Berlin Attack Accomplice Expelled: Questions Surround Moroccan Agent’s Role

The German media Focus accuses the authorities of wanting, through this rapid expulsion, to conceal the involvement of Bilel Ben Ammar, because he would be a Moroccan intelligence agent, the same services that had warned them of the imminent attack before it occurred. This two-way game can be explained by the fact that Bilel Ben Ammar is posing as an extremist to the terrorists he approaches. So he has to play the game and the help he provided to Anis Amri is part of it.

Thus we can read on the Daily Item website the response of the German Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, when a journalist showed him a boarding pass that allegedly belonged to Bilel Ben Ammar: "The name on the boarding pass does not correspond to any of the 12 pseudonyms used by Ben Ammar, according to the German authorities." In short, the German authorities hastily expelled a man who has 12 known identities and who dined the night before with one of the most dangerous terrorists the country has ever known.

Horst Seehofer also stated that his office had examined the circumstances of Ben Ammar’s expulsion (officially a simple Tunisian citizen) and concluded that the authorities had acted in accordance with the law.

Let us recall that Anis Amri is a Tunisian who had, on board a stolen truck, rammed the crowd of the Christmas market in the center of Berlin, and that he killed 12 people and injured more than 60. He was killed by the police a few days later in Italy (Ben Ammar -if that is his real name- would have helped him flee according to the German media Focus). The Islamic State claimed the attack.