While the media continues to call the Muslim terrorist attack in Germany a “track attack,” more terrorists, including Anis Amri’s nephew has been arrested. The media still isn’t even calling this a terrorist attack.
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The nephew of Anis Amri, the man suspected of being responsible for the attack on a Berlin Christmas market, has been arrested in Tunisia, the country’s Interior Ministry said Saturday.
He is one of three men being held in prison on “suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization and connections with terrorist offenses,” according to the ministry.
A statement from the ministry said Amri and his nephew had communicated with each other via the Telegram app, an encrypted messaging service.
Amri asked the nephew to pledge allegiance to ISIS, the ministry said, citing a confession from the nephew. The statement did not name the nephew.
The ministry also said Amri was in touch with his nephew and sent him money through a third party after asking him to join the “Abu Al Wala” cell operating for ISIS in Germany.
According to TAP, a Tunisian state-run news agency, the three men are between 18 and 27.
Earlier Saturday, a senior Italian counterterrorism official told CNN’s Nina dos Santos “had all the hallmarks of being on the run alone” when he was killed in a shootout with two Italian police officers in Milan on Friday.