Tunisian man, 40, who ‘may have been involved in Christmas market massacre’ is arrested after his number was found in terrorist Anis Amri’s phone
German prosecutors have said that the man's number was saved in the cellphone of Anis Amri
A MAN from Tunisia has been detained in connection with the Berlin truck attack which left 12 people dead.
The suspected attacker, Anis Amri, a rejected asylum seeker also from Tunisia, had the mobile phone number of the unnamed 40-year old stored in his telephone, prosecutors said.
Officials raided his home and business premises.
"Further investigations indicated that he could have been involved in the attack," said prosecutors, adding that he was arrested.
"To what extent suspicions against the arrested person will be hardened up remains to be seen after further investigation," said the prosecutors, adding they would decide by the end of Thursday whether to issue an arrest warrant for him.
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Twelve people died and 50 injured when a hijacked lorry ploughed into a Christmas Market in the German capital earlier this month.
Investigators are trying to determine whether Amri had a support network in planning and carrying out the attack, and in fleeing Berlin. They're also trying to piece together the route he took from Berlin to Milan.
Italian police have said Amri travelled through France, and French authorities said on Tuesday that he made a stop in the eastern French city of Lyon.
On Wednesday, Dutch authorities said they are checking whether he fled through the Netherlands, Germany's western neighbor.
"There are indications that he did travel via the Netherlands" on his way to Lyon, Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the Dutch national prosecutor's office, said.
De Bruin refused to provide further details on how and from where Amri might have travelled in the Netherlands.
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