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German police seek Tunisian in hunt for market attacker

After releasing a first suspect on Tuesday, and another on Wednesday, German police fan out in pursuit of a Tunisian man after finding ID under driver's seat of the truck used to ram into bustling Berlin Christmas market on Monday.

German police are looking for a Tunisian man after finding an identity document under the driver's seat of the truck which plowed into a Christmas market on Monday evening, killing 12 people, Der Spiegel's online edition reported on Wednesday.

 

 

Der Spiegel, which did not cite its sources, said the document was in the name of Anis A., born in Tataouine in 1992. The man is also believed to use false names

 

German police on alert (Photo: AFP)
German police on alert (Photo: AFP)

  

The report came shortly after German police arrested a second suspect in the ongoing pursuit in the early hours of Wednesday morning related to the terror attack. He too was later released, German broadcaster rbb reported on Wednesday.

 

Germans remember the victims of Christmas market attack    (צילום : רויטרס)

Germans remember the victims of Christmas market attack

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On Tuesday evening police released a first suspect, a Pakistani asylum-seeker who was arrested near the scene shortly after Monday's attack and authorities warned the attacker is on the run and may be armed.

 

Berlin Christmas market surrounded by police (Photo: AFP)
Berlin Christmas market surrounded by police (Photo: AFP)

 

The Pakistani man, who who came to Germany last year, had been picked up based upon a description of the man who jumped out of the truck and fled. But prosecutors said he had denied any involvement in the attack. Prosecutors also said no forensic evidence had been found proving that he was in the cab during the rampage, and no witnesses had followed him from the scene of the carnage to where he had been picked up.

 

Under German law, prosecutors have until the end of the calendar day following an arrest to seek a formal arrest warrant keeping a suspect in custody.

 


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