Anis Amri, the man suspected of
Monday's attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in which 12
people died, was killed in a shootout at Sesto San Giovanni,
near Milan, on Friday, Interior Minister Marco Minniti said.
He was identified on the basis of his appearance and
fingerprints, anti-terrorism sources in Milan said.
Amri arrived in Italy from France, according to
anti-terrorism Digos police.
He went from Chambery to Turin and then took a train to
Milan, where he arrived at around 1:00.
Then he went from Milan's Stazione Centrale to Sesto San
Giovanni, where he ran into two police officers at aorund 4:00
and was killed in a shoot-out and they tried to conduct a
routine stop-check, the sources said.
Amri was killed by a trainee police officer - 29-year-old
Luca Scatà, sources said.
The other policeman, Christian Movio, 36, is in hospital in
Monza after being injured in Friday's shootout, sources said.
He needs surgery after being hit by a bullet in the shoulder,
but his overall condition is good
"There is a high level of control throughout the nation
which, when a man on-the-run enters our country, makes it
possible to identify and neutralize him," Minniti told
reporters.
"This means that the security system works".
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