Anis Amri: How a terror suspect eluded German authorities

German authorities try to identify the errors that allowed Anis Amri to elude them until it was too late. -Vasilis Chronopoulos

When German authorities announced that Anis Amri, a Tunisian national suspected of driving a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, had been on their radar for more than a year, questions arose as to how and why he hadn’t been apprehended beforehand.

Despite allegations of petty crime, a failed asylum application and telling an intelligence informant that he wanted to commit an attack on German soil, the 24-year-old managed to slip through the sprawling web of national security and law enforcement agencies.

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