attack on the bride, shide plots, christmas markets, and flock. i'm punch had lots of talk a game hunt who's on wood. curtis don assist german police after absolutely, we'd help to of course, shoot these schools that have trained terrorists are still active in europe in over there, a threat to europe and give a few. they're certainly a threat to europe too, because they have no chance of a normal life here and their villages and provinces in iraq need, if they want to survive. and the only thing left for them to do is leave the country forbid you believe. so it's possible the terrorist network continues to be as angel ha, may. e z? great. in 2017 burnham unveiled a memorial at the start of the attack, but it provides little comfort to the survivors and victims. relatives had it had

to endure constant revelations about mistakes made by authorities who failed to prevent the attack. as well as the ongoing uncertainty about who else may have been involved. for almost 5 years with kept in touch with astrid placene whose father was killed near tech. it didn't come v 6 this we have a fight. what's essential to me is that we can be certain who was responsible for facilitating the terror attack and how it came about it is to stand the come that i'm having trouble talking right now. it's not just the sorrow of losing her father . i seen told us the pet she clarification of the states. various missteps is also gut wrenching. she's brought together other relatives and people injured in the attack to talk through all they know the supposedly good ones on how we try with the strength we have left to process the terror attack. however, we can in to find in her piece in a waterfall. if that is even possible,

lucas and come we went in search of annas, i'm res. i asked connections. we began by following the trail of the groups to fact our leader in germany. the preacher avo vela in 2016 german police rated this mosque in the northern city of hilda's hon. investigate is found evidence that the man gave his blessings for the christmas market attack plan to a private audience. something a blue, valid denied, 5 weeks before the attack, abu val are suspected to be germany's top i escalate at is arrested and latest sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison on terrorism charges. he declined an interview, but a man who worked with above allah and who was a close associate of honest amory in the year leading up to the christmas market attack. did a great to talk with us for the condition for interviewing boban. s was that his

face would not be showed. he's currently serving an 8 year sentence at a prison in western germany. for security reasons were separated by bullet proof glass. bob m. s. is believed to have brought young muslims to ins, france including many who would later carry out suicide attacks. he claimed to have no idea. amory would turn to tara ron redone. were you surprised to say the news on television? in december 2016, you were already in prison at the time, obviously not to your house or shall. i regarded him as unpredictable. but i didn't see that coming yet. i didn't think for a moment. he do something as crazy as that. i never thought he'd carry out an attack here. the officer ball angela, huma aneice amory got involved and crime at an early age is too busy. in

hometown, he dropped out of school at 15 after a series of thefts and drug related offenses. i'm re went into hiding from place in 2011 smugglers got him as far as land producer in italy. not long after he set fire to refugee a shelter in sicily. man was sentenced to full years in prison. there he encountered other islamists. amory arrived in germany in 2015 the same here as hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers at a dorman mosque he came into contact with the islamist group that included boban, s. and ios is alleged later in gemini album, viola. i was unable to sell honest armory could read the koran very well, which surprised me that he gave the impression of some one who wanted to be cool. who didn't know anything about his lamb. but when he read, he read really beautifully adhering to all the rules. i was quite taken aback.

father, simply by amy barrage at least 15 supporters of the group were brought to our highest battle grounds. several died. some of them in suicide attacks. among them were brothers, kevin, and mark kay, from germany's rule valley. they carried out attacks in iraq that killed more than a 100 people. radicalized by unrestrained baba miss misty. what's your view of the violence displayed by i as in recent years as young as a lesson yon brought us as with the army our shop we shall go from. i've always wondered why they carried out such gruesome executions. and i thought maybe they were just trying to intimidate certain people, but i didn't want to think about it. i didn't really engage with it and i didn't want to see it shortly. also mostly unto boban, s claims,

he was unaware that his friend alice unreal, was plotting violence. despite the fact that henri made no secret of his international contacts and tara plans that, according to an informant, sent to infiltrate the group by german investigators. the informant also reported that army wanted to acquire a kalashnikov rifles and searched online for how to assemble bombs, apparently unaware boban s blamed the radicalization of his friend amory on the police informant. that they're off by jojo. he used to talk a lot about various attack scenarios award, for example, slashing people with a knife, blowing them up. puzzled. he kept trying to talk about it. whenever it came to attack scenarios, he'd start talking as though he was trying to encourage people to carry them out, leg azurie multiple to living, a police informant acting as an agitator. he later,

