A German minister has admitted security forces knew the suspected Berlin attacker was a terror threat but failed to detain or deport him before he ploughed a lorry into a Christmas market.….. the Tunisian man had already been put under investigation over a previous attack plot but missing paperwork meant he could not be ejected from Germany.

From one bungle to another, with some authorities not taking the jihad threat seriously enough, even when it was right in front of their faces.

Anis Amri spent four years in jail in Italy for burning down a school, and then left the country for Germany last year. Since then, he was arrested at least three times and was identified as an ISIS supporter who received weapons training, but authorities kept on losing him; now it’s revealed that missing paperwork precluded him from being kicked out of Germany.

Local police launched an investigation into the suspect over a separate attack plot earlier this year and handed their information to Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), which shut the investigation in September.

When asked why Amri was not arrested, a spokesperson for the North Rhine-Westphalia interior ministry replied: “I don’t know, ask Berlin.”

Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that it would be “particularly sickening” if the Berlin jihad attacker turned out to be refugee. Not only does it look as if her nightmare has come true, but it is also “particularly sickening” to discover the level of incompetence of German authorities, allowing for Amri’s deadly truck attack.

Berlin attack: German authorities investigated Anis Amri over previous terror plot but failed to deport suspect, by Lizzie Dearden, Independent, December 21, 2016: