Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri used 14 different identities after coming to Germany in 2015
- On 19 December Anis Amri drove a stolen Polish lorry into a Christmas market
- 12 people were killed and Amri was shot dead by Italian police four days later
Anis Amri (pictured) was known by 14 different names in Germany and was apparently claiming benefits under two identities
The Berlin Christmas market attacker, Anis Amri, had 14 different identities in Germany, according to police.
Investigators say the 24-year-old Tunisian, who drove a lorry into the market on December 19, killing 12 people, had come to Germany in the summer of 2015.
He was killed on December 23 in a shootout with Italian police in Milan.
The authorities put him on a list of potentially violent Islamic extremists several months after he arrived in Germany.
He was separately being investigated for receiving benefits simultaneously under two different identities.
The head of North Rhine-Westphalia state's criminal police, Dieter Schürmann, told regional lawmakers today the authorities could not find evidence of possible attack plans that would stand up in court.
A man walks past flowers close to the Christmas Market at the Breitscheid square in Berlin, Germany, where hundreds of tributes remain to Amri's victims
He told the DPA news agency they had 'exhausted all legal powers to the limit to ward off potential dangers.'
Twelve people died and 48 were injured after Amri, who had pledged allegiance to ISIS, hijacked Polish trucker Lukasz Urban's vehicle and steered it into a crowd of shoppers.
He fled to Italy, via Holland, after bungling German police arrested an innocent Pakistani asylum seeker.
Meanwhile it has emerged that the Scania lorry he used to commit the massacre may end up as a ghoulish exhibit at the House of History museum in Bonn.
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