vehemently denied declines. 6 months before the attack, a german authorities received dramatic surveillance intel am rates suspected, the informant, and threatened dog to the phone to kill him, to slaughter him like a peak. according to the region audio recording ganglia, i'm re maintained contact with ios fighters in libya. they are telegram chats from very early on woodside shelter. if you think about it, loads of people left the country to go to syria as good. there's always some one among them. you know, perhaps a family member, i mean, doesn't, but from the look on his face, i thought he'd probably just gotten a cold that someone he knew had been killed, or that had been a drone strike through long dead i, as fighters and armories family, his extremist network already took root in his community, growing up into his young a 3 hour drive from the capital tunis. i'm his home town mosque was a known place,

which he had us the time from the year 2012, several, he had strong armies. p, a group left to fight in his combat science. among them i'm race friend, bill l. carby, as well as the brothers while lead and car lead abdallah to from the chinese in sellers prescript, died in suicide attacks in libya. the 3rd associate and notorious highest executioner, is thought to have been queued lighter fulton in syria, another childhood friend of unread, i'm in copy, and to other members of the abd dolly family later supported him as he plotted his terror attack in germany. a year before the christmas market attack, investigate is listened in on phone conversations between ambry and i'm and copy and ashley, if a dolly copy and a dolly, which will come from an ice base in libya, discussing plans for suicide attack. they said by price ourselves for our success.

amajanae had lightest, amelia, high for lies. amandola had been amid sounds of combat in the back. lot of al, could you say about him on the lie a hide? do i do? i is he a lie? did the same time i'm result contact online with safe, another abdallah relative working with i. as in syria and an acquaintance from back . com. i'm re evidently hope safe could help find someone seen you who might order an attack on re deleted his facebook messenger data ahead of the christmas market attack. bought it's possible, his childhood friend facilitated an introduction to a powerful contact we discovered that unrestrained is connected online with fight is associated with one of germany's formerly most wanted terrorists, the berlin, ex wrapper dentist qu spit who left jimmy f. i. s. battlefields

who spoke to seen he on the sidelines of a koran distribution event in berlin in 2012. at the time he was a key i as feca, recruiting young muslims. shortly before he disappeared into the fray, he issued this threat to chancellor miracle and the interior and foreign ministers . you are waging jihad on our countries. we will bring the war to your countries. jihad has clearly arrived in germany, one year before the berlin terror attack. his woods sound like an official ice declaration of wool on gemini bush above it. rudolfo vianza was in vehicle for you got us regardless of your home, could put wrapped about terrorist properties, allegedly preparing to attack germany, presumably no empty threat. because meanwhile, a gym and counter terrorism unit noticed phone calls between crispin and islamists

in berlin. at least to me to he also reported to crisper, dispatched a team of terrors to germany, a lead which authorities took seriously or vision of what role did danny's crew sped play, leading up to the attack flock. there was this suspicion at the time that he sent people to germany from syria healing orthodontal clerk. that remains the case. if he was a very charismatic person and knew how to command an audience, we believed he was a leading figure in this particular griff. no question at what he actually set into motion. i can't say for sure, for he thought husband's contact. sadly sigh, donnie was a soldier in a 2 nisan ante terri unit born in the same place as amory. he evidently changed sides. lottie disguised as a refugee. he came to germany, as one of the leaders of coast was purported tara tame or

another, was built in a marsh. he would like to make friends with m ray. investigators noticed that once he arrived in gem, neat st. donnie, so content with who spent in syria several times it came to the attention of investigators on several occasions for one g to evidence of potential bomb attacks. 3 tapped phone conversations, men, this can be heard saying they will blow up berlin and burn the germans. armory and the t lead is of the suspected terror team psy, donnie, and been a mom met at a mosque and berlin's temple huff district and became friends for years. the place of worship had been viewed as a gathering point for ice activists. the mom had been under investigation for years . he suspected of rallying fighters to the i. s corps,

something the mom denies. his son translates. good gun. you monica. he. how can someone who lives here have his children here. he walks here has his mommy and as job here, like all for that, ask people to fight against this country due to insufficient staffing at berlin state criminal police office. the case was shell for a long while before being closed with no concrete conclusions. i'm re so johnny and ben a mom stayed on the investigators right up, but at the time police couldn't prove the 3 committed any serious crimes. this meant the group's back of former wrapper, dennis coast that was probably still pulling strings from syria. or i'm re increasingly began devoting his time to the fusillade mosque in the berlin district of mala, beat, police believe the spot to be an elias outpost in a german capital armory periodic. he lived in the rooms of the mosque. he

