Europe Scrambles to Find Tunisian Suspect in Berlin Attack
A French military looks at vehicules passing by the French-German border in Ottmarsheim, eastern France on Dec. 22, 2016. German authorities came under fire on Dec. 22 after it emerged that the prime suspect in Berlin's deadly truck attack, a rejected Tunisian asylum seeker, was known as a potentially dangerous jihadist. Prosecutors have issued a Europe-wide wanted notice for 24-year-old Anis Amri, offering a 100,000-euro ($104,000) reward for information leading to his arrest and warning he "could be violent and armed". SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images
BERLIN—Authorities across Europe scrambled Thursday to track down a Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, as one of his brothers urged him to surrender.
Nearly three days after the deadly attack that killed 12 people and injured 48 others, the market in the center of the capital was due to reopen.
German authorities issued a wanted notice for Anis Amri on Wednesday and offered a reward of up to 100,000 euros ($104,000) for information leading to the 24-year-old’s arrest, warning that he could be “violent and armed.”
One of Amri’s brothers urged him to turn himself in.
“I ask him to turn himself in to the police. If it is proved that he is involved, we dissociate ourselves from it,” brother Abdelkader Amri told The Associated Press.
The Dec. 21, 2016 photo shows a refugee shelter in Emmerich, western Germany, in which the suspect of the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin had been living. The shelter was searched by police on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. AP Photo/Martin Meissner
