Anis Amri, the man suspected of
Monday's attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in which 12
people died, was killed in a shootout at Sesto San Giovanni,
near Milan, on Friday, various investigative sources said.
He was identified on the basis of his appearance and
fingerprints, anti-terrorism sources in Milan said.
Amri arrived in Italy from France, according to
anti-terrorism Digos police.
He went from Chambery to Turin and then took a train to
Milan, where he arrived at around 1:00.
Then he went from Milan's Stazione Centrale to Sesto San
Giovanni, where he ran into two police officers at aorund 4:00
and was killed in a shoot-out and they tried to conduct a
routine stop-check, the sources said.
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