Germany - Truck crashes into Christmas market in Berlin, 9 dead, 19 Dec 2016

[gregjrichards]

How many attacks are in the planning stages right now in Germany and Europe particularly I wonder?

"Two brothers have been arrested in western Germany on suspicion of planning a mall attack where a popular Christmas market is taking place near the Dutch border, police say.

Special police units apprehended two suspicious looking men in Duisburg at about 12:45am local time on Friday, as authorities say they may have been planning to attack the shopping center CentrO in Oberhausen.

'The 28- and 31-year-old brothers born in Kosovo are suspected of having prepared an attack on the CentrO in Oberhausen,' an Essen police statement reads."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ack-country-s-largest-mall.html#ixzz4Td1Me3Bh

 

[ZaZara]

TWO BROTHERS FROM KOSOVO ARRESTED FOR PREPARING ATTACK ON SHOPPING MALL

Welt.de
https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/art...-moeglichen-Anschlag-auf-Einkaufszentrum.html


Specialist Units have arrested two men in Duisburg on suspicion of a possible preparation for an attack on a shopping center. The two 28 and 31 year old brothers, who were born in Kosovo, are suspected of having prepared an attack on the Centro shopping center in Oberhausen, the police said. "At the present time,we are investigating under high pressure how far the preparations have progressed and whether other persons are involved," they continued.
According to reports, the headquarters in Essen acted upon information received and had already summoned additional police forces in the area of the shopping center and the adjacent Christmas market on Thursday after 6 pm. In civilian clothes and in uniform, they controlled in the surroundings, clearly visible to visitors and customers. The Essen police will now investigate the exact background.


BBM


"Centro" in Oberhausen is Europe's biggest shopping center.

 

[CARIIS]

I did not realise that both counties did so

Both German and Italian officials say they tried to deport Amri to his native Tunisia — but both also say they hit roadblocks when Tunisian officials didn't confirm he was a citizen.

haven't ruled out that he had accomplices."

photos of Amri emerged to show him with unkempt hair and a light beard. But in other images and in a seven-second video that's being attributed to the suspected terrorist, he's seen with close-cropped hair.

http://www.wfdd.org/story/what-we-know-about-anis-amri-suspect-berlin-market-attack

Mom:
'I'll renounce him before God': Berlin suspect's mother pleads for news of son


[FONT=&amp]“I want the truth to be revealed about my son. If he is the perpetrator of the attack, let him assume his responsibilities and I’ll renounce him before God. If he didn’t do anything, I want my son’s rights to be restored,” his mother, Nour El Houda Hassani, said.[/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]distraught family wait for ‘truth’ about Europe’s most wanted

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]In his impoverished Tunisian hometown, Amri’s stunned family does not know whether to defend him or disown him.

[/FONT][FONT=&amp] In recent phone conversations, she said, he played Tunisian music and “asked about ordinary family news, and showed us meals he was preparing”.[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]“Either someone stole his papers and left them under the seat so that he would be incriminated, or they want to show that it’s this dog of the Islamic State group at the origin of this attack,” she said.

Fingerprints?

sister Najoua insisted the family has “nothing to do with terrorism” but acknowledged that her brother was “no angel”.



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[FONT=&amp]After dropping out of school in eighth grade, Anis Amri drank and fell to petty theft, his mother said.[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]one of the country’s poorest regions. It has especially high youth unemployment, and with no leisure activities or bars, young people gather in the fields to drink beer and wine away from their parents’ disapproving eyes.

Amri was convicted of stealing a truck in Tunisia and of burning down a migrant centre in Italy,

he was able to work small jobs while in an Italian prison, and sent money home

Italian authorities called him a problem inmate who had to be transferred to six different Sicilian prisons for bullying other prisoners and trying to spark rebellions.......

.....When he got out, he called us to say that he could not find work, and he was leaving for another country,”

tried and failed in Switzerland,

different number wounded 56.

Amri last spoke to his family on Friday

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...berlin-suspects-mother-pleads-for-news-of-son



SKy news there have been raids overnight

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[CARIIS]

TWO BROTHERS FROM KOSOVO ARRESTED FOR PREPARING ATTACK ON SHOPPING MALL

Welt.de
https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/art...-moeglichen-Anschlag-auf-Einkaufszentrum.html


Specialist Units have arrested two men in Duisburg on suspicion of a possible preparation for an attack on a shopping center. The two 28 and 31 year old brothers, who were born in Kosovo, are suspected of having prepared an attack on the Centro shopping center in Oberhausen, the police said. "At the present time,we are investigating under high pressure how far the preparations have progressed and whether other persons are involved," they continued.
According to reports, the headquarters in Essen acted upon information received and had already summoned additional police forces in the area of the shopping center and the adjacent Christmas market on Thursday after 6 pm. In civilian clothes and in uniform, they controlled in the surroundings, clearly visible to visitors and customers. The Essen police will now investigate the exact background.


