A Romanian lorry driver tried to alert German and French police last week after recognizing Tunisian Anis Amri, who was wanted in connection with the December 21 attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, as the suspect asked him for directions to the motorway to Lyon, Spanish daily El Mundo reports.
The Romanian driver, who has been living in the Spanish city of Girona since 2001, says he encountered Amri last Wednesday at around 10:45 a.m. at a service area on the A20, some four hours' drive from Paris, between Limoge and Brive-la-Gaillarde. He told El Mundo journalists that Amri had come to the door of his cab, where he was resting, asking for directions, and that as soon as he had realized who he had spoken to, he phoned police in Germany and France.
The Romanian driver presented the journalists the phone bill of December 21 to prove he had called the police, and deplored the fact that the authorities had been slow to comprehend the gravity of the situation.
Anis Amri was shot dead on December 23 by police in Milan during a routine identity check. Police said that they found a train ticket on his body proving that he had traveled into Italy from the French town of Chambéry.
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