Berlin/Zurich: THE Tunisian man who killed 12 people last month by ploughing a truck into a Berlin Christmas market had made several trips to Switzerland and may have procured a gun there that he used to hijack a truck for attack, German broadcaster ZDF reported.
“A lot speaks for that in the investigations so far,” ZDF said of the possibility that Anis Amri, a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia, obtained the gun in Switzerland.
Analysis of data from Amri’s mobile phone indicated he had visited Switzerland many times, ZDF reported, without citing its source. Amri was killed in a shootout with police in Milan on December 23.
Switzerland’s Office of Attorney General (OAG) said it had opened criminal proceedings in connection with the Berlin attack on December 19.
The OAG neither confirmed nor denied that suspect had stayed in Switzerland or had obtained gun in the country.
“The OAG has opened criminal proceedings against unknown persons based on information from abroad,” an OAG spokeswoman said yesterday. It said the information received was related to contact data linked to Amri.
