Brother tells Berlin attack suspect to surrender

A brother of Tunisian Anis Amri, the prime suspect in a deadly truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market, urged him Thursday to surrender to ease pressure on his family.

“If he is listening to me, I tell him: ‘Present yourself’ (to the police), so the family can rest easier,” Abdelkader Amri told reporters in the Amri home town in Tunisia.

“If my brother is behind the attack, I say to him ‘You dishonour us’,” he said.
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But “I’m sure he can’t have done this,” he said, speaking outside the family home in Oueslatia, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Kairouan in eastern Tunisia.

A large truck ploughed through a crowd in Monday’s attack on a Christmas market that killed 11 people.

A 12th victim, the hijacked truck’s Polish driver, was found shot in the cab.

Prosecutors in Germany have issued a Europe-wide wanted notice for 24-year-old Anis Amri, offering a 100,000 euro reward for information leading to his arrest and warning he “could be violent and armed”.