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| Berlin attack: Anis Amri 'shouted Allahu Akbar' during gun battle with Italian police in Milan | Berlin attack: Anis Amri 'shouted Allahu Akbar' during gun battle with Italian police in Milan |
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| Anis Amri reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” while shooting at police in Italy after being stopped during a routine patrol. | Anis Amri reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” while shooting at police in Italy after being stopped during a routine patrol. |
| The Berlin attack suspect was shot dead during the gun battle in Milan in the early hours of this morning. | The Berlin attack suspect was shot dead during the gun battle in Milan in the early hours of this morning. |
| He is thought to have travelled to the city from France after a train ticket was discovered in his backpack, suggesting he evaded authorities in at least three countries despite being the subject of a Europe-wide manhunt. | |
| It showed he had indicated he had travelled by high speed train from France to the northern Italian city of Turin, before catching a regional train to the suburbs of Milan, a source told Reuters. | |
| He said police were tipped of that Amri could be in the area, triggering additional patrols. | |
| Marco Minniti, Italy’s interior minister, said officers were patrolling in Sesto San Giovanni at 3am local time when they stopped a man matching Amri’s description. | |
| “At the moment he was stopped, the man without hesitating took a pistol out of his rucksack and shot the police after they asked him for identification documents,” he told a press conference. | |
| “The patrol immediately responded to the shooting. A police officer was injured but fortunately he is recovering in hospital. | |
| “State police officers responded and the person who attacked our patrol was killed. | |
| “Investigations have revealed that the person killed, without any shadow of a doubt, is Anis Amri.” | |
| The pistol Amri produced may be the same weapon he used to kill the driver of the lorry that ploughed into the German Christmas market. | |
| Amri is believed to have hijacked the vehicle from its Polish driver, Lukasz Urban, as he was parked up in Berlin on Monday afternoon. | |
| The lorry’s GPS showed it moved backwards and forwards “as if someone was learning how to drive it” before it drove around six miles to the Christmas market, accelerating to plough into stalls packed with locals and tourists. | |
| Almost £100,000 has been raised for Mr Urban’s family, including his wife and teenage son, amid reports he gave his life fighting the hijacker in a desperate attempt to stop the attack. | |
| Amri fled after the lorry came to a stop, leaving Mr Urban dead in the cabin with knife and bullet wounds. The gun was not recovered, prompting warnings during he was “armed and dangerous” from German prosecutors. | |
| They offered a €100,000 (£85,000) reward for information leading to Amri’s arrest and it was unclear if the money would be paid out. | |
| Reports of the shooting came as Danish police hunted a man matching Amri’s description in Aalborg. | |
| There was also speculation Amri may have been hiding out in Berlin after police footage caught him entering a mosque linked to Islamist extremists in the German capital hours after Monday’s attack. | |
| German authorities had attempted to deport the 24-year-old in June after rejecting his asylum application but a bureaucratic dispute with Tunisia over missing documents proving Amri’s nationality meant he could not be ejected from the country. | |
| Revelations that he had been put under surveillance for six months after being linked to a previous terror plot stoked anger against security services for letting him slip through the net. | |
| Amri’s brothers believe he may have been radicalised while serving a prison sentence for arson in Sicily, while he was wanted for armed robbery in Tunisia. | |
| He known to deal drugs in Berlin and had been involved in a violent brawl, fitting the profile of young criminals frequently targeted by Isis recruiters with the offer of “redemption”. | |
| Investigations into Amri’s associates and a possible wider terror network in Germany continue, after he was linked with two jailed extremist preachers convicted for supporting Isis. | |
| Separately, German special forces arrested two brothers suspected of planning a terror attack on a shopping centre in the city of Oberhausen in North Rhine-Westphalia. | |
| Police said the operation in Duisburg had no connection to Amri and the Berlin attack. |