Berlin attacker Amri used 14 different identities

Berlin attacker Amri used

14 different identities

BERLIN (AP):

A police official said that German authorities knew of 14 different identities used by Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri.

Investigators said the 24-year-old Tunisian drove a truck into the market on December 19, killing 12 people. He was killed December 23 in a shootout with Italian police in a Milan suburb.

Amri came to Germany in mid-2015. Authorities later put him on a list of potentially violent Islamic extremists. Separately, he was investigated for receiving benefits simultaneously under two different identities.

The head of North Rhine-Westphalia state's criminal police, Dieter Schuermann, told regional lawmakers Thursday that authorities could not find evidence of possible attack plans that would stand up in court, news agency dpa reported. He said they "exhausted all legal powers to the limit to ward off potential dangers".