Berlin Christmas market killer smuggled his gun across the border to Italy and used it in the shoot-out in which he died.

Terrorist Anis Amri, who killed 12 people when he drove a lorry into the heart of a Christmas market in Berlin, managed to smuggle his weapon across borders to Italy.

Italian police have confirmed that the weapon Amri used in a shootout with police, during which he was shot dead, was the same as that used to kill Polish driver Lukasz Urban.

Urban was killed when the 24-year-old, who had pledged allegiance to ISIS, hijacked his vehicle.

Amri steered the lorry into the middle of a crowd, killing 12 and injuring 40.

A statement from forensic police in Italy said: 'The weapon that killed the driver of the Berlin massacre truck is the same as the one Anis Amri used to wound a policeman in Milan.'

Officers are now investigating whether the gun was used in 'other criminal episodes, in Italy or elsewhere'.

Bullets obtained from his gun.

Amri died on October 23 after he opened fire on two police officers who approached him outside a train station.

One officer, Christian Movio, was hit in the shoulder and was hospitalised.

Movio's colleague, Luca Scatà, shot Amri dead. 

The Tunisian terrorist had travelled from the Netherlands to France before heading to Italy.

 

 

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