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Germany detains Tunisian man linked to Berlin truck attacker

EghtesadOnline: German police have detained a 26-year-old Tunisian man over links with the perpetrator of an Islamist truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people, a federal prosecutors' spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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Publish Date:05/January/2017 | 05:22

Merkel says Islamist terrorism is biggest test for Germany

EghtesadOnline: Islamist terrorism is the biggest test facing Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday in a New Year's address to the nation, and vowed to introduce laws that improve security after a deadly attack before Christmas in Berlin.
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Publish Date:31/December/2016 | 14:07

Tunisian security forces arrest three for links to Berlin market attack suspect

EghtesadOnline: Tunisian security forces have arrested three suspected militants after uncovering their links to Anis Amri, the Tunisian national believed responsible for the Berlin Christmas market attack that killed 12 people, Tunisia's Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
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Publish Date:24/December/2016 | 15:02

Suspect in Deadly Berlin Attack Is Latest Tunisian Jihadi

EghtesadOnline: The Tunisian now wanted throughout Europe has six aliases, three nationalities — and links to the same brand of Islamic extremism that has drawn at least 6,000 of his countrymen to jihadi networks.
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Publish Date:22/December/2016 | 07:59

German state minister says: 'We are in a state of war'

EghtesadOnline: The interior minister of the German state of Saarland said on Tuesday Germany is in a state of war after a man drove a truck into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 48, in a suspected terrorist attack.
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Publish Date:20/December/2016 | 15:43

German police say arrested man may not be Christmas market attacker

EghtesadOnline: A Pakistani asylum-seeker arrested on suspicion of killing 12 people by mowing through a Berlin Christmas market in a truck may not be the attacker, and the real perpetrator could still be on the run, German police said on Tuesday.
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Publish Date:20/December/2016 | 15:42

Europe on Christmas high alert after truck attack in Berlin

EghtesadOnline: Security was heightened for the Christmas weekend in Italy and at the Vatican on Saturday after Italian police killed the man believed to be responsible for the Berlin market truck attack while other European cities kept forces on high alert.
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Publish Date:25/December/2016 | 11:33

Berlin truck attack suspect shot dead by police in Italy

EghtesadOnline: Italian police shot dead the man believed responsible for this week's Berlin Christmas market truck attack, killing him after he pulled a gun on them during a routine check in the early hours of Friday.
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Publish Date:24/December/2016 | 07:04

Germany Hunts 'Violent And Armed' Tunisian in Truck Attack

EghtesadOnline: Germany on Wednesday launched a Europe-wide manhunt for a "violent and armed" Tunisian man with ties to Islamic extremists who has used at least six different names and three different nationalities, saying he is a suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack.
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Publish Date:21/December/2016 | 19:38

Germany frees suspect in market attack, says perpetrator maybe still at large

EghtesadOnline: German authorities on Tuesday released a Pakistani asylum-seeker suspected of driving a truck into a Berlin Christmas market and killing 12 people due to a lack of evidence and the interior minister said the real perpetrator may still be on the run.
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Publish Date:21/December/2016 | 06:49