It is no longer a secret that the security authorities had a few breakdowns before the attack on Breitscheidplatz. The Bundestag has now discussed the consequences of its investigations.
Incorrect assessments, overworked officials and a lack of communication between authorities have all contributed to the fact that the later Christmas market bomber Anis Amri was not withdrawn from circulation in time.
This is the conclusion reached by the Bundestag’s committee of inquiry in its final report, which was finally discussed in plenary on Thursday. The FDP also noted a general problem. “It wasn’t just individuals who failed, a structure failed,” said FDP domestic politician Benjamin Strasser.
Amri, a rejected asylum seeker from Tunisia, shot a Polish truck driver to death on December 19, 2016. He then raced across the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz in his vehicle, where he killed another eleven people and injured dozens. Then the supporter of the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) managed to escape to Italy, where he was shot by the police during a check.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution had been dealing with Amri since February 2016, stressed SPD MP Fritz Felgentreu. As a consequence of the attack, his party colleague Mahmut Özdemir demanded that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees should be developed “into an identity verification authority”.
Amri was not an individual perpetrator, but “part of a jihadist network with a direct line to IS,” said the Greens chairwoman Irene Mihalic. The Federal Criminal Police Office did not investigate enough about the people around him after the attack, “according to the motto” The perpetrator is dead, the case is solved “.”
Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble expressed “our deeply felt condolences” to the disabled and the relatives of the victims on behalf of Parliament. Some of them followed the debate in the stands. The establishment of the committees of inquiry into the attack in the Bundestag, in the Berlin House of Representatives and in Düsseldorf was good and necessary, said the committee chairman Klaus-Dieter Gröhler (CDU). “With us, things are not swept under the carpet.”
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