BBM


"Centro" in Oberhausen is Europe's biggest shopping center.

oh brother

250 storesGoogle images

 

[dotr]

Humm strange Sky news is airing his family members talking about this. I know this sounds chicken but if one of my sisters did this, I would be afraid to go on global TV and tell her you have shamed us.

He is obviously not well! I really would not want to upset him!!

The papers in the cab bug me. Unless he was planning on trying to leave Germany afterwards??

OR??

maybe he believed that he thought he might die, that this was a suicide mission, the papers in the cab are indicators IMO that he wanted to be known.

I dont really understand how he would think he could die, running people over in an 18 wheeler is different than wearing suicide vests.

But the papers, now that we know how deviant he was, and for how long he behaved this way-he just does sound like he would be "concerned" about not having papers on him.

SKy news also had a recent video of him. He does not look anything like the pics we have seen. Nothing. Face is much slimmer, . Did not look like that in any pics seen so far

Here is the video - does he look like any of thepics you have seen?/

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/video-show...uspect-filming-himself-german-capital-1597788

What is the building seen behind him, beyond the river, do they have extra security there? speculation.

 

[dotr]

I posted tonight in the threats thread that multiple explosions were planned in Australia on Christmas Day multiple arrests have been made. What's worrying me is an attack on a church at midnight or day mass somewhere.

Not only at churches, but..
Hanukkah 2016 begins in the evening of Saturday, December 24
and ends in the evening of Sunday, January 1
not to mention New Year's eve.

 

[CARIIS]

Not only at churches, but..
Hanukkah 2016 begins in the evening of Saturday, December 24
and ends in the evening of Sunday, January 1
not to mention New Year's eve.

Australian police say they have broken up a Christmas Day plot to set off bombs in three different areas around Melbourne


Video is scary

http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news...ice:-christmas-day-bomb-plot-foiled/95777624/


I found the music inappropriate moo

I think (especially the way things have gone thus far) they should check the dates of all the pics they have floated around. The video was Sept.

He def looks like he has been working out just from the loss of weight in the face.

If you stopped the video and put it along side all the other pics we have seen, I am sorry there is no way I would think it was the same person. mo

 

[CARIIS]

Not only at churches, but..
Hanukkah 2016 begins in the evening of Saturday, December 24
and ends in the evening of Sunday, January 1
not to mention New Year's eve.

Dotr

Ya got me going ......

..........hopes to tap lone wolf attackers to “turn the Christian New Year into a bloody horror movie,”

ISIL issues hit list of U.S. churches for holiday attacks


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...attacks-us-churches-during-holidays/95746982/


I went to the site mentioned in the article -- it creeped me out it said something like "Do you want access to deep secrets on the web?

I went click and closed!!!

 

[CARIIS]

This is all your fault Dotr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12/20/16 AT 12:37 PM


[FONT=&amp]Within the past 48 hours, Berlin, Zurich, Turkey, Yemen and Jordan have each seen terror arrive at their doorsteps, right in the heart of the international holiday season.[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]The U.K.'s terror threat level was raised to "severe" amid a spike in international terror attacks, including one targeting a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday evening.

That attack followed a warning previously released by U.S. authorities advising travelers visiting markets across Europe over the holiday season remain vigilant.

several already thwarted attempts in France and the United States in recent months

. A similar, large-scale attack as the one that occurred this week in Berlin was prevented by French authorities, who detained seven suspects Nov. 21,

authorities in Kansas arrested four men planning an attack on an apartment complex housing a majority of Somali immigrants the month before.

has created an unprecedented challenge for governments over the holiday season.

[/FONT]Arrests this month in Austria, Belgium, Germany and Indonesia all involved terror plots targeting Christmas-related festivities.[FONT=&amp]


http://www.ibtimes.com/christmas-20...zurich-turkey-attacks-part-day-terror-2463143

Exactly how does one remain vigilant against 18 wheelers, exploding dumpsters, Ak-47, machetes, humans wearing bombs,knives, pressure cookers, or cars with explosives?

All ears here.........................

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[CARIIS]

[h=2]3 out of 7 arrested have been charged with planning terrorist attack Christmas Day at Melbourne, Australia, landmarks; 4 others in police custody - ABC Australia

disrupted a terrorist plot to detonate improvised explosive devices

• The PM says it's "one of the most substantial terrorist plots" disrupted in Australia

seized "the makings of an improvised explosive device".

searched five premises

Australian-born with a Lebanese background.

ages 20 and 24 or 25.