slept, prayed, and partied here. it's not known whether this was where he kept the weapon he would lay to use in the attack. in any case, this is where amory encountered a group of hard line. i asked supporters, including many individuals known to police and labeled as threats to the state or however, he was evidently preparing for what he believed to be a holy war. what may look like, a light hearted gathering is gravely serious. they shout, god is greatest, and pledged an oath of allegiance to the leader of the group, calling itself his landing state. oh, bernard, fog, a frequent visitor to the fuselage mask previously prayed and spent the night here with andre. the former left wing terrorist converted to islam during a long prison sentence. folk walked us through foot each. we were able to fume

after the most was shut down. but this should lead to the basement right there. what was there? a yellow wall in the basement, there was a kitchenette caucasian with a small counter top frantic rosy. the showers were there, loose, yakima when you'd start. yes, if you go that way, you'll find the cooking area league. the larger bedroom is on the left love home. the house wasn't just where g hottest slept. over the years civil operatives was sentenced to years in prison for collecting money and military equipment from the so called islamic state or for recruiting and sending flashes to syria form. why did henri become a terrorist? germany had taken him in, offered him food and a roof over his head. hadn't he received plenty of chances here?

though the solution so frankly, eel, that's not quite true. m a, but he was someone who couldn't find his place in society. virgil was confronted with the official direct him that he should just get out of the country which lost his lamp. and that's exactly what would have happened to him on those at the before watched on the moon. people facing that you respond either by giving out bob or acting out toughly. explain. odd to her june. i'm re found accomplices in the fuselage mosque such as the caucasian islamist, michael, mit ali. see all the french convert clement. thee, who had been in contact with the initiators of the paris attacks, a prior latent analysis of emory's phone suggested he was on the constant lookout for potential

targets for an attack, such as berlin's ober bound bridge, which is also part of the city subway system. the berlin cathedral and chancellor michaels residence also about 7 weeks before the christmas market attack, he scouted a busy shopping mall in berlin, squeezen from an area. the target was meant to make a statement and result in as many dis as possible, was planned as part of the series of devastating attacks timed to happen simultaneously in paris and brussels. investigators believe the necessary explosives being kept by one of amerys accomplices in an apartment on the outskirts of berlin. when the police came knocking, at least one suspect managed to escape over the balcony unrecognized. there was no trace of the explosives. police hoped to find. later on res french

accomplice was arrested in mo, say he had 3 kilograms of t a t p. in his possession, the same explosive used in the paris attacks apparently unsettled by the police. raid armory turned away from his fussy letter campuses. but the mosque remained an important base in the weeks before the attack. there was a hidden camera in the police station across the street that filled the mosque round the clock. but these images would no longer being analyzed, not in the weeks, days and hours before the attack. security agents did not notice that not far away . amory was recording a video, confession climbing responsibility for the attack and send her to i yes. in syria. they also didn't realize that right before the attack he likely came here to pray.

a close friend of henri told us that the last time i saw an east shortly before the attack or the same as always, i would be a bit more withdrawn. he didn't talks, i'm up here later, but otherwise he seemed relaxed around. but he was a bit warmer and hugged longer than usual. but he also said see you next week of a heavy that wasn't supposed to look like a good bye. oh, the plan of action for the chair attack was lighted, provided by someone henri didn't know personally, but whom he was put in touch with through ice contacts in syria and friends in berlin, including the former rappa, dennis crisp. it was in his video likely from the end of 2016, shortly before the attack hospital wrapped instructions for how to carry out an attack with a truck he said, steal the vehicle or take it by force and speed into a public celebration or marketplace. just what happened at the attack on the

christmas market. the evening before the attack ambry met his friend from hospice, supported tara chain. bill l been a mom. the restaurant security cameras showed them having an animated conversation. the following day, the day of the attack on multiple subway surveillance cameras, 3 investigators would lay to believe they recognized armies. friend ben amadi, near the crime scene was he, there been a mom denies his allegations. but on his phone, investigators even found pitches of the attack site, which been a mom, had apparently scope down months in advance. it see

exec spot when unrelated speed into the crowd, and yet investigators would deem the evidence to flimsy. i am his friend, been a mar and the man apparently sent by co spirit psy. donny wood to porter a few weeks after the attack. the fact that others who working behind the scenes went free without any further investigation of pulled opposition. politicians in the parliamentary investigative committee as well as survivors and those who lost loved ones in the attack. green parliamentarian irina mc college had trained police officer, an f. d. p. member benjamin strasser, met bereaved relative astern, pacin, and 1st responder gearhart savanski. both consider the lawmakers, allies in the fight against the governments and intelligence agencies. silence. we how do you feel? now standing here after 3 or 4 years of investigation i on oft, well, it was god,

