed in a shoot-out Italy's Milan on Friday, reports said.

According to the reports, the suspect, Anis Amri, was stopped in his car around 3 am for what was a routine identity check. He pulled out a pistol and shootout ensued in which he was shot.

Police in Germany were searching for a Tunisian man in relation to the Berlin Christmas market attack.

A residence permit was found in the truck that on Monday ploughed through a crowd, killing 12 and injuring 48. The man was identified by the magazine as Anis A., a 24-year-old Tunisian who could be using two different aliases.

Prosecutors had issued a Europe-wide wanted notice for 24-year-old Anis Amri, offering a 100,000-euro ($104,000) reward for information leading to his arrest and warning he "could be violent and armed".

Christmas markets have been a known potential target for Islamist militants since at least 2000, when authorities thwarted a plot to attack one in Strasbourg, France. And the modus operandi in Berlin was identical to that of a Bastille Day attack in the French city of Nice in July, when a Tunisian-born man rammed a lorry through a seaside crowd and killed 86 people. </s> A European-wide search is on for a 24-year-old Tunisian man, suspected of being involved in Monday’s truck crash at a Christmas market in Berlin that killed 12 and injured nearly 50.

A German security official says authorities had considered him a possible terror threat before the incident and had been trying to deport him after his asylum application was rejected back in the summer.

The wanted poster names Anis Amri as having several aliases as well as Egyptian and Lebanese citizenship.

There’s a $140,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

The post REWARD OFFERED FOR ARREST OF SUSPECT IN BERLIN CHRISTMAS MARKET CRASH appeared first on Zoomer Radio AM740. </s> ROME (AP) – The Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin has been killed in a shootout with police in Milan.

Italy’s Interior Ministry says checks conducted after the shootout show “the person killed, without a shadow of a doubt, is Anis Amri.”

Milan police say Amri passed through France and arrived in Italy early this morning by train. The Berlin attack killed 12 people and injured 56.

German authorities say they’re still waiting for official confirmation that the person killed by police in Milan, Italy, overnight was Amri.

Germany’s Interior Ministry says, “should this turn out to be true, then the Interior Ministry is relieved that this person doesn’t pose a threat anymore. </s> Hundreds gathered in Banie, a village in northwestern Poland, on Friday to honor Lukasz Urban, the truck driver killed in the attack on a Berlin Christmas market on December 19.

Under tight security measures, friends and family of Urban along with Polish President Andrzej Duda, political officials and representatives from the German Embassy attended the funeral and burial service.

Polish President Andrzej Duda paid his respects

During the service, childhood friends mourned Urban as a kind man who "never said no to anyone."

In a letter read out to the family, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said that "Poles have fallen victim in terrorist attacks before but the tragedy in Berlin is extraordinary in terms of its ruthlessness and brutality."

Outside the small stone church where the funeral was held, a group of truckers assembled in tribute to their murdered colleague. Truck drivers all over Poland paused their trips at midday and sounded their horns to express their solidarity.

Urban leaves behind a wife and a 17-year-old son. A British trucker has raised over 200,000 euros (about $210,000) online for the family, while Polish truck drivers have started a similar donation campaign. The Polish state has promised to pay for the costs of the funeral.

Hijacked in Berlin

Urban's wife touched his coffin during the funeral

Urban was delivering a steel shipment in Berlin when his truck was hijacked. The hijacker - an avowed supporter of the so-called "Islamic State" jihadist group - later drove the vehicle into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin, killing 12 people and leaving around 50 people injured.

Police found Urban shot dead in the cab of the truck. Preliminary autopsy results show that he died roughly at the time the truck was plowing through the market - a more precise time of death is expected to be released by mid-January.

Investigators initially believed that Urban might have grabbed the truck's steering wheel or brakes during the attack, but have since concluded that an automatic breaking system stopped the truck.

Police are still investigating whether the suspected perpetrator, 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri, acted as a lone wolf or had help planning the attack. The alleged jihadi was shot dead in Italy when he opened fire on two policemen last Friday.

