The Trail of the Suspect in the Berlin Attack

By GREGOR AISCH, K.K. REBECCA LAI, SARAH ALMUKHTAR and SERGIO PEÇANHA DEC. 19, 2016

Anis Amri, a 24-year-old Tunisian and the main suspect in the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, was killed in a shootout with police officers in Milan early Friday.RELATED ARTICLE

Mr. Amri opened fire after a routine stop in Milan.Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The Italian police found train tickets in Mr. Amri's pockets indicating that he had traveled from Chambéry, France, to Turin, Italy, and arrived in Milan at 1 a.m. on Friday. It remains unclear how he got to Chambéry from Berlin.

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By The New York Times

The Truck’s Path Through a
Crowded Christmas Market in Berlin

At least 12 people were killed at a Christmas market in central Berlin when a truck driver jumped the sidewalk and plowed into a crowd.

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Astoria

Area where truck

came to a stop

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Kant Street

Budapester Street

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Memorial Church

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By The New York Times; satellite image by Google

The truck could be seen afterward on one edge of the market after having traveled about 250 feet through wooden huts used as stands, packed with holiday shoppers and tourists. A tangle of boards, baubles and evergreen garlands still dangled from the smashed glass of the truck's windshield early Tuesday.

Police stand around the truck near the Christmas market. Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters

The police said they arrested a man near the scene who was suspected of driving the truck, which had been stolen from a worksite in Poland about a two-hour drive from Berlin. A passenger, identified by the authorities as a Polish national, was found dead in the cab. The arrested man was released on Tuesday and no charges were brought forward. Mr. Amri’s fingerprints and identity document were found inside a tractor-trailer.

Workers remove the truck, which is surrounded by debris from the Christmas market. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

The Christmas market was set up around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, one of the most symbolic sites in Berlin, in the heart of the city. The church’s jagged spire was bombed in World War II, but it was not rebuilt, as a reminder of the war.