For a few brief days after 16 December 2016, Amri had 'status' and was front-page news as he drove the tractor trailer rig into the Christmas market crowd in Berlin. He would escape from the scene, and be a target for around a week....then shot dead in Italy by police there.
There should have been a fairly organized review of the event, his background, and some 300-page report wrapping up the situation a year later (after his death).
Well....the review and case.....has never concluded.
Today, RBB (Berlin public TV) went back to another detail.....the roving telephone numbers. I'd strongly suggest a reading of the article, because it digs deep.
At the moment of Amri's escape....the investigative team asked for full cellphone details in the region. There were tens of thousands of phones noted.
Out of this listing....there were 18 telephone numbers that overlapped with Amri's movement around the city.
The general belief (not shared by the police)? Amri had an associate or 'helper'. The police view? They've generally said 'no' and walked away from this discussion.
What about the 18 numbers in the investigation? Well....this gets interesting. They go number by number and cross off 16 of them.
Then you have these two numbers which they don't seem to be interested in. One is a Russian number. RBB even called the number, and had a conversation with a person who seemed to speak perfect German. What he was doing in Berlin on the 16th of December 2016? Well....they seem to skip that question and never ask.
The second number? It leads off with 0088. It's not a real telephone number....it's the module that you have in cars for emergency purposes where you could contact the police or fire department in an accident. Beyond that....no one can seem to identify the owner (they know it's a fairly recent BMW).
The police interest in either the Russian or the BMW angle? Zero....absolute zero.
I read the piece twice over....it's obvious that a ton of investigative work was done by the Berlin police, and the guy is stone-cold dead.....so the rest of this story probably shouldn't matter. But there's been various 'breadcrumbs' left on the ground, and people just keep wondering.....did Amri get help as he left the Christmas market area?
I suspect....even a ten years into the future....the Amri case will still be existing and people believing in a second suspect.
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