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German police missed chance to arrest Berlin truck jihadi months before his jihad massacre

May 18, 2017 2:39 pm By Robert Spencer

“Geisel has now said police knew he was not just a small-time drug dealer as first claimed but had engaged in commercial-scale, organised drug trafficking, for which he said police could have obtained an arrest warrant.”

Were they afraid that arresting him would be “Islamophobic”?

“Police accused of cover-up in Berlin truck attack case,” AFP, May 18, 2017:

The man behind the Berlin’s deadly Christmas market jihadist attack last December should have been arrested months earlier as a drug dealer, the city-state’s interior minister charged on Wednesday.

The Berlin minister in charge of security, Andreas Geisel, also alleged there had been a police cover-up later as the Berlin State Criminal Investigation Department had sought to deflect blame.

Geisel said he had launched a criminal complaint against persons unknown inside the department.

Tunisian Anis Amri, 24, hijacked a truck on December 19th, killed its Polish driver and ploughed the vehicle through the market, claiming 11 more lives and wounding dozens.

He was shot dead by Italian police while on the run in Milan, four days after the attack which was claimed by terror group Isis.

In the aftermath of Germany’s bloodiest jihadist attack, officials admitted a series of security failures that allowed Amri to register under multiple identities and evade authorities while he was in contact with Islamist militants.

Amri, a failed asylum-seeker who had previously served jail time in Italy, should also have been deported months earlier, but it emerged Tunisia had not provided the necessary paperwork until after the attack.

He had been under surveillance since March 2016 in Berlin, but security services said they dropped their watch in September, having only observed his activities as a drug dealer.

Geisel has now said police knew he was not just a small-time drug dealer as first claimed but had engaged in commercial-scale, organised drug trafficking, for which he said police could have obtained an arrest warrant.

Geisel also alleged that one or more police involved had later forged a document in the cover-up of the omission….

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  1. Gwen says

    May 18, 2017 at 3:11 pm

    Does anyone know who the German victims of this attack were? I haven’t seen anything identifying these 7 people or hearing from their families or follow up news reporting on how the 56 injured are recovering and coping. I find this odd. How can German victims and survivors be supported or donations made if they are unknown?

    • Mockingjay says

      May 18, 2017 at 7:27 pm

      Gwen – here’s an article about just one of the victims.

      She was the mother of David, 5 years old.

      – I still can hardly look at the pictures in this article.

      (Article in German)

      http://www.bild.de/news/inland/todesopfer/meine-mama-kommt-nicht-wieder-49876002.bild.html

    • gravenimage says

      May 19, 2017 at 9:56 pm

      Here are some of the victims, Gwen:

      http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/23/europe/berlin-christmas-market-attack-victims/

  2. Carlos Danger says

    May 18, 2017 at 3:53 pm

    We (You & I) are on our own.Government will not help us. Prepare to defend yourself. speak up at every opportunity. Mock and deride those who would silence you.

  3. Paul N Silas says

    May 18, 2017 at 4:27 pm

    Does anyone know if the car ramming into a crowd in Times Square today was an IslamoNazi ( pig dung and sewage be upon them ) attack?

    • Wellington says

      May 18, 2017 at 5:06 pm

      Don’t know yet but The New York Post is reporting that this reprobate, one Richard Rojas by name and 26 years of age, told police that he wanted to kill people and was looking to be killed himself. This certainly fits the modus operandi of some Islamic terrorist loser (excuse the redundancy) but in and of itself does not confirm that this guy was yet anther Islamic terrorist asshole (no redundancy here) trying to implement Mo’s directive about the importance of terror in making Muzzies victorious, Mohammed himself saying, “I have been made victorious with terror.” {Bukhari Hadith 4.52.220}

      Verdict still out here on any Islamic connection but only a fool would think an Islamic link to this crime and tragedy today in the heart of Manhattan should not be considered right at the top of various reasons for why this subhuman did what he did. Yes, only a fool would think so.

      And so congratulations once again, Islam, on so rightfully being suspected as the culprit whenever terror occurs since almost all terror in the world today in the name of a belief system is perpetrated by a Muslim.. Even when Islam is not the culprit in a crime such as that which occurred in NYC today, it in no way exculpates the horrible belief system founded by that Arab fraud named Mohammed, of the Koraish tribe, who had thousands killed upon his orders, who never had a single sexual desire denied him by his hand puppet, Allah, and who is one of the most influential malevolent personalities in all of history.

      Yes, Islam, you deserve suspicion every time terror occurs because Mo’s creed has been rooted in terror from its outset. Quite the legacy to be sure. And you are indeed so deserving of such suspicion and hostility, disgusting creed which you are.

    • gravenimage says

      May 19, 2017 at 10:07 pm

      I think it is quite likely that this is Jihad. Certainly, we know it was not a car accident or drunk driving. It was quite deliberate.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    May 18, 2017 at 5:21 pm

    Merkel is as guilty as sin regarding taking part of the blame for that Islamic terror truck attack in Berlin last month. For her PC politics and polices led to that murderous jihad murder disaster. Furthermore, is should be made clear that the “holy book” of Islam, the Quran, [the Koran] gives instruction in the ways of the violent and deadly jihad. To give only one out of many examples of this from the Koran is Sura 47:4. Which teaches “Whenever you encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Let’s face it, using a large truck as a weapon, as the Muslim /jihadist did, can sure make a greater “slaughter among them” than a sword can.

    • James says

      May 18, 2017 at 6:05 pm

      Maybe her advisers told her that verses of that sort were limited to their immediate, Arabic, context, and had no present-day relevance, like the Biblical passages commanding the slaughter of the Canaanites.

      Just a guess.

    • Paul says

      May 18, 2017 at 6:24 pm

      Merkel came out with the utterly amazing and apparently awe-inspiring
      comment that Germans need to go to church and look at paintings there
      when replying to the justified concerns of a German woman. Remember
      that? Islamic critic Hamed Abdel Samad said that such actions didn’t really
      help Middle Eastern Christians when they’re being gunned down by the
      usual suspects. Lo and behold, it doesn’t prevent truck attacks either.
      Worst thing is that they’ll probably vote to keep the evil old hag in when it
      comes to the elections in September.

      • Terry says

        May 18, 2017 at 6:40 pm

        I read the other day that Merkel’s party won the local elections, including in the (Province?-not sure of the proper term-but Province should fit the bill) where some 20-25% of the population lives.

        She got ( figures I saw 33+%; next best party was about 30%.

        Not sure if those were the final totals, nor how that translates into the German parliamentary seats.

        • Paul says

          May 18, 2017 at 7:14 pm

          That’s not good. I’d love to be proved wrong come September
          but I just don’t see it. It really looks like the Germans have been successfully
          conditioned to despise themselves, which means her staying in power.
          The sky’s the bloody limit.

      • gravenimage says

        May 19, 2017 at 10:28 pm

        Paul wrote:

        Merkel came out with the utterly amazing and apparently awe-inspiring
        comment that Germans need to go to church and look at paintings there
        when replying to the justified concerns of a German woman.
        …………………….

        Was Merkel implying that Jihadists raping and murdering us are the same as the Holy Family and the early saints?

        What moral idiocy. Islam has nothing to do with race or ethnicity.

  5. gravenimage says

    May 19, 2017 at 9:41 pm

    German police missed chance to arrest Berlin truck jihadi months before his jihad massacre
    ……………………

    I can’t say I’m entirely surprised…

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