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Berlin Attack Suspect Nearly Passed by Hollande While Fleeing to Italy - Reports

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Berlin Attack Suspect Nearly Passed by Hollande While Fleeing to Italy - Reports

21:11 GMT 23.12.2016 (Updated: 03:29 GMT 24.12.2016)

© AFP 2023 / MARTIN BUREAUFrench president Francois Hollande is pictured during a meeting with the French Foreign Affairs Minister and figures from the cultural world and members of associations committted to peace in Syria, on October 14, 2016 at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris

French president Francois Hollande is pictured during a meeting with the French Foreign Affairs Minister and figures from the cultural world and members of associations committted to peace in Syria, on October 14, 2016 at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris - Sputnik International

The French authorities are investigating how the suspect in the Christmas market attack, who was killed on Friday, was able to travel through France and reach Italy days after ramming a truck into the Berlin crowd, French media report.

View of the truck that crashed the evening before into a christmas market at Gedдchtniskirche church on early December 20, 2016 in Berlin - Sputnik International

Merkel Says Everything Points to Anis Amri's Primal Role in Berlin Truck Attack

23 December 2016, 14:27 GMT

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The suspect, 24-year-old asylum seeker from Tunisia Anis Amri, managed to flee from Germany days after driving a truck into a crowd at a Christmas market in the center of Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring over 40 others.

According to Europe 1 radio, Amri passed through Lyon via the Part-Dieu railway station and took a train to Chambery on Thursday, where he bought another ticket to Milan via Turin.

In Chambery, Anis Amri nearly passed by French President Francois Hollande, who was present at the opening of a new hospital in the city, according to Europe 1, which cites surveillance camera footage where the suspect is seen boarding the TGV train.

The radio said that police were too busy ensuring Hollande's security to notice Amri.

On Friday, Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti announced that Anis Amri had been killed in a shootout with police in Milan early in the day.

The German Interior Ministry considers the deadly Breitscheidplatz square Christmas market attack a terrorist act.