• This CCTV screenshot released Wednesday by the Belgian Federal Police on demand of Brussels' king prosecutor, shows alleged suspect Anis Amri walking in the Brussels-North station on Dec. 21, where he arrived at around 7 p.m. and left at around 9 p.m. Tunisian suspect Anis Amri smuggled the weapon used in the Berlin Christmas market attack across borders to Italy and used it in the shootout in which he was killed, Italian police said Wednesday. Meanwhile, German police were trying to establish if a 26-year-old Tunisian — who has been arrested in Berlin on an unrelated charge — was an accomplice of Amri. | BELGIAN FEDERAL POLICE AND BELGA / AFP-JIJI
    This CCTV screenshot released Wednesday by the Belgian Federal Police on demand of Brussels' king prosecutor, shows alleged suspect Anis Amri walking in the Brussels-North station on Dec. 21, where he arrived at around 7 p.m. and left at around 9 p.m. Tunisian suspect Anis Amri smuggled the weapon used in the Berlin Christmas market attack across borders to Italy and used it in the shootout in which he was killed, Italian police said Wednesday. Meanwhile, German police were trying to establish if a 26-year-old Tunisian — who has been arrested in Berlin on an unrelated charge — was an accomplice of Amri. | BELGIAN FEDERAL POLICE AND BELGA / AFP-JIJI

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BERLIN – 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.

Police on Tuesday evening searched the living quarters of the man identified as Bilel A. after he was found to have had dinner with Anis Amri a day before Amri steered a truck through the market on Dec. 19, spokeswoman Frauke Koehler said.

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