Earlier this week, a 40-year-old Tunisian man was detained because investigators found his number in Amri's phone, but German police released the man on Thursday, saying he had no link to the crime. Last Friday, Tunisian police arrested three young men suspected of forming a terror cell with Amri, among them Amri's nephew.

mb,dm/cmk (AFP, AP, dpa) </s> A man believed to be the suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack was killed in a shoot-out in a suburb of the northern Italian city of Milan on Friday, a security source told foreign media.

The Italian interior minister will hold a news conference at 10:45 a.m. (0945 GMT), the ministry said.

Earlier today, a man matching the description of Amri was seen in Aalborg in northern Denmark, the Danish police tweeted. The police said people should keep away from the area as it had an ongoing operation there.

Fingerprints from a Tunisian suspect were also found inside the truck that smashed through the Christmas market and investigators assumed the migrant was at the wheel, officials said. Police had been on the hunt across Europe for Anis Amri, 24, as Germany reels from its worst attack in decades. </s> German authorities on Wednesday named the suspect in the Christmas market truck attack as Anis Amri, and offered a reward of up to 100,000 Euros (104,000 dollars) for information leading to his arrest.

The 24-year-old Tunisian, who had three aliases and came to Germany in July 2015, is the subject of a Europe-wide manhunt as the main suspect in the attack, which killed 12 people and injured another 48.

He was described in official papers as 1.78 metres tall, weighing about 75 kilograms with black hair and brown eyes.

Amri was already under investigation in Germany on suspicion of planning a serious act of violence. </s> Hundreds of people joined officials from Poland and Germany to attend the funeral of the Polish truck driver who was killed when his truck was used to crash into a Berlin Christmas market last week.

Lukasz Urban was among 12 people killed in the December 19 attack claimed by Islamic State.

Mourners on December 30 packed a small church in Banie, the driver's home village, while several trucks parked nearby honked their horns to honor the driver, Polish media reported.

Polish President Andrzej Duda laid a wreath and briefly kneeled in front of Urban's white coffin, after attending mass in the village in northwestern Poland, 15 kilometers from the German border.

Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said earlier that Urban's son and wife would receive a special pension, while an Internet crowd-funding campaign started by a British truck driver has raised more than $218,000 for the family.

The suspected Berlin attacker, 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri, was shot dead by Italian police on December 23 after a European-wide manhunt.

Based on reporting by AP, Reuters, and AFP </s> Two days after a suspected terrorist ran a lorry into a Christmas market in the German capital of Berlin, authorities have released a photo of the suspect.

German police have disclosed that 24-year-old Anis Amri, a Tunisian is responsible for the incident. Amri had earlier monitored earlier in the year on suspicion of armed robbery.

Officials say he is armed and dangerous and are offering a reward of up to €100,000 ($104,000) for information leading to his arrest. </s> Hundreds of mourners have bid farewell to the Polish truck driver killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack.

Lukasz Urban, 37, has been described as the first victim of the attack that killed a total of 12 people in the German capital on December 19.

He had been waiting to deliver a shipment of steel in Berlin when his truck was hijacked by the attacker, believed to be Tunisian man Anis Amri, who was later killed in a shoot-out with Italian police. Mr Urban was shot, and his body was found later in the cab of the truck.

Poland’s president Andrzej Duda joined Mr Urban’s family, friends and neighbours in a church in the village church in Banie, near the border with Germany.

A letter from prime minister Beata Szydlo was also read out in which she described her “great pain and sadness” and expressed her sympathy to Mr Urban’s family.

“Poles have fallen victim to terrorist attacks carried out by Islamic fundamentalists but the tragedy that happened in Berlin is unique when it comes to the ruthlessness and cruelty of the perpetrator,” Ms Szydlo said.
The 24-year-old Tunisian who is suspected of driving the truck that smashed through a Berlin market is killed in a shoot-out in Milan.