Thursday, December 19, 2019

Amri, Breitscheidplatz and Non-Closure

It's been 3 years since the terror attack in Berlin, at the Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz.....with 12 dead and over 50 injured.

You would think by now, with the attacker (Anis Amri) dead in Italy from encountering the police there....that the whole investigation would have been closed with all details known.  Well....NO.  There are probably a dozen details which simply aren't going to be revealed.  Part of this goes to the police, and part to things that the present government doesn't want to discuss.

How did Amri get away?  Unknown.  The belief is that someone helped him.  No one can solve that part.

The one or two details that a AfD Party member knew within a couple hours....related to a 'known Tunisian'?  The cops and investigative panel can't conclude how this guy came to know before the cops.

Did the US point out Amri ahead of time on classified chatter?  Some details seem to suggest that the Germans were told something, by 'someone', but they don't want to really get into who it was.  It would almost look like the Russian KGB came down and told them, and they just didn't want to believe it (my humble belief).

How he got all the way into Italy?  Again, someone probably helped the guy, but we don't know who.

It's obvious to the Berlin City Senate panel that some elements of the police are holding back bits of the story.  Why?  It's anyone's guess.  Maybe they are embarrassed  or perhaps the lower-level guys tried to tell the bosses, and they failed to grasp the threat.

So the Senate folks will just close this?  More or less.  It reminds one of the Munich 1980 Oktoberfest attack (13 dead, 200-plus injured), and how bit and pieces of this have only come out in the last three years to really fill in the mystery of that attack. 

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