Berlin massacre monster Anis Amri heard plotting ‘suicide attack’ by German spies months before market attack

BERLIN massacre monster Anis Amri was heard offering to carry out a “suicide attack” months ago by German intelligence officers.

It was claimed the fugitive was written off as an “errand boy” and was never arrested.

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The surveillance team allegedly heard Amri making the offer to a well-known preacher they were monitoring, according to Spiegel magazine.

Amri was also on a no-fly list banning him from the US. American security officials said Amri, who was 24 yesterday, had “direct contact” with ISIS.

They also claimed he had scoured the internet earlier this year looking for information on how to build a bomb.

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And it emerged last night he was jailed in 2010 for hijacking a truck like the one used to kill 12 and wound 56 Christmas market revellers.

Experts said he may have learned to drive HGVs after the theft in his Tunisian homeland.

Yesterday — as sources revealed his fingerprints had been found in the cab — Amri’s family there urged him to surrender.

From the home he grew up in at Oueslatia, his brother Abdelkader said: “I ask him to turn himself in. If it is proved he is involved, we dissociate ourselves from it.

“If he’s guilty, he deserves every condemnation. We reject terrorism and terrorists.”

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Germany has offered an £85,000 reward for fugitive Amri’s recapture.

Police arrested four of his known associates in Dortmund yesterday.

In Berlin, armed police swooped on a mall after a backpack was dumped but it was a false alarm.

Amri was arrested three times this year, once for a drug-related knife fight.

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He was due to be kicked out after his ­asylum application failed because of his fanaticism but got to stay as he had no Tunisian passport.

Yesterday it emerged that Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere made a chilling prediction of the terror.

He said in a meeting last week: “If we manage to get through the season without an attack on a Christmas market in ­Berlin, I will cross myself three times.”