Berlin terror attack: Tunisian suspect was investigated over earlier terror plot, released and could not be deported

An international manhunt is under way for an “armed and dangerous” Tunisian man with ties to Islamic extremists who has been identified as a suspect in the Berlin lorry attack which left 12 dead.
As the manhunt continues, it has been revealed that the prime suspect for the Berlin massacre was under covert surveillance for months as a possible terrorist threat until police let him slip through their grasp earlier this month.
Anis Amri, 24, a Tunisian asylum seeker who arrived in Germany last year, was investigated for “preparing a serious crime endangering national safety”, involving funding the purchase of automatic weapons for use in a terrorist attack.
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