i know who exactly is fighting for all right. who wants to shed light on the matter that you could sense it? and it was really important for us to see and recognize that we can in filing law, become defeated above all, i believe we were able to disprove many of the security agencies initial theories through our inquiry, which glad to soon as i said in the end, there are still this lasting uncertainty and mission. eda, we may not have managed to shed light on every single fascinating but ceilings visor directly. alison's lift sibling, williams hunger in was of i had to get used to the voices in the background that kept interjecting whenever something didn't match their expectations. in the past. those were tense situations where i thought to myself, please not now i need to know 30th i was so disappointed when the processor didn't deliver what i expected, thus, could pass at vestment of advertising, but that's why it was so terrible that they withheld. so many files from us, or delivered them in such a state that they couldn't be read properly. acting funny,

then we couldn't prepare the way we would have liked. he didn't fight for white glove young. i'm school dable, bonag spewed. well, donna, i think we covered a of ground and that you, with your experience as a police officer and me as a lawyer. our background certainly taught us how to question witnesses and discern if they're not being upfront. an excellent will for gemacht with the i stopped corners, uneasy, routed, as i'm best, it's best described as chronic amnesia at times. it was unbelievable. how little recollection eye witnesses had no fun. i had the impression that was often taken advantage of that they were allowed to testify or that was part of their memory had been wiped or as of an old from the im, complex time as well as far on on. his armory was many things, but no lone wolf once going soundly. reasonably sure we were mostly concerned with the question of whether others were involved. these people might still be alive when they might still be at large. the fact that they didn't look into this more carefully to see if other people were involved in the attack is

a huge failure of december 19th, 2016724 pm. on his armory, hijacked, the truck, killed the driver and headed towards fright, shide plants. his video confession was already in syria with the eye as propaganda to vision. it was sitting there for weeks, waiting to be published. i'm re chatted via misinger with his so called mentor a contact he presumably made through his childhood friend in libya. that man provided remote support during the attack. inside the track, i'm re sent his mentor at peaches showing only his hand and the tip of his red sneaker. he reported a close. i'm in the car now. god is great. pray for me. just

after 8 pm, the alleged love her to tracy killed 13 people and injured over a 100 some severely. one of them was gear, had savanski, his whole life was turned upside down. instead of running away, he was one of the 1st responders who tried to save lives and watched people die unable to work for a long time. after 5 years, he's too haunted by the question why? so that he sees a specialist therapist to the line a router has been treating some 20 terror victims for years. some of here were at the christmas market breakers definitely in a lot of a her i talk a lot in my sleep in florida and sometimes i get up in my sleep i and scream for someone to go there and take care of them. dorothy m to see you're welcome at the tile in gainesville, i must have tried to coordinate things for sort of and i re lift this experience at night when i'm asleep. when he leaves visiting out and nots in trough,

i've heard about victims of other attacks and girls got like this guitar asked, who was playing in a ball and a bomb went off. guitarists was an if all the other band members die, flippant madrid of a few items. he was the only one who survived. i believed it would just let it happen. it's completely fine. okay, though that they seemed okay. no fuzzy. and then 30 years later he was tuning his guitar and a string snapped and he burst into tears of the that's exactly what it means. and that's why you're still affect it often scientifically speaking on after a terrorist attack. and even after a certain number of therapy sessions, it's not possible to be discharged fully healed. that would just do more harm because it stays with you your entire life until you draw your last breath. so that's an option. so unanswered questions and inner turmoil 5 years after the attack and savanski is not alone in this hermana is as god's shrew to some what the

investigations on cover is very painful for the indian cloud. some people lose their faith in justice and humanity because they feel alone you abandon either and stick to lawson does, has the my, as most victims of the bright shide plots attack are filled with bitterness forbidden. and that leads straight to a severe depression, said tall and disclosable soon ant says could help. when a summer morning in 2021 victims of the attack are on their way to the gym. and parliament, with the henri investigative committee is presenting its final report. bringing the political process to close to it. of course it hurts mine and constantly to us. the investigation is still not over. it's still not 100 percent clear. what happened yet? germany's federal police and intelligence agency declined to comment. old is the attack. his contacts shown in the still well known to german or international

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