German prosecutors probe whether attack suspect part of 'network'

German prosecutors said they were investigating whether the prime suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack, who was shot dead in Italy Friday, had accomplices. Federal prosecutor Peter Frank told reporters that there were many open questions in the probe into Tunisian national Anis Amri, who was killed when he opened fire on Italian police in Milan.
"It is very important for us to determine whether there was a network of accomplices... in the preparation or the execution of the attack, or the flight of the suspect," he said. Frank said investigators also hoped to learn whether the firearm Amri used against police in Milan was the same weapon he is believed to have used to shoot dead the Polish registered driver of the truck hijacked to mow down holiday revellers in Berlin.
Amri, 24, was accused of killing 12 people and wounding dozens more in Monday's assault on the Christmas market, which has been claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. Italy's interior minister Marco Minniti told reporters in Rome that Amri had been fatally shot after pulling out a pistol and firing at police who had stopped him for a routine identity check around 3:00 am (0200 GMT) near Milan's Sesto San Giovanni train station.
Identity checks had established "without a shadow of doubt" that the dead man was Amri, the minister said.