ISIS attacker Anis Amri was ‘high on ecstasy and cocaine’ when he ploughed truck into Berlin Christmas market
Cops probe new line of enquiry that the terrorist was a drug dealer and addict
ISIS truck killer Anis Amri may have been high on a cocktail of cocaine and ecstasy when he drove into a yuletide crowd at a Christmas market in Berlin, it was claimed today.
Amri, 24, was a low-life drug dealer in the German capital to support himself as he plotted terror for ISIS. Now it is claimed he was also an addict.
The German Welt am Sonntag newspaper, citing security sources, said intelligence services will report to the parliamentary control committee of the Bundestag on Monday that he may well have been high when he steered a hijacked lorry into the market on December 19, killing 12 and wounding dozens more.
Only the automatic locking system on the vehicle's brakes brought it to a stop and prevented further carnage.
Italian police, who shot Amri dead in Milan on December 23, found no drugs on him or in his backpack.
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They discovered only 1,000 euros in cash, a train ticket from France, a Dutch mobile phone SIM card and shaving cream.
According to the German news report, drug dealers in Berlin have told intelligence officials that Amri was a "regular" consumer of drugs. And in his hometown in Tunisia he was arrested several times for drug offences in his youth.
Officials are probing whether his love of narcotics may have contributed to him falling off the watchlist of the security services; apparently the authorities could not believe a drug addict like him could also be a holy warrior for ISIS.
The news comes just days after it was revealed that authorities knew of 14 identities being used by the Berlin truck killer.
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