German politician Hugh Theodore Bronson, pictured, said terror suspect Anis Amris would have been deported long ago if it wasn't for a liberal 'ideological agenda'

A senior German politician has blamed the Christmas terror attacks on 'institutional political correctness', arguing that the suspect – a known ISIS fanatic who was on a deportation list – would not have been free to act if police had enforced the law.

The suspect, Anis Amri, 23, who was being monitored by police, would have been deported long ago if it wasn't for a liberal 'ideological agenda', he told MailOnline.

Hugh Theodore Bronson, the deputy leader of the Alternative For Deutschland party (AfD), said that German deportation law was ignored because the authorities were afraid of offending Muslims.

'The law as it stands is not being implemented,' he said. 'If it was, 12 people would still be alive, 48 people would not be in hospital, and there would have been no attack on Monday.'

Referring to the fact that the prime suspect, Anis Amri, had been arrested three times in Germany and was a known ISIS fanatic with weapons training who was due to be deported, Bronson added: 'There is a refusal by the authorities to implement German law.

'We are being too lenient in our implementation of the law. You can call it political correctness, you can call it an ideological agenda, but it cost 12 people their lives.

It is understood that terror suspect Anis Amri (pictured) – who has a €100,000 reward on his head – has used at least six different names and three different nationalities

Manhunt: The ISIS killer behind Germany's worst terror attack since 1980 on Monday night has been given an 18 hour head start after police bungled the probe - Amri's blood may have been in the cab and believe the driver is injured

German authorities have revealed there is a 100,000 euro (£84,000) reward for information leading to his capture

'I would be as bold as to say that if German law would be implemented as it should be, this attack wouldn't have happened. This person would not have been able to plough a truck into 12 people and seriously injure 48.'

His remarks came as it emerged that the Tunisian terror suspect accused of Monday's Berlin truck attack which killed 12 people spent four years in an Italian jail for burning down a school.

It is understood that Amri – who has a €100,000 reward on his head – has used at least six different names and three different nationalities.

Link? A Facebook profile in his name shows 'likes' linked to Tunisian terror group Ansar al-Sharia, a Tunisian group with followers linked to extremists who murdered 22 at Tunis' Bardo Museum in March 2015 and then 39 tourists at a beach resort in Sousse

Security services were aware that the 23-year-old had tried to recruit an accomplice for a terror plot, but still he remained at large, it has emerged.

Amri had been under covert surveillance for much of the time since he arrived in Germany but was still able to carry out the deadly attack, security sources have said.

'Nobody in Germany can say what they really mean without looking over their shoulder,' Bronson said. 'It is just like in Communist East Germany. Merkel tells us that we can easily integrate more than a million migrants in a year, but everyone knows we can't.'