BERLIN MASSACRE: Anis Amri 'was on COCAINE AND ECSTASY when he rammed truck into crowd'
CHRISTMAS market truck killer Anis Amri may have been under the influence of cocaine and ecstasy when he drove into a yuletide crowd in Berlin, it was claimed today.
Security sources have claimed that Anis Amri was a drug addict
Amri, 24, was a low-life drug dealer in the German capital to support himself as he plotted terror for Islamic State. Now it is claimed he was also an addict.
The Welt am Sonntag newspaper, citing security sources, said intelligence services will report to the parliamentary control committee of the Bundestag on Monday that he may well have been high when he steered a hijacked lorry into the market on December 19, killing 12 and wounding dozens more.
He might have been under the influence of cocaine and ecstasy when he drove into the market
Only the automatic locking system on the vehicle's brakes brought it to a stop and prevented further carnage.
Italian police, who shot Amri dead in Milan on December 23, found no drugs on him or in his backpack. They discovered only 1,000 euros in cash, a train ticket from France, a Dutch mobile phone SIM card and shaving cream.
According to the German news report, drug dealers in Berlin have told intelligence officials that Amri was a "regular" consumer of drugs. And in his hometown in Tunisia he was arrested several times for drug offences in his youth.
Officials are probing whether his love of narcotics may have contributed to him falling off the watchlist of the security services; apparently the authorities could not believe a drug addict like him could also be a holy warrior for Isis.