Alwaght- The man that had attacked a Christmas market in Germany and killed 12 people, was gunned down in Italy.
The man was stopped at a routine check in Milan but when the police officer asked him for ID, he pulled out a gun and shot the police but was later killed during the shootings.
Anis Amri, the chief suspect in the deadly attack was asked to show his papers and empty his backpack, he pulled out a gun, shot one officer, and in turn was shot and killed by another policeman.
"Police bastards,” Amri, who turned 24 this week, shouted in Italian before dying, according to the account given by Antonio De Iesu, director of the Milan police, at a news conference.
Amri was Tunisian and had pledged his allegiance to the ISIS terrorist group in a video released by the group on Friday.
“Now I can wish you all a really peaceful Christmas,” the German interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, told reporters Friday afternoon, as he thanked his Italian counterparts.
But the death also raised numerous questions about Amri’s movements and motivations, as well as about the potential gaps in the security of a Europe with open borders.
Law enforcement authorities issued a Europe-wide warrant on Wednesday for Amri, who migrated to Italy in 2011 and was imprisoned for four years in six different prisons in Sicily before making his way to Germany in 2015.
Italy officially classified Amri as a terrorism risk after he threatened to decapitate a cellmate in prison in Palermo in 2014, according to Lorenzo Vidino, who chairs an Italian commission of experts on radicalization that was formed this fall.
The officer, whom Amri shot, identified as Cristian Movio, was wounded in the shoulder and had surgery on Friday. The other officer, who shot Amri, was identified as Luca Scatà.
