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Berlin Truck Attack Suspect Reportedly Passed Through Brussels on Way to Italy

© 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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Anis Amri, a Tunisian national, suspected in a terrorist attack on Christmas market in Berlin, went through Belgium's capital en route to Italy, media reported Wednesday.

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
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On December 19, Amri, a 24-year-old asylum seeker from Tunisia, allegedly drove a heavy truck into a crowd at the Christmas market on the Breitscheidplatz square in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring almost 50 others. A few days later Amri was shot by police in Milan, Italy.

Amri passed through Bruxelles-Nord train station, likely on a train from Amsterdam, French BFMTV broadcaster reported, citing Belgium's prosecutors' office.

Earlier on Wednesday, media said German police were investigating two people who had been connected to Amri and their possible participation in the attack.

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