Undercover Ending Story

 This is a little story, which will get minor mention in German news and simply leaves you wondering at the end.

Back in December 2016....this Tunisian guy....Anis Ben Othman Amri (in his mid-20s)....had been living this life of a marginal criminal in Tunisia.  

One day, he (with a history of criminal behavior since age 15), he somehow got on a refugee boat and ended up in Lampedusa, Italy.  Rescued at sea....he felt asylum would turn things around.  For the next four years in Italy....he went back to criminal behavior (yes, even setting fire to the asylum facility and assaulting a language instructor).

The Italians have had enough of Amri.  There's a court session and the next problem comes up during deportation....no passport and Tunisia doesn't want him back.  Four years wasted....to reach this point, and he can't be deported.

For a brief period, after a release from the Italian authorities....he stays in Switzerland.  Then he moves onto Germany in the summer of 2015.  

His addition to criminal behavior?  It continues on. 

Oddly enough, he applies for asylum in Germany....thinking he'll slip through the system.  During this period, someone notes that he has a passport in his possession....something he claimed he didn't have two years earlier with the Italians.

By October of 2015, Amri was noted as connected to radical Islamic groups. The German police have this record and he is apparently on some type of 'watch-list'.

The fourteen aliases?  The Germans were handing out social payment deals left and right and he figured the way to apply....just show up in different places and get the program to send him deposits monthly.

All of this, with drug-activity as well....continues on.  So around 19 December 2016, he stole a truck....drove into a Christmas market in Berlin....killing eleven people and injuring another 50-odd folks. 

He escapes, and makes it to Milan, Italy....where the cops come upon him, and a short shoot-out occurs (there he dies).

The Germans opened up a 'truth-commission' over this.  It took almost an entire year to lay out this entire story from his youth, the crime element, the Italy years, and the path in Germany over 18 months.  

There are literally a hundred points where someone (either in Italy, Switzerland, or Germany) should have grabbed the guy and physically put him into prison or got him deported back to Tunisia.  

So the opposition parties (Greens, FDP and Linke) stood up and asked one final question.  A lot of information over the German period goes to some undercover agent.  They wanted access to him, and to put some serious questions up.  

This week, the Constitutional Court stood up and said 'no'.....you will not get this undercover agent or his ID.  The story basically ends here at this point.

A five-star movie?  I think you could make a ten-hour mini-series over this one single guy.  

As for the undercover agent?  You could have a lot of speculation over his involvement, or what he told his bosses.  He might have said in very bold words that Amri was a massive threat and out-of-control because of his drug habits.  That's the thing about this.....without him speaking, the final end of the story is just left there.  Someone screwed up.....11 folks died, and you can't resolve the blame situation.