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Germany to Give Over $10,000 to Relatives of Ukrainian Killed in Berlin Attack

© AFP 2023 / Tobias SchwarzView of the truck that crashed the evening before into a christmas market at Gedдchtniskirche church on early December 20, 2016 in Berlin
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
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The German government will pay compensation in the amount of 10,000 euros (over $10,400) to the family of a Ukrainian national who was killed in the Berlin truck attack, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrij Melnyk said.

KIEV (Sputnik) – On Monday, a truck rammed into a crowd at a Christmas market in the center of Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring over 40 others.

"The family of the compatriot killed in the terror attack will be able to get from the federal government a compensation of 10 thousand euros: we are informing his daughter," Melnyk wrote on Twitter.

Police patrols at the reopened Christmas market near the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin on December 22, 2016 - Sputnik International
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On Friday, Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti announced that the suspect, 24-year-old asylum seeker from Tunisia 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.

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