It's been almost two years since the Berlin mass killing (with a truck) at the Christmas Market (12 dead and roughly 30 to 40 injured). The jihadist-guy involved....Anis Amri....a Tunisian asylum applicant to Germany. Amri had come into Europe back in 2011...saying at that point that he was underage. The Italians (initially responsible for him) found him chiefly responsible for a immigration center riot, which led to the facility being set on fire. A court episode unfolded and he was sent off to four years of prison. He serves out most of this...given some time-off, and then gets ordered to return to Tunisia. Tunisia in this cases....refuses the guy. Amri realizes most of the game is heading down-hill.....then runs off to Germany (arriving in 2015). Roughly five months pass before he even applies for asylum.
The aliases game while in Germany? Well...this is part of the overall story. Presently, Germans will agree that he had a minimum of fourteen aliases and was collecting refugee-money on these.
Amri's end? Roughly a couple days after the truck attack in Berlin.....Italian cops accidentally stumble upon the guy and he's shot dead.
So the authorities went back to understand this whole story about Amri. This week (almost two years after the attack)....N-TV (German commercial news network) reported this morning that the Berlin authorities now kinda admit that three of their undercover guys (often the term V-men is used) knew Amri in the year prior to the attack.
The undercover status? It would appear that they had various men who were infiltrating the Islamic network in Germany and getting inside of the jihadist circle. Knowing of Amri's plan? There's no indication of that. It's just odd that it took two years for the authorities to admit this little minor detail.
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