The radical Islamist Ben Ammar is a Moroccan secret agent
Attack on Berlin Christmas market government pushed Amri’s confidants off to cover up his involvement in assassination attempt
The German security authorities have apparently deported a close confidant of the Berlin Christmas Market assassin Anis Amri to cover up his involvement in the December 2016 attack with twelve dead and more than 60 injured.
This is the result of secret investigation documents available to the FOCUS. The radical Islamist Bilel Ben Ammar is obviously an agent of the Moroccan secret service, who was to be protected from prosecution in Germany by deportation. The North African intelligence service DGST had repeatedly warned the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Intelligence Service about the radicalization of Anis Amri and his plans for attacks.
Film from Breitscheidplatz kept under lock and key
Bilel Ben Ammar had met with Amri the evening before the assassination, carried out with a heavy semitruck. A camera mounted on a skyscraper at Breitscheidplatz filmed for FOCUS information how Amri got out of the truck after the death drive and searched the distance. At this moment, the film, previously kept under lock and key, also shows a person with the appearance of Ben Ammar beating a man with a square timber to the side of his head in order to clear the way for the fleeing Amri.
The attacked man is still in a coma. Two hours after the assassination, Ben Ammar photographed the devastated Christmas market and sent the photos to a previously unidentified telephone number.
Only nine days after the attack, a political decision was made that Amri’s presumed helper must leave the country. “There is considerable interest on the part of the security authorities and the Federal Ministry of the Interior that the deportation should be successful,” according to an e-mail dated 28 December 2016 to the Federal Police, available to FOCUS.
On 1 February 2017, two hours after midnight, Ben Ammar, who was arrested the following day, was taken out of his cell in the Moabit JVA by the state police and flown to Tunisia via Frankfurt. At that time, the terror and murder investigations of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office were still in full swing.
“Obviously a key figure.”
The Green and Linkspartei factions are now demanding that Ben Ammar be questioned in the Bundestag’s Amri inquiry committee. Konstantin von Notz, Vice-Chairman of the Green Party, told FOCUS: “Bilel Ben Ammar is obviously a key figure in the Amri case and thus also in the attack on Breitscheidplatz. The fact that he was pushed off so head over heels before the heaviest Salafist attack in Germany was cleanly determined is irritating to the maximum.”
Martina Renner, who sits on the Amri investigative committee for the Left Party, said: “The deportation of a possible accomplice of Amri in a night and fog action is a great mystery that has not been solved politically. If Ben Ammar spyed for a foreign secret service with the knowledge of German authorities, that would be further proof of the fatal condition of our domestic secret service.”
22/02/2019
