Germany holds Tunisian for possible link to Berlin attack
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BERLIN - German authorities have detained a Tunisian man they suspect of involvement in the truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market which killed 12 people, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Investigators found the mobile phone number of the 40-year-old Tunisian stored in the phone of Anis Amri, the man believed to have hijacked a truck and rammed it into the crowd at a Christmas market in the German capital on Monday last week.
Amri, a failed asylum seeker also from Tunisia, was shot dead in Italy on Dec. 23.
Officials raided the home and business premises of the new suspect in Berlin. They did not name him.
"Further investigations indicated that he could have been involved in the attack," said prosecutors.