Operation Kastelholm, also involved the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)

evidence of an intention to use other weapons, including include knives or a firearm.

locations are in Melbourne's central business district and are often heavily populated with pedestrian traffic.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-23/what-do-we-know-after-melbourne's-'terror'-arrests/8144480


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-23/police-foil-alleged-christmas-day-'terrorist-plot'-in-melbourne/8143762




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[dotr]

http://wjla.com/news/nation-world/6-tips-for-preventing-and-surviving-a-terrorist-attack
tips for preventing and surviving a terrorist attack

Craig Gundry, vice president of special projects for Critical Intervention Services, also pointed to citizens in places like Israel and Sri Lanka, where terrorism has historically been more common, as being very aware of suspicious behavior and abandoned vehicles and objects

[video=youtube;iWnKvhVnl9U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWnKvhVnl9U[/video]

 

[CARIIS]

[FONT=&quot]“He loves money, and if you take one of his customers, he would go crazy,” said a fellow Tunisian drug dealer, Ayman, who said he often saw Mr. Amri selling cocaine in Berlin’s hip Kreuzberg neighborhood.

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]One day in March 2011, two boats left the Tunisian port of Sfax. One boat sank, killing everyone aboard. The other brought Mr. Amri to safety

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]one of 10 siblings and that his father’s hand was amputated.

[/FONT][FONT=&quot] his four-year prison sentence at the Ucciardone prison in the Sicilian capital, Palermo, infamous for having housed the worst of the mafia

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]The prison allowed him to call only one phone number, so the Amri family would pass a sole phone among relatives in Tunis and the smaller city of Sousse so he could speak to his entire family, Walid Amri said.

[/FONT][FONT=&quot] released Mr. Amri a few months early, in May 2015, and ordered him to leave the country. While in prison he received 12 warnings for violent behavior,

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]told his brother Walid that he had found intermittent employment in agriculture and at a garage. He called home every day, asking about the weather, what his mother had cooked for dinner, and how everyone in the neighborhood was faring, said his sister Nejwa, a lawyer in the central Tunisian town of Oueslatia.

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]n November, state and federal officials compared notes on Mr. Amriat the Joint Counterterrorism Center in Berlin. Given the crush of demands on German security services, they found no evidence to justify round-the-clock surveillance of him.

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]was shocked to hear Mr. Amri may be an Islamic extremist because he drank whiskey and used drugs as well as dealing them.

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Amri regularly went online in Berlin’s Moabit neighborhood at a cramped internet cafe. One of them said Thursday he had seen Mr. Amri visit the cafe one evening this past weekend—just before Monday’s attack—

[/FONT]http://www.wsj.com/articles/anis-amri-berlin-suspect-slipped-through-many-nets-1482444423

 

[Elley Mae]

He's dead. Shot and killed in Italy.

 

[shandram19]

He's dead. Shot and killed in Italy.

I just posted it to the breaking news thread.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.tele...rket-attack-suspect-anis-amri-reportedly/amp/

The man suspected of killing 12 people with a truck at a Berlin Christmas market has reportedly been shot dead in Milan.

Reuters reported that the 24-year-old suspect, Anis Amri, had been killed in a shootout in a suburb of the city in northern Italy, according to security sources

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[ZaZara]

He's dead. Shot and killed in Italy.

Allegedly this happened 13 minutes after he was seen in Aalborg, Denmark.

Teleportation?

 

[guruagain]

http://news.sky.com/story/berlin-attack-suspect-shot-dead-in-italy-reports-say-10705730

Saying he was stopped by police in Milan for a routine search 2-3 am, pulled a gun, shot a policeman and was shot and killed. Policeman recovering in hospital. He had no papers and has been identified by fingerprints.

 

[ZaZara]

http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/1.760885

Fingerprints found at the scene of the shootout identified the man as the Berlin attacker, police source told Reuters.

A short video posted on the website of Italian magazine Panorama suggested the shooting happened before dawn, with police gathered around a cordoned-off area in the dark.

The report was one of several conflicting accounts on the whereabouts of the 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri.

A man matching his description was seen in Aalborg in northern Denmark, the Danish police tweeted on Friday, saying people should keep away from the area as it had an ongoing operation there.

As of Friday morning, German authorities said they believed Anis Amri to still be in hiding in Berlin after CCTV images showed him outside a mosque.


BBM

 

[Elley Mae]

Berlin attack suspect shot dead in Italy, reports say

http://news.sky.com/story/berlin-attack-suspect-shot-dead-in-italy-reports-say-10705730

The reports said the man pulled out a gun after he was asked for his identity papers. He shot and injured a policeman.,,


The man, who reportedly had a train ticket from France in his pocket, shouted "Allahu Akbar", or "God is Great", in the firefight.

 

[Elley Mae]

He was wished a Happy Christmas.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...s-market-attack-suspect-anis-amri-reportedly/


Mr Minniti said he expressed his personal gratitude and the gratitude of the home office to the wounded officer.

"I wish him a speedy recovery and in the next few days I personally am going to go and hug him.

"I wished him a happy Christmas and told him thanks to people like him Italians will be able to have a happier Christmas.

 

[ZaZara]

http://milano.corriere.it/notizie/c...a-11e6-bac6-8c33946b31a6.shtml#?refresh_ce-